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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Yecies (MBA 1988) Alumni Track Winner Safe, effective treatment to prevent Osteoporosis. Kudos CEO: Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) Alumni Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner Cotton cush for baby’s tush. Business Track, 2020 Alife Health,... View Details

25 Mar 2021
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Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

acclimating to American culture and living in a new country, concerns related to speaking and writing in English as a second language and how to participate effectively in class discussions, and adjusting to the case-based pedagogy.... View Details

24 Oct 2011
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The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

reviews over professional critics, but also because of its historical database that tracks every review. Luca compared the ratings over time with revenue data from the state of Washington to gauge how reviews impacted restaurants' bottom lines. In order to establish... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

political consensus to make investments in the infrastructure that will lead to more effective use of these resources. There is a largely unrecognized opportunity for the private sector to engage in selective investments that consider... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

21 Sep 2021
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Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?

The global COVID-19 pandemic has shifted power dynamics not only within today’s historically tight job market, where workers have an unprecedented level of choice and control, but also within households, organizations, and society as a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

innovative opportunities, grow new offerings effectively with limited budgets and resources, and relate to the landscape of digital platforms. You can take the courses in any order. Design Thinking and Innovation Entrepreneurial Marketing... View Details

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

26 Oct 2015
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What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

midnight to catch the games. (In an earlier paper, The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics, Chung looked at the bump in applicants that colleges often see after a major sporting event, dubbed... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

11 Aug 2008
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Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational principles into a more effective management system that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 May 2005
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Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

through on the threat to someone with greater power. This dynamic often plays out in corporate hiring decisions. In many companies, new recruits must negotiate their compensation with the human resources (HR) department rather than with... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social... View Details

19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

have delayered, flattened firms can exhibit more control and decision making at the top. Managers take note. Flattening can lead to exactly the opposite effects from what it promises to do. Read the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

conclusions about the universality of gender stereotype content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49830 in press Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Should You Sleep on It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

suggest to some that the impact of excess capacity as a factor in the world economy could increase in the coming decades. Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, is a member of the Organizations and Markets Unit at HBS. He sees... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

28 Jul 2008
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Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

less well-known dynamic of customer differentiation and its effect on the way businesses are structured and run is examined in a recent Harvard Business School working paper, "Organizational Design and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

behind using reserves as a means to avoid the negative effects of crisis: why don't sovereign countries reduce their sovereign debt instead? To study the joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2020
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IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

the study. A more effective campaign would be to encourage development of STEM-based skills more generally. For professionals or new college graduates looking at IT for high-paying jobs, Greenstein advises concentrating not on a specific... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

01 Oct 2012
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Better by the Bundle?

research that culminated in their paper The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy. Kumar and Derdenger studied the handheld video game market between 2001 and 2005, specifically Nintendo's Game... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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