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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
done to create opportunity for the 40 percent of American workers stuck in low-wage jobs? This session will feature recent research from the School's Managing the Future of Work Project. Participants will gain an understanding of what... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
gain access to valuable knowledge because a KR is universally and constantly available and can be used without social interaction. However, for it to serve this equalizing function, those on the periphery of the organization must actually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
average patient of medium severity in this ED. We propose that the improved performance comes from a reduction in social loafing and a more distributed utilization of shared resources. These benefits outweigh the expected efficiency gains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced View Details
- Research Summary
Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
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Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it will happen. The productivity... View Details
- Profile
Aline Camargo
the career paths that I was considering doing. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship & your long term career? As I plan to develop my career in Brand Management and Marketing Strategy, I know that I will constantly interact with coworkers across other... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
and retailers keep the segment growing? Tahari said she and her husband have considered the idea of buying one of their retailers in an effort to get more information about how their products are selling, improve their margins, and better... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
equity with Berkshire Partners, Aaron came to HBS “to gain an understanding of how businesses function from a perspective beyond the financial analysis and business due diligence lens.” But during his time at Morgan Stanley and Berkshire,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
resources—be it the myriad Amazon product reviews, a rich collection of free videos on YouTube, or Google’s open-source algorithms. Thanks to these tech giants, a significant portion of your ecosystem is already established and readily... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
of digital marketing, companies are looking for new ways to gain an edge with fatigued customers. Harnessing customers’ routines may offer a compelling new opportunity.When services such as ridesharing are part of a routine—even if that... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
themselves. The protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 led to retaliation all over the world, and trade fell into a downward spiral that exacerbated the crisis. "One thing we keep relearning is that gains from trade do not... View Details
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
arrangements from the perspective of the "elephants"? A: Most successful large companies excel at business planning, allocation of capital, and execution. Many are also good at product innovation in the small, continuous... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
make dramatic improvements immediately. As a result, they gain the patience to implement changes having long-term benefits, as opposed to changes having only short-term results. Technology, for example, can facilitate major, immediate... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Interns: Discover Their Career Passions
corporate strategy, giving him a holistic view of how organizations think about future growth. Pallavi Thatai, who joined Tesla in San Francisco and transitioned from a finance background, is hoping to gain insight into what it is like to... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
viewer's attention cannot be purchased by an advertiser but must be gained by the ad. Thus, he is helping advertisers to make online video ads so riveting that users want to watch them. His experimental research looks at the emotional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
— after a twenty-year “trial separation” as they like to say — and gained both a business and a domestic partner. Neptune Farm now maintains three acres of asparagus, two acres of blueberry bushes, 42 Hereford cattle, and 45 Dorset sheep.... View Details
Albert D. Lasker
Lasker was a pioneer of hard-hitting advertising. He directed campaigns for such products as Palmolive Soap, Quaker Oats, and Pepsodent Toothpaste (he helped to found the latter company and was one of its directors for many years). He was... View Details
Keywords: Services