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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
schedule can be as important to education outcomes as its budget or strategic plan. The secret to making the schedule a tool for school improvement is to approach schedule design not as a technical task, centered on making everything fit... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
despite cost-effective FinTech alternatives, many European migrant communities continued to rely on expensive money transfer operators for monthly remittances averaging around 200 per migrant. This puzzling trend emerged due to two key... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
could continue our success as part of Cisco, but it meant I had to build Altiostar from scratch,” he says. By all accounts, Dahod has met the challenge. Altiostar is still in stealth mode, but the press recently reported that it had... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
Consumer Neuroscience: Advances in Understanding Consumer Psychology By: Karmarkar, Uma R., and Carolyn Yoon Abstract—While the study of consumer behavior has been enriched by improved abilities to generate new insights, many of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
mortgage lender are considering how to bring the bank's restructuring to a successful conclusion as the country's economy continues to suffer from the impact of the 2001-2002 currency crisis and default. As the bank's competitors, many of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
this should be is a puzzle, since when firms are doing well they have all the resources (financial, physical, and intellectual) to continue to be successful. Yet the evidence is that most organizations fail. Drawing on recent advances in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms: within-firm productivity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
with increased risk of primary cesarean delivery and maternal morbidity. Other proactive management practices may be associated with decreased risk of prolonged length of stay, indicating a potential opportunity to safely improve labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
underrepresented communities. As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, executives worked to continue these efforts, despite supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and erratic consumer spending. Beyond the moral imperatives of confronting... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
from the examples set by these world-class athletes, who are never satisfied, even at the top of their games and seemingly at the peak of their performance. Like Phelps and Nowitzki, two examples of organizations that excel at continuous... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
"and I had always intended to go into public service. In fact, I enrolled at HBS to learn leadership skills to that end." Although his gubernatorial campaign was ultimately unsuccessful, Checchi was able to raise issues he feels are critically important to America:... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
for revising or proving shortcomings in the model. Nevertheless, it continues to influence fiscal and monetary policy across the globe from time to time. "Did the economic experiment in the United States during the past four years show us... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
tailored for their situation. Artificial intelligence should enable better solutions. Is the market ready to support your solution? As more of the world gets digitized, “datafication” (our ability to capture data from many aspects of the world have never been... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
eventually evolved from manufacturing motorcycles to inventing a revolutionary light business jet—fulfilling a lifelong dream to improve mobility and exemplifying the longevity and continuous innovation that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte
as a Product Engineer in the Devices group on the hardware side of Microsoft. I worked on supporting the launch of products such as Surface Laptop, XBOX, and Surface Pro. I was in the New Product Introduction team, where I got the chance to travel between China and... View Details
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
portfolios, such as exposure to climate change, remain hidden. If this disclosure void continues to exist, the competitiveness of U.S. companies and its capital market will be at risk. While not a panacea, we believe that developing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
should they balance operational activities and advocacy efforts? How can they better measure performance against their missions and improve accountability to stakeholders?" The authors discuss their book in the following Q&A.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls