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16 Jan 2018
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Luis Viceira: Activism, Indexing, and the Investment Management Workshop (IMW)

14 Dec 2017
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Five Harvard Business School Doctoral Candidates Receive Research Awards

28 Jan 2025
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Leading with transparency in a distrustful era

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Integration of Online and Offline Channels in Retail: The Impact of Sharing Reliable Inventory Availability Information

By: Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno

Using a proprietary data set, we analyze the impact of the implementation of a “buy-online, pick-up-in-store” (BOPS) project. The implementation of this project is associated with a reduction in online sales and an increase in store sales and traffic. These results can... View Details

Keywords: Retail Operations; Inventory Availability; Empirical Operations Management; Business Analytics; Online Retail; Ecommerce; Operations; Management; Distribution Channels; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce; Retail Industry

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16 Sep 2014
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Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship to Host Peter Thiel

21 Nov 2017
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A Thanksgiving Recipe for Success: Ask Questions

01 Mar 2022
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Women of Color Lead, Empower & Thrive: A Virtual Event

05 Jun 2017
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How to Make Friends by Asking Questions

09 Jul 2013
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Top 10 Quotes From Harvard’s First Forum On Healthcare Innovation

27 Apr 2022
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How to Decline a Job Offer

27 Apr 2020
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Key tools for remote working

17 Dec 2019
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Six Harvard Business School Doctoral Candidates Receive Research Awards

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

future do not show this want/should pattern, and we discuss a potential explanation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-078.pdf Conversational Blindness: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 1991 (Revised November 1993)
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Valuation and Discounted Cash Flows

A set of five exercises in valuation of simple fixed income securities. No capital budgeting. Students use present value analysis to compute discounted cash flows. Situations/concepts covered include: future value; mortgage payment and repayment; calculating implicit... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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11 Feb 2021
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Why we need a “Take Your Manager to Care-Work Day”

17 Sep 2019
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A Bright Future for Small Business, with Karen Mills

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When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words

By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat

Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Perception; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments

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16 Jul 2021
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Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

On Earth Day 2021, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and the AMP199 Energy Circle co-hosted a conversation between Joan MacNaughton, Chair of the Climate Group and of the Advisory Board of the New Energy Coalition of Europe, and... View Details

November 2005
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Michael Ovitz and The Walt Disney Company (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Alexis Chernak

Faced with the need to hire a new president, The Walt Disney Co. pursued Michael Ovitz, a founder of the Creative Artist Agency. Although initially disinterested, Ovitz engaged in negotiations with Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Co., in the summer of 1995... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Selection and Staffing; Negotiation; Organizational Culture

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