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- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
an animal shelter near her hometown. “I visited the shelter to earn a Girl Scout badge, but it immediately became a passion,” she says. More than a decade later she was sitting in a behavioral economics class at Stanford University,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S. News and World Report. “It's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
graduating MBAs to engage in and influence the key strategic priorities of leading social sector organizations. Although the article cited the generous financial support that HBS and its donor base provides to fellows, it’s also worth View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
killed in the rushing of the gates. “It was a horrible story, and I couldn’t help but take note of the supply-and-demand imbalance,” he recalls. Two weeks later, Bill Keating (MBA 1993) introduced him to Bryce Fort, managing director at... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
CLARK: John has been very supportive of what we've been doing over the past sixteen months, and he's been actively involved in a couple of our ongoing initiatives. We still meet pretty regularly to compare notes on key topics. There... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
aware of the experiment. The researchers tracked the employees’ sales performance before and after the experiment, noting how a quota change would affect the historical top salespeople as well as the historical worst performers. They... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
School. "There is this real squeeze on certain parts of the community—housing prices are out of sight, the middle class is leaving, and homelessness is a serious problem. This is in the face of great prosperity for many technology... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
were academic. What excited most of us, I think, was the prospect of doing something real. Twenty-five years later, better than half the respondents to our class survey answered "Yes" when asked, "Do you consider yourself an... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
rejected. As a result, he resigned from the board of the organization he had founded to promote the sport that he loved. Today, Swearengin, an attorney who for 14 years has represented companies facing class action litigation and... View Details
- 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
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706037 Supplement (B), 707-025: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707025 Competing Through Business Models (A) Harvard Business School Module Note 708-452... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
note explains Cuba's past and current agriculture policies and provides insights into its future potential as relations with the U.S. normalize. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-090.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsChina Rising: An Economic Snapshot Harvard Business School Note 308-064 "Rising China: An Economic Snapshot" provides readers with an overview of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
was premised on an allegory about hillbillies, which working class people outside America's cities found valuable at a time when American ideology was all about engineering life and technological progress. Holt describes the geographical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Research in Black and White | Baker Library
advantage of Polaroid’s support for education, Morse attended courses in chemistry at Harvard and MIT. (6) The Polaroid Research Seminars in the Organic Research Lab also offered classes in organic chemistry and organic chemical theory,... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
(MBA 1985), a senior lecturer at HBS. “I was the oldest, from the Class of 1981, while the youngest one on the panel graduated in 2018,” says Donaher. “Every panelist gave a summary of their experience as an LGBTQ person on campus at HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
perks, small non-cash rewards like access to valuable online classes or fitness programs can also contribute to well-being. Other non-cash rewards, such as notes of appreciation from clients, can also... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812033-PDF-ENG Chris and Alison Weston (A) Sandra J. Sucher and Celia MooreHarvard Business School Case 612-019 Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne