Qualitative Methods (General) - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

subscriptions. Newspapers with less exclusive content, however, have generally experienced losses when they started charging readers to access digital editions, according to the research, which studied major newspaper firms in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

required to write business cases. All students, regardless of background, receive a full scholarship and generous stipend help cover costs for up to five years, which ensures that students have more time to conduct research. During their... View Details

16 Mar 2023
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Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating business travel in a world... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

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Price Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients

In this paper, we postulate a general class of price competition models with Mixed Multinomial Logit demand functions under affine cost functions. We first characterize the equilibrium behavior of this class of models in the case where each product in the market is... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Income Characteristics; Price; Product Marketing; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Segmentation

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11 Aug 2008
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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

a company? A: The OSM is analogous to a military general's chief of staff. The general is responsible and accountable for developing the strategy to win wars and battles. But a general almost always has a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

backstage. I thought I would be able to predict my professors' moves or know exactly what they were asking for (maybe even get ahead of those cold calls!). Of course, I was sorely mistaken. HBS professors are, simply, in a league of their own. The case View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Qcells, General Electric Vernova, Enel Green Power Equitable access to resources: Chargerhelp!, BlocPower, Volta Financial investment: Bank of America Conclusions U.S. policies provide an opportunity for businesses to address... View Details

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

interact with and learn from veterans. The case method certainly facilitates this, and you shouldn't count yourself out. Ken Sullivan (MBA 2023) Hometown: Evanston, IL Undergraduate university and major: University of Illinois at... View Details

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

the Interactive Advertising Bureau uses three methods to value the contribution of the advertising-supported Internet to the U.S. economy: Employment value. The Internet employs 1.2 million people directly to conduct advertising and... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

utilize such data are of considerable interest. Unfortunately, existing methods for analyzing the data in such systems ignore the open-ended exploratory nature of such systems that requires the assessment of multiple possible adverse... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

value of the endowment in real terms (after inflation) and generating a predictable stream of available income, the University’s targeted annual payout range is 5.0 to 5.5 percent of market value. The payout rate for fiscal 2022 was 4.2... View Details

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

experience. The case method at HBS forces you to be fully present, reactive and able to communicate your opinions in a very clear way. The real beauty of the case method is listening to the opinions of... View Details

14 Jul 2014
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Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

identity if it spills over to general consumers. "Often the lovers or haters of a product can be the canary in the coal mine—an early warning system that can alert managers to problems or identify areas where a competitor could come in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Beth Clark | About

faculty to deliver the interactive case method while maintaining the high standards HBS students expect. Prior to HBS, Beth dedicated a decade at Boston College, building the University's academic technology division and introducing a... View Details

April 12, 2022
Article

Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States

By: Estee Y. Cramer, Evan L. Ray, Velma K. Lopez, Johannes Bracher, Andrea Brennen, Alvaro J. Castro Rivadeneira, Michael Lingzhi Li and et al.

Short-term probabilistic forecasts of the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States have served as a visible and important communication channel between the scientific modeling community and both the general public and decision-makers. Forecasting models... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Forecasting and Prediction; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods; Partners and Partnerships

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

case method with participants in different locations. The faculty teach from the physical classroom while participants connect online from anywhere in the world, engaging in real-time. May 2015 Race, Gender & Equity Initiative The Race,... View Details

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

e-books eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad, that invigorated the digital book market are discussed. Also includes a general overview of book publishing including the K-12 and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Applying to the JD/MBA Program

pursue an MBA to gain both (1) substantive perspective on how to run companies and (2) qualitative perspective on how to lead. In the long term, the types of organizations I hope to help lead are those focused on impact, so I also decided... View Details

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Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Feedback Sample Class The opening of a case method class can exert a powerful influence on the success of the session as a whole but there is significant interrelatedness and interdependency among class openings, transitions, and... View Details

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