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- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
introduction of a very general class of unobserved heterogeneity on agents' preferences. Under minimal assumptions, we show existence and uniqueness of equilibrium. We provide two algorithms to compute the equilibria in our model. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
the workers’ allegiance. She does so in part by meeting one-on-one with every employee and introducing innovations such as pairing a shift worker with a manager in coleadership roles. “This is an unusual case because it’s about an MBA in her first job,” View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Howard Stevenson and Bill Sahlman The conference kicked off with Professors Stevenson and Sahlman presenting a master class on the pandemic’s lessons for entrepreneurs and investors. The virtual format allowed the audience a unique... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Keith Garner of Pasta Cuisine, on finding a niche and serving it well: “It's a great feeling to serve someone lunch and have them tell you how delicious it tasted.” by Julia Hanna As a student at HBS, Joe Fox would unwind from a long week of View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
form called a Benefit Corporation; and 3) creating an investment rating system to help drive institutional investment to the emerging asset class of "impact investments." The case considers the challenges associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
old—a blip for an entity that dates, some believe, to the third millennium BCE. Yoga was widely introduced in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s, as Indian practitioners emigrated to the country, and Americans traveled to the source to study with View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
last day of class this past spring, "everyone did a double take," Koehn recalls. Oprah Winfrey was in the house. How the icon of daytime television and chief executive of a major media empire came to HBS after three years of... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
MBAs a year, with upwards of 150,000 of those in the United States alone. At HBS, the business of business education is thriving. Applications are on the rise again after trending downward for several years. Only one out of nine applicants to the View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
With the 15th Reunion for the Class of 1984 just around the corner, the Bulletin revisits five members of the class we've been keeping tabs on over the years to learn how they're balancing family and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
has encountered several hiccups in recent years that have put the timing of its implementation in question, leading Rebecca M. Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, to get students thinking during a class last week:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
colors, patterns, swatches of fabric, and garment samples assembled to plan Old Navy’s fall 2005 clothing lines. Ross, casually dressed in a style reflective of Old Navy’s “democratic” approach to fashion, notes that such public displays... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
covered in the designs constructed by each member of the team, five pieces of white paper covered in Post-it notes in every color of the rainbow, and flow charts exhibiting varying degrees of artistic ability and detail. For nearly an... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
academic sent me the link [to the petition] after I expressed sympathy for her situation I opened my class today echoing the Harvard president and HBS dean that all voices, religions, nationalities and values belong at Harvard and are... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
opportunities for human development are key to regenerating a middle class on which the US Constitution depends, I was surprised that there wasn’t a greater sense of urgency in many of the comments. Alan Levy led the enthusiasts with the... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they argue, [Google founder] Sergey... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
noted that the images were “especially valuable in the industrial management classes because they portray so clearly such practical industrial problems as the relationship between the laborer and the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
sufficient capital the opportunity to open a bank and issue bank notes (a widely accepted form of paper money at the time). The bill also required that every note issued by a New York bank be fully backed by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
is and also the fact that other people might have another mindset." Students also learn not to get snowed by certain tactics that are used by the other party. For instance, the class works on a case in which a banker is selling a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
All illustrations by Joe Ciardiello Jeffrey Bussgang (MBA ’95) is collaborating with faculty member Noam Wasserman on a case to be taught in Wasserman’s elective course Founders’ Dilemmas: Money and Power in Entrepreneurial Ventures. Targeted at future entrepreneurs,... View Details