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- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
and less than 1 percent of total housing units across all cities. And Airbnb didn't have much effect on hotel occupancy rates overall. Since Airbnb bookings occurred especially when hotels were already near full capacity, a large share of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
Bloomingdale's, McDonald's, and Macy's—and that it will work at about 220,000 merchant locations across the United States that have enabled contactless payments. But some analysts believe that's a small... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
opportunity, to get engaged. At the Kumbh Mela there was a central administration for the festival, much as there would be for a big state fair in the United States. It worked in coordination with the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
the value of the assets." In their paper, the authors recount how, over the past decade, risks have been repackaged to create triple-A-rated securities. By mid-2007, they write, 37,000 structured finance issues in the United View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of state regulation, which one participant... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
copyright law, similar to the law in the United States, lacks a clear dividing line that defines plagiarism. "The ambiguity is inherent in the product," Iyer says, making it difficult for Hollywood to collect anything in the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
of typical businesses (undertaking commercial activity) and not-for-profit organizations (pursuing a social mission). In this essay, I discuss my research, as well as that of others, on social enterprises with the objective of tracing my perspective on the current... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Utah, she was accepted with a full scholarship to study molecular biology and dance. Suddenly, a pre-planned life became uncharted territory. From that one big decision to pursue an education in the United States, she says, came many... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
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information - Financial and bank information - Other personal information volunteered by alumni and donors - Photos - Coaching notes Data may be shared with the following parties for the purposes stated above: Offices of Harvard... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
may not offer a functionality that copies data from an AdWords account to a non-AdWords account." The clear effect-and explicitly stated intention-is to impede advertisers' efforts to efficiently copy their ad campaigns to other... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Justin Dawe (MBA 2007), president, Scoot Networks (photo courtesy of Scoot Networks) What do you think the state of the energy industry will be in 2030? HBS students in the Energy and Environment Club asked alumni working in the field to... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
as a glamorous thing. You were dealing with multinational companies coming from the United Kingdom and the United States, so it became much more of an elitist culture. Q: What was the economic scene like for... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
cases that makes them so enduring?" Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United States in 1959 with his Japanese university wrestling team,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
the researchers looked at a representative cross section of 3,260 firms between 1998 and 2006 that are publicly traded and have their headquarters in the United States. Their first finding was that—contrary to the image of hordes of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
presentation, "Management Matters in Health Care," which proved, using data from randomly selected hospitals in seven countries, including the United States, that it absolutely does. Her research showed a definitive link between... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
digital turnaround was Justin Smith, a young, up-and-coming media professional with the ability to forge new alliances between editorial content and technology. “That recruitment was hard,” he recalls. The two met for dinner in 2007 at the Carlyle, a View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
infamous, in the United Kingdom as first lady from 1997 to 2007. Her marriage to Tony Blair, however, was the result of her own groundbreaking career in law—a career she fought to keep during the 10 years of her husband's tenure as prime... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne