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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Collection Guide The George U. Sands business records contain account books, letter books, and unbound papers reflecting Sands’ activity in the management of the Patent Slip and Dock Company, the Novelty Iron Works, and the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
straightforward, 15-step program to find a mate, using familiar marketing tactics such as packaging, branding, and, yes, even telemarketing. Greenwald wrote another best-selling book in 2009, Have Him at Hello: Confessions from 1,000 Guys... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
new faculty need to thrive in terms of both teaching and research. The Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning has been particularly helpful on this front. It enables new faculty who may not be familiar with case-method teaching to... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
R. PiperHarvard Business School Note 911-412 The case provides students with (1) an understanding of the essence of long-term financial health; (2) familiarity with the calculation and meaning of various financial ratios; and (3) an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
familiarity with a large number of companies. An economist working in a tech company, on the other hand, might mainly have knowledge of his or her own firm. As economists work on questions their companies want answered, one challenge for... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
they’d shopped there before, and one for customers without them. They found little difference in the buying behavior of the two groups. “Both new and existing customers behave in ways that are beneficial to the seller,” Ngwe says, “perhaps because customers are so... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone, for example, replaced by a... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
the longer their tenure at a hybrid organization, the more probable it is that top managers hire junior employees. "What we expect is that the more time they spend in a hybrid context, the more likely the managers are to become familiar... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
moral obligation to at least try to be the best at everything, even if the overall result of that can, in fact, be counterproductive. Could you give an example of that? Frei: Well, we’re all pretty familiar with the litany of problems in... View Details
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
organizations, including the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. So in 2003, when he knew it was time to finally pursue his long-held dream, he was familiar with the landscape. “My observation... View Details
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
models Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it might acquire new customers Sketch an idea for a platform that a company you’re familiar with might launch and determine the transition’s feasibility and obstacles Module Review and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
conference. Such affronts were all too familiar in a country that, at the time, had few women entrepreneurs. When an agent finally responded, he gave Russo serious pause by showing a building far larger than she had stipulated. Upon... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
I am deeply familiar with Ukrainian culture, and I speak decent Ukrainian. I have my mother and my brother in Ukraine and numerous friends there (safe now). Almost half of my company's employees are based there (running a FinTech company... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
can take these approaches and bring them to market. About 15 years ago, this was viewed as very exotic and different. Now, there are enough examples in the economy—from Wikipedia as an open source and InnoCentive as a crowdsourcing company—so that people are more View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
brand on a supermarket shelf in Parma a few years ago. She then met Francesco Mutti when he attended Harvard Business School's Executive Education Agribusiness Seminar, held that year in São Paulo, Brazil. "Because he was from Parma and I am View Details
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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services
http://huit.harvard.edu/information-technology-policies . Guest collaborators are also required to keep RCS informed of any changes in contact information. In addition, researchers should make themselves familiar with the university... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big money is... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the quality of research. Does Familiarity Breed Trust? Revisiting the Antecedents of Trust Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Periodical:Managerial and Decision Economics 29 (March - April 2008): 165-190 Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
Twitter—establishing an account, getting people to follow the firm, and hoping that those people will respond in kind. Such strategies have allowed firms to engage in an activity that's very familiar to them: broadcasting content to... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
on-site from what was happening around me, and only focus on my note writing. In addition, I handled my field intimacy by discussing my data analyses with two senior colleagues throughout the writing of this project. One colleague was very View Details