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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Lauder, founded Estée Lauder Cosmetics. By the time she retired from public life in the mid-1990s, this company had become one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in the world and was recognized as one of the leading players in the... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
At his 2012 wedding, Peter Stone (MBA 2008) received an unexpected compliment, in addition to all of the expected well wishes and toasts. Bestselling author and guest Margaret Stohl told Stone that she was impressed with the vows he’d... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
attended virtual faculty research symposium. Innovation across the MBA Program continued in fiscal 2021, as the School delivered the first year of the new joint MS/MBA in Biotechnology: Life Sciences (a joint degree with the Graduate... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
computer algorithm. Bad News Bears What they discovered was surprising. This wasn't a small number of companies manipulating their earnings calls. "Instead, it seems that nearly every firm finds it useful to choreograph or 'cast' a call at some point in its View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
persist. In reflecting on ways to maximize my impact in this complex space, I have strengthened my sense of purpose: to advance health equity. I want to create a world in which the most vulnerable moments of a person’s life are not... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting their own guilt and... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407039 PublicationsAndy Grove: The Life and Times of an American Author:Richard Tedlow Publication:Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, 2006 Abstract Andy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
relationships. There is a TED talk that I really enjoy the talks about long life expectancy in a part of Sardinia and talks about the types of relationships that we need to have for this. So it's a mixture... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
contracting intensity in privately governed organizations, whereas we expect no such association for publicly governed organizations. We analyze data from California hospitals to determine differences in these roles across ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
lucrative gig that taught him a lot about business but ultimately landed him in prison. Once he’d served his 14 months, Blakeman sought to build a career and turn his life around. But when his criminal record kept him from getting a job,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-041_1af09bde-47f9-4364-bad6-aaac464be909.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-008 The United Kingdom and the Means to Prosperity After struggling through the country's longest recession... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
impression of quietude is partly due to the fact that all shipping and receiving takes place at a centralized location on the periphery of campus. From that location, all incoming and outgoing goods (including food and trash) are dispatched underground without... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
determining the expected return of, and hence the optimal allocation to, less persistent, more turnover-intensive characteristics. The mean-variance optimal tilts toward value, size, and profitability are roughly equal to each other and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about earnings in entrepreneurship, this option increases the expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
exercising discretion. Doctors tend to deviate more, and deviations tend to be less detrimental with experience, yet deviations remain harmful even for high levels of experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Bulletin, about balancing Burning Man's books, and what a day in the life of a burner really looks like. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Jennifer, I was realizing that Burning Man has been around now for about 30 years. You've been attending for... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
the mark. "Microsoft can innovate faster than your life can change," Christensen observed dryly. The only thing we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root.—Clayton M. Christensen When... View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
across the country. Few cities exemplify the complexities of urban growth as vividly as Mumbai. With its dense population of over 20 million and economic significance, the city is a powerhouse in a country expected to become the world’s... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
since early 2012, and it’s been an experience he never expected as “a guy who spent the first 40 years of his life never thinking about anywhere outside the US.” “I fell in love with this place (Kenya)... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken