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- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718039 Harvard Business School Case 517-064 Note on the Impact of Millennials on the Food System In 2016, the millennial generation (those age 19 to 35 in 2016), the largest generation by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
studied music and hosted a late-night jazz radio show. When he graduated from college, Nelson took a job with Boston-based Wellman International and immediately set off for China. “I had no idea what I was getting into,” he says. “But it was a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Working PapersOn Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions Authors:Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz Abstract How should players bid in keyword auctions such as those used View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated with career penalties in the form of a reduced bonus, smaller... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
spells. Money Is a Creativity Motivator. The experimental research that has been done on creativity suggests that money isn’t everything. In the diary study, we asked people, “To what extent were you motivated by rewards today?” Quite... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
What's My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking
By: Zoë B. Cullen, Shengwu Li and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
While U.S. legislation prohibits employers from sharing information about their employees’
compensation with each other, companies are still allowed to acquire and use more aggregated
data provided by third parties. Most medium and large firms report using this type... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
academic and professional career, and learned an insane amount all by putting learning into action. What is FIELD 1? FIELD 1 takes place in your first semester at HBS and lasts about two months. It is a deep dive into what makes you tick... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Verdell Walker, Sesame Workshop
organization where every employee is truly united and motivated by a singular goal. SW combines fun media with enriching, meticulously crafted curriculum to address children’s critical developmental needs in the U.S. and across the world.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- July 2021
- Article
Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms
By: Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato
We study the growth of online peer-to-peer markets. Using data from TaskRabbit, an expanding marketplace for domestic tasks at the time of our study, we show that growth varies considerably across cities. To disentangle the potential drivers of growth, we look... View Details
Keywords: Two-sided Market; Two-sided Platforms; Peer-to-peer Markets; Platform Strategy; Sharing Economy; Platform Growth; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Design; Network Effects
Cullen, Zoë, and Chiara Farronato. "Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021): 3985–4003.
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
of his employees. It’s also delivered by way of a program that creates access to earned wages before payday to alleviate the need for payday loans, a commitment to annual wage increases, and an emergency assistance fund to get people... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Reunions 2024 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when permission is given View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
the official site. For more on the Women's Student Association, visit wsahbsclub.com. Taylor Clarkson Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 Being mixed is a experience shared by many, but discussed by few. My... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
Mela, a three-month-long Hindu festival. We estimate that the festival was attended by 61 million people, making it the largest gathering in the history of humanity. While we find strong overall evidence for both types of homophily for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne