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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

million, or 2 percent, to $304 million, finishing fiscal 2024 slightly below plan. The decrease primarily reflected lower revenue from advertising and from HBP’s Corporate Learning and Harvard Business Press groups, which was partially... View Details

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

algorithmic perspective, really trying to put more women in those role-- women and people of non-Caucasian background in those roles. Morrell: So it didn't necessarily start out with that social mission or outcome-- Polli: No. Morrell:... View Details

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

bad things, but people feel so burdened by it that we've lost track of the idea that we're all just trying to make progress so that we're better off tomorrow than we were today. And if we can give them a process for doing that and that process is View Details

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

transit are all coordinated to reinforce each other. The city is growing quickly and efficiently. This comprehensive plan is consistent with Rwanda’s strategy to attract international capital by offering transparency and responsiveness in... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

for Professional Responsibility , Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press, 1948, pp. 85-93. David, Donald K., “Methods of Teaching Business in Schools of Business,” The Ronald Forum, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American... View Details

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—Is racial heterogeneity responsible for the distressed financial... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

corporate positions, not from academia. Studies have documented that, for these individuals, the attractiveness of entrepreneurial activity is very sensitive to tax policy. Also important is ensuring that the law allows firms to enter... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Harvard Business School

issues faced by African Americans nationwide. In a letter to faculty members, they stated: "(1) the seriousness of the racial situation and the socioeconomic condition of Black people demand a major and positive response from all... View Details

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

disclosed, reducing consumer privacy. Consumers benefit from intense competition, but often through lower prices or subsidies, rather than through reduced disclosure of their information. Consumers are more in tune than ever with View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

faculty response was by John Russell, our Ops professor, who walked in, cold-called five of our sectionmates (which he had never done before), wrote “bingo” on the blackboard, and asked who had the pot. The guy with the pot sheepishly... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

invented the concept of FairMarket Network, which is basically a distributed selling environment, where we'll run marketplaces and auctions for many companies underneath their own brand. That way they'll drive the traffic; they'll be View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

state-of-the-art graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

banks—a mortgage delivery system that was populated by brokers, mortgage banks, and investors. "This opened the door to new sources of capital from around the world. Holding that door wide open were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. By that time those government View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased savings. Discouragement from... View Details