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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
changing seasons. Go birding in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Visit the first rural, or "garden" cemetery in the United States, located on the edge of Cambridge. In addition to famous burials, remarkable monuments, and amazing plantings, this... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
eleven regions compete like teams in a league, trying to beat one another's return on equity. Similarly, the 550 branches compete on two other key performance indicators: Cost to income and profit per employee. The relative standings are View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
By: Buell, Ryan W. Abstract—Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully understand and appreciate the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
increased scope for markets, and distrust of markets generally. Our results suggest that while the public is potentially receptive to compensating kidney donors, among those who oppose it, general disapproval towards certain kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)
401k, but I didn’t have enough to just go to HBS and be able to contribute half of the cost. What was your approach to paying for HBS? I financed HBS through scholarships and fellowships, and both public and... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
2018 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences By: Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds. Abstract—Immigration policy is one of the most contentious View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-042 Casper Sleep Inc.: Marketing the 'One Perfect Mattress for Everyone' “A Warby Parker of mattresses? Somebody is going to do it. Why not us?” This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
5). Figure 4: Will any of the Following Intermediaries be at the Center of a Financial Crisis, Within 10 Years? Figure 5: Most State Pensions are Underfunded Sources: Data from Pew Charity Trusts review of financial reports and public... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
team to dig into the language of open-mindedness. Through their work, the team identified five ingredients of conversational receptiveness—the use of language to communicate one’s willingness to thoughtfully engage with opposing views—that View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
reinforce the positive consequences of taking the vaccine, such as the ability to visit family, go to work, and have more entertainment options. With those factors in mind, we offer three customer-centric recommendations to speed adoption... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
to going to HBS, it wasn’t until I took “Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact,” taught by Professors Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi, that I had a chance to learn about what impact investing was and understand how big the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Next Campaign Describes how a former public official became an advocate who started a nonprofit organization after losing her campaign for governor. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/308040 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
growth. Being listed on the stock exchange does mark a company's value but in this case it was a low mark.— Walter Kuemmerle Kuemmerle fired questions at conference participants on Gray's available options. Should they go public? Doing so... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project
In seeking information on beauty products prior to purchase over the last year, 67% of respondents consulted social media influencers and 59% consulted third-party product reviews. However, company advertisements and public... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
activity, and even when provided with free supplies, people continue to wash their hands without soap—if they wash their hands at all. “If you look at these public health initiatives, you see that they are often a complicated combination... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Professor John Davis is still fresh in my mind and I often use it to reflect on certain decisions.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work at MAYU? “My wife is the heart and brains behind MAYU, as she oversees the design, sourcing, manufacturing, View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
University Institute—set out to get to the bottom of CEO time management by following nearly 100 top managers in Italy, as reported in a recent paper with the deceptively simple title, What Do CEOs Do? "We had no way of knowing what we were View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding