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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
Governance and Oversight.” Behringer, Kristy Cunningham (MBA 1998), Rachel Lam (MBA 1994), and Liza Cahill Lempres (MBA 1989) shared insights on their very different board experiences and discussed how boards are approaching current challenges. A few takeaways: View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
inalienable rights, may not be an added power to hold us at bay?") “Depending heavily on token women could be problematic” The rhetoric surrounding Obama vs. Clinton was reminiscent of that dynamic, Giddings said. "We keep falling into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How to Come Out at Work
felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer identity and global health background to add View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
by the threat to the core business and encouraged by the CEO's personal involvement, the management team repeatedly asked for heavy, upfront investments of resources. D'Arbeloff's response was critical. He pushed them to find new markets and new opportunities that... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. Meanwhile, search engines create an implied endorsement in their selection of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
in America with 99% of its revenues deriving from its simple, text-only advertising services. It is on track to bring in roughly $9.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006, which would place it fourth among American media companies in total View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
the risk of placing one big bet on a single location or food concept. The model can scale up simply by adding more kitchens, and offerings can be tweaked rapidly in response to data-driven insights. For its part, Foodology uses... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
adding that he sent out 500 printed cards announcing the formation of Paulson & Co. Then, he says with a laugh, “I sat by the phone waiting for it to ring.” No one called, but he persevered, managing his own money while knocking on doors.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
on Amazon; they help curate the kind of books I might like, I actually like that service. And if I'm looking online at a retailer for a particular shirt, I don't mind them sending me ads for shirts. That's very, very different than when... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
energy around aerospace as government has opened up the sector to privatization. Students passionate about space often bring a unique combination of technical and managerial skills and are finding opportunities to add value to companies... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
the ground up, Jenrette's restorations have met the highest standards. "Most of the people associated with my projects have been working for me for twenty years or more," he notes. "They're in their businesses because they love to work with beautiful things. I really... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
homes. The temptation to undertake continuous rather than snapshot monitoring can, in some cases, be unproductive and costly, and risks turning patients into hypochondriacs. Mobile health innovations should be adopted widely only after controlled consumer experiments... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
cookies? Fresh out of HBS I opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston. Every morning I watched thousands of people walk by; no one bought cookies before noon. So I added fresh croissants and baguettes, two items that were not in the... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
believe as if you were an owner? (2) Do you take action based on those beliefs? (3) Do you focus on adding value to others and take responsibility for the effect of your actions on others? Leadership is a... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
expenses and growth-focused investments, and its fiscal 2014 margin contribution also came in higher than initially planned. Executive Education also delivered strong financial results in fiscal 2014, while successfully building for the future. Although opening Tata... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
take a look at America Online. My recollection is that they had about 10,000 subscribers at that time who were paying a little less than $20 per month. That gave them a running rate of $2.4 million in gross revenues per year. I thought that that was impressive. In... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
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James Reinhart
When he tried to figure out what to do with the clothes he no longer wanted, he had his “Aha” moment. thredUP, founded in 2009, was doing well with its original concept, swapping men’s and women’s clothes. The new venture was View Details