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May 2022
Case

Deborah Quazzo at GSV Ventures

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith and Nicole Tempest Keller

As COVID-19 swept across the globe in 2020, the education sector faced unprecedented disruption. Schools and colleges worldwide shut down, forcing over a billion students and teachers to move to online learning. Investor interest in the EdTech space exploded as... View Details

Keywords: Edtech; Technology; Online Learning; COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Information Technology; Venture Capital; Change Management; Strategy; Education Industry; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; California

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09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

that, we are also clearly not, at the other extreme of remote work, seeing a universal type of practice that every firm is going to apply.” Sadun co-authored the paper with... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

delivery systems.” To unravel this complexity, the research team surveyed 78 radiation oncology professionals at the University of California in Los Angeles. First, they... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

jobs with competitors. They can often even prevent them from working in the same industry, especially when employers are intentionally vague in defining the competition in non-compete agreements. As Professor Matt Marx of Cornell View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=kupor%20tormala%20norton%20rucker.pdf Working Papers An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

coauthors, Ho Kim of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and Reo Song of California State University, Long... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

University of Southern California and eventually as a Ph.D. student at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. But it didn’t mean abandoning lessons... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

07 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

market index, but a few do very well. Hedge funds are now becoming respectable investments for pension funds, as did venture capital firms about fifteen years ago. Major colleges and universities have 20 to 30 percent View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

article, which he co-wrote with physicians Lisa Rotenstein, assistant medical director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; and Christine Cassel, professor of medicine at the University View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

reported trouble staffing up when the economy began to recover. "Helping workers keep attached to their prior employers could speed up the recovery," explained Till von Wachter, an economist with the University View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

San Francisco has always been a beacon for people who want to change the world. From beat poets to hippies to gay activists, each wave of counterculture immigration has put its stamp on the city, creating a unique blend that has set it... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

Business School. “They need to cut expenses to the bone to ride out this crisis.” Stanton worked with HBS colleagues Michael Luca and Zoe Cullen; Harvard University economics professor Ed Glaeser; and Alex Bartik View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, teamed up with Gerardo Perez-Cavazos at the University of California San Diego’s... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

issue is how effective such measures have been and whether they can successfully be sustained. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-023 Public Mission, Private Funding: The View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

form or another—was inevitable. Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Clough, an assistant professor at the University View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

Larry Smarr, the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), reflects on the Institute's past 10 years of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

segment about the nonprofit on comedian John Oliver’s HBO show Last Week Tonight. Kluender coauthored the study with Neale Mahoney, a professor at Stanford University; Wesley Yin, a professor at the University View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

California State University at San Bernardino recently released a report stating that hate crimes have spiked in the United States for the fourth year in a row. African Americans are the most frequent... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

Negotiation Table In their presentation, Hannah Riley Bowles (HBS DBA'01) of the Harvard Kennedy School and Laura Kray of UC Berkeley spoke about a "negotiation... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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