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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
cheese, he says. To increase transparency, the PensionBee website offers planning tools and primers to explain, in jargon-free detail, taxes and withdrawals and anything else you might be too embarrassed to ask about. The site has 300,000... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
have seen a lot of business situations over the years," says Callaghan. "We both have a pretty good sense of what works and what doesn't." "It's a great match, given our complementary skills," agrees McGee. "John focuses on the regulatory side; I focus on iCrowd and... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
severe vulnerabilities and 130 less severe vulnerabilities. Using data from Apache, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and other sources, the authors could track the server software used to host each organization’s website over... View Details
- 18 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
A Peek Inside Peek Weekend
[Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events.] What do Wellesley, Barnard, Smith, and Bryn Mawr have in common? You... View Details
- 17 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Student Conference: Climate Symposium 2021
Save the date for the 2nd Annual Harvard Business School Climate Symposium on Sunday, November 6th, 2022! Visit the website for more information and registration. ---------- This year, the Energy & Environment Club, Food, Agriculture... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off
contact to manage their Amazon account and partnered with a manufacturer to handle making the product. These moves allow them the time to not only focus on their day jobs, but also on the fun aspects of building a business, such as setting a growth strategy, thinking... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Liang and her team built filters that would spit out a list of the top-rated options available. Meanwhile in the evenings, to blow off steam, Liang took to her lifelong passion, which is dance. But finding new classes meant cross-checking various studio View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
climate change will be felt around the globe in the coming years. Learn more about the implications for business in this HBS Background Note (pdf). Visit RebeccaHenderson.com to find readings and course syllabi, and to pre-order her book, or go to the Business &... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412074-PDF-ENG The New York Times Paywall Vineet Kumar, Bharat Anand, Sunil Gupta, and Felix Oberholzer-GeeHarvard Business School Case 512-077 On March 28, 2011, The New York Times website... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
search engine optimization, the established and mostly accepted practice of optimizing website content for better search rankings. For decades, organizations have sought to improve their positioning in web searches by tinkering with... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
opted for short presentations followed by 1:1 company conversations or panel format events. Whichever event format you choose, Laurie always reminds companies, “if you try to do all sizzle and no steak, that’s not going to work. Also, make sure you go beyond... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
crowdsourcing, correct? Yes, you can post any sort of task—whether it's editing a document, providing website copy, or verifying directory entries—and people with the abilities and time available will bid on it. Companies like Elance and... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
experience, but they’re not set up to gather the anecdotes from all of their staff in order to come up with generalizable insights. So, I thought, how can we bridge the gap between the insights that research is producing with the managers who we’re trying to learn from... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
paragraphs to Google, which, by 2001, already was the 15th largest website in the United States. Despite this traffic, Google’s ecosystem impact was still modest at the time. The company was still a year away from adopting the paid search... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
Colleges and Universities), let alone Ivy League schools. Going through the process was my do-over to go after the best education available to me. You’ll hear this a lot, but there really are no HBS people, just people who happen to go to HBS. Shoot your shot. *Peek... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
years ago after a serious bike accident landed him in the hospital for a year. From his hospital room, he laid the groundwork and developed the team that would eventually launch alltricks.com in 2008, offering a user-friendly sports retail View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
revenue from the shipping fees because these are orders that qualify for free shipping." As one might expect, customers who visited the seller's website more frequently, as well as more recently, exhibited the highest demand and... View Details
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
reviewed by patients often enough for the overall ratings to carry credibility. The number of hotel night stayovers far exceeds the number of doctor visits. The same chicken-and-egg issue faces all website developers: you need consumers... View Details
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Over the past decade, socially-focused websites have attracted hundreds of millions of users and changed the social fabric in fundamental ways. The likes of eHarmony and Match.com enable us meet new people. Platforms including Facebook,... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
According to the Financial Times, "Anonymous encouraged 'hactivists' to download a simple tool-known as the 'low orbit ion cannon'-that allows their computers to be used to inundate the targeted website with requests and bring it... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett