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  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

An Average Day at HBS

especially in your first year, no two days look or feel the same. That makes it extremely difficult to outline what my average weekday and weekend looks like, but I will do my best!  Weekdays Not surprisingly, during the week the primary... View Details
  • January 2005 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

Arch Wireless, Inc.

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry L. Fagan
The largest wireless paging company in the United States has to restructure its debt in response to the collapse of its market. The restructuring faces formidable challenges. Valuing the company is extremely difficult because Arch's public competitors are also severely... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Organizational Structure; Valuation
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  • April 2003 (Revised December 2006)
  • Case

ZARA: Fast Fashion

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jose Luis Nueno
Focuses on Inditex, an apparel retailer from Spain, which has set up an extremely quick response system for its ZARA chain. Instead of predicting months before a season starts what women will want to wear, ZARA observes what's selling and what's not and continuously... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Spain
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  • Profile

Charles Jennings

How has HBS prepared you for your current role and your long term career? HBS has improved my mental flexibility in handling new and challenging situations by exposing me to a wide variety of extremely talented individuals. I am better... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing; Other Financial Services
  • April 2012 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

Merck: Operating Science-Based Business

By: Ananth Raman, Inga Maurer and William Schmidt
Merck is known for its commitment to investing in basic R&D. Are Merck's long-term investments justifiable when the firm faces extreme earnings pressure? View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Management; Research and Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Operations; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 10 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

before you. Look for nannies and/or a spot at a daycare in the neighborhood.  Don’t struggle alone and ask for help when you need it. HBS implemented great policies for parents, with a specific set of options for mothers. Faculty and the MBA Administration were View Details
  • 10 Aug 2017
  • News

Pal’s Sudden Service: Taking Fast Food to the Next Level

    Ideological Segregation among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians

    Do online communities segregate into separate conversations about “contestable knowledge”? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics, and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display... View Details

    • 07 Apr 2011
    • News

    Productivity Secrets of a Very Busy Man

      TopCoder Innovation Series - Professor Karim Lakhani on Open Innovation

      Professor Lakhani - Harvard Business School - shares his thoughts on the extreme value outcomes born from Open Innovation competitions, Big Data opportunities and the TopCoder... View Details

      • 25 Jun 2019
      • Blog Post

      Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

      misalignments can lead to inefficiencies that waste money and slow the development of important treatments.  While the science-business gap in biotechnology poses a significant challenge, it also presents an opportunity.  Professionals who understand the language of... View Details
      • 13 Dec 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      Sharing News That Might Be Bad

      This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face of a key employee darkening... View Details
      Keywords: by Paul Michelman
      • July 2019
      • Article

      I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice

      By: Kate Barasz, Tami Kim and Ioannis Evangelidis
      People often speculate about why others make the choices they do. This paper investigates how such inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen... View Details
      Keywords: Self-other Difference; Social Perception; Inference-making; Preferences; Consumer Behavior; Prediction; Prediction Error; Decision Choices and Conditions; Perception; Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction
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      • 04 Apr 2020
      • News

      Coronavirus Likely to Devastate Small Businesses, Harvard Business School Professors Say

      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Variance-Seeking for Positive (and Variance-Aversion for Negative) Experiences: Risk-Seeking in the Domain of Gains?

      By: Jolie Mae Martin, Gregory M. Barron and Michael I. Norton
      In contrast to research which has conflated losses with negative experiences and gains with positive experiences, we argue that because reference points are set by memories of extremely good and bad experiences, most outcomes are seen as losses in positive domains and... View Details
      Keywords: Change; Experience and Expertise; Marketing; Research; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Perspective
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      • 03 Apr 2017
      • Blog Post

      The International Experience at HBS

      promotion, I chose to pursue the transformational experience that Harvard has to offer.  As an international student, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from HBS. Coming from Morocco and France, but having lived in Texas, the UK and Benin, I found it View Details
      • 21 May 2014
      • News

      What to do when your refrigerator starts advertising

      • September 2009
      • Case

      Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Courtney Purrington
      Peter Schultz, Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, managed an extremely productive lab. This case examines how Schultz recruited, motivated and inspired the students and scientists that worked with him. View Details
      Keywords: Higher Education; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Research and Development; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership Style
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      • June 2015
      • Article

      Understanding Ordinary Unethical Behavior: Why People Who Value Morality Act Immorally

      By: F. Gino
      Cheating, deception, organizational misconduct, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest challenges in today's society. As regularly highlighted by the media, extreme cases and costly scams are common. Yet, even more frequent and pervasive are... View Details
      Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior
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