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- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
low-retention HR strategy, its customers probably regard it as a highly successful application of that idea. Advocates of a high-retention strategy may wonder why Amazon hasn’t learned something from online... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Why Most Resist AI Companions
By: Julian De Freitas, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp and Stefano Puntoni
AI companion applications—designed to serve as synthetic interaction partners—have recently
become capable enough to reduce loneliness, a growing public health concern. However,
behavioral research has yet to fully explain the barriers to adoption of such AI and... View Details
Keywords: Generative Ai; Chatbots; Artificial Intelligence; Algorithmic Aversion; Lonelines; Technology Adoption; AI and Machine Learning; Well-being; Emotions
De Freitas, Julian, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp, and Stefano Puntoni. "Why Most Resist AI Companions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-030, December 2024. (Revised May 2025.)
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The company was spending one-sixth of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
that pioneered conversational commerce. At Hilma, Hilary leverages her personal passion for consumer products and integrative health with her Harvard MBA, and impressive professional history of launching new consumer brands, to build and operate Hilma's View Details
- 07 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much
giving campaign was manipulated, consumers continued to prefer the brand they felt gave a larger percentage of profits to those giving a larger sum of money. In that study, shoppers considering an online purchase were told that Brand X... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game theory under three learning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy
widespread discrimination on Airbnb, leading Airbnb to take steps to mitigate bias and prompting broader discussion across other companies. “Many businesses were unaware of the implications of their decisions,” says Luca, whose research on race in the View Details
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Skydeck - Alumni
Programs & Events Skydeck Skydeck is the HBS alumni podcast series that features interviews with HBS alumni from across the world of business, sharing lessons learned and their own life experiences. Subscribe on iTunes , Spotify , or... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Program
OPM Renew
Summary Whether you attended the Owner/President Management (OPM) program at Harvard Business School last year or many years ago, the excitement of learning and growing at HBS—and collaborating and networking with other entrepreneurial... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
of tests to make its own estimations. The computer had no way of parsing the language in the jokes, nor did it follow a model indicating what features made a joke funny. Instead, it relied on “collaborative filtering” algorithms to learn... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Collaboratory The Social Impact Collaboratory is a multi-faculty effort to advance knowledge and practice in the rapidly growing field of investing for impact and scaling for impact. Other Learning Opportunities Sustainable Investing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Taffi was a tech-enabled fashion styling startup founded by Shahad Geoffrey in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Within three years of operating, Geoffrey had pivoted the business multiple times. In 2023, Geoffrey was attempting the business’s most ambitious pivot yet, shifting... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Fashion Industry; Technology Industry; Saudi Arabia; Arabian Peninsula
Gompers, Paul A., and Fares Khrais. "Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia." Harvard Business School Case 224-052, February 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 19 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Answering Your Questions About the HBS MBA Application
waivers. We do accept the online versions of these exams where available even if they do not have a writing section (AWA). Scores from these online tests will be accepted at HBS in any future admissions... View Details
- Fast Answer
Financial databases: certification and training
learning catalogue, you can upskill and prepare at your own pace, with a final test that is accessible online for you to self-register for and take at a time that suits you. View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details