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01 Jun 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

this service is available on the Alumni Web site - another good reason to check it out! Thanks so much for all you do to keep our alumni network alive and thriving. Communication is key to this equation, and I encourage you to stay in... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

search, digital, print, radio, and television that I would have used for Guinness or Captain Morgan when I was at Diageo. The only real difference between the Postal Service and any of the other brands I’ve worked on is that we are... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

violation of Facebook's terms of service as a non-copyright holder was using the imagery and logo associated with a known brand. Facebook contacted Michael Donnelly, Group Director, Worldwide Interactive Marketing for The Coca-Cola... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

01 Jun 2003
News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

Srivatsa Krishna "I believe my life will have value only if it can add value to the lives of others." Currently: on sabbatical from the Indian Administrative Service, India's elite top management civil service cadre Hometown: New Delhi... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

interview. Among their findings: In the 1960s and 1970s, MBAs graduated with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they’d hire an MBA. According to several deans, that’s no longer true. Financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services

2023
Working Paper

The International Price of Remote Work

By: Agostina Brinatti, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino and Andres Drenik

We study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market using data from a large web-based job platform, where workers from around the world compete for remote jobs. Despite the global nature of the platform, we find that remote wages are higher... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Exchange Rates; Purchasing Power Parity; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Macroeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Wages; Trade; Globalization; Marketplace Matching; Currency Exchange Rate; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry

01 Jun 2023
News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

08 Feb 2016
News

Going Against the Flow: Lynn Vojvodich, CMO of Salesforce

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they deliver can actually improve. Studies in food service show how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

What’s next in finance? Is bitcoin an inflation shield? What’s your favorite weightlifting exercise? Lauren Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently answered these and other questions about his work, workouts,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

13 Oct 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

Keywords: by Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend, and Yulia Zhestkova; Financial Services

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

Are financial crises predictable? Former United States Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke has had his doubts. Economics can show policymakers “precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong,” he told Princeton University graduates in 2013. “About the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

15 Sep 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Time and the Value of Data

Keywords: by Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani, and Marco Iansiti; Web Services

29 Jun 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Measuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market

Keywords: by Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam; Financial Services

26 Jun 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Weak Credit Covenants

Keywords: by Victoria Ivashina and Boris Vallée; Financial Services

25 Jun 2019
Cold Call Podcast

In the Platform Economy, Upwork Searches for Better Matches in the Cloud

Keywords: Re: David B. Yoffie; Web Services

08 Nov 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers

Keywords: by Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru; Legal Services

20 Feb 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Stock Market Returns and Consumption

Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, and Kaveh Majlesi; Financial Services

10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

iPhoto In the blink of an instant, a corporate brand can turn from sterling to tarnished. Just ask Volkswagen or Wells Fargo—two prestigious names that have become associated with scandal in recent years, and now become synonymous with shady corporate practices. What... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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