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13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

significantly improve the performance and satisfaction of workers and boost the chances of hiring them permanently, according to the results of the study by Harvard Business School professors Iavor I.... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

2006
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The Value of a 'Free' Customer

By: Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz

Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenus and profit potential of its customer assets. As a result, there has been a recent proliferation of work regarding customer lifetime value. However, extant research in this area is silent regarding how to... View Details

Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Network Effects; Business Strategy

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18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

to ask questions and make comments. In reality, however, the speakers often do the opposite—dominating the time and not allowing for much discussion at all. "As professors... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. Your feedback to last month’s column As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding ‘Don’t Say Gay’? By the time cases are discussed at HBS View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Business Track & Crowd Favorite Winner We reduce braiding time from hours to minutes, empowering Black salon owners to double or triple their business and addressing the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair... View Details

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

that establishes an implicit value for the shares—also helps prevent potential tax problems for "cheap stock." Incorporating too late, and issuing inexpensive stock to the founders at the same time... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

exclusively for MBA students with a social enterprise focus – those who have a demonstrated commitment prior to HBS (could be any sector) and a goal of continued exploration or commitment to social enterprise. The Forum provides deeper... View Details

March–April 2023
Article

Market Segmentation Trees

By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis

Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market... View Details

Keywords: Decision Trees; Computational Advertising; Market Segmentation; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Marketplace Matching; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

not focused on them. In this paper we argue for greater recognition of repositioning costs, provide a repositioning cost typology, and demonstrate the fertility of this approach with a simple model of inter-firm competitive interaction in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

organizations or lobby for changes to external regulation and public policy,” Huckman says. Changing how medicine is taught Of course, even if medical schools recognize the need to develop these management View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Choosing the Right Student Loan

wisely, you can minimize the amount you owe and the time it takes to pay them off. There are tons of student loan options out there, so how do you choose which one is right for you? Here are five important... View Details

30 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Temptation at Work

Keywords: by Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser & Marco Piovesan

Research Summary

Overview

By: Mark L. Egan

When considering how households make investment decisions, Professor Egan became intrigued by the question, “What makes a bank ‘special’ when compared to other lending institutions?” Focusing on empirical industrial organization with applications to finance and... View Details

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

get to and the time to get there, that allowed them to spread their wings and really fly. And what was amazing to me was that team that had... View Details

14 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022

(MBA 2023) Becky and Adriann's Love Story: The First Time We Met Adriann’s story: I was a stressed consultant, constantly traveling with a rocky foundation and never-ending... View Details

Fast Answer

Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds

1000 companies at a time. In LSEG Workspace: (follow the instruction on the webpage to set up your individual account if you are first time user.) Click on the Search Tools tab and select Private... View Details

Portrait Project

Katie Rowe

I keep a “grrr” list. It has a simple premise: when I am frustrated by a failure of the healthcare system, I write it down. Every time something makes me think, “we could do that better,” it goes onto the list. Our patient does not have... View Details

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Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities - Recruiting

consistent pace followed by times of deadline driven pressure, that should be clearly explained. Candidates know themselves and their work styles and want to set themselves up... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

financial advisory capacity in U.S. and foreign transactions. By 1966, Lehman Brothers, described by Time magazine as “a diversified department store of high finance,” ranked among the nation’s top... View Details

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Yet the costs of this unbalanced approach to managing economic downturns are not always well understood by managers. LAYOFFS ARE EXTREMELY DISRUPTIVE In April, the Honeywell case was taught for the first View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

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