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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
chain, linking consumers with producers affordably and flexibly. Accio Alex Zannos (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025) Business Track Crowd Favorite Streamline and automates the hardware manufacturing process. Social Enterprise... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?
from prior years of employment to direct toward the cost of your MBA. However, if you have debt that cannot be deferred while you are in school, work on paying that off first.It is important to think about any consumer debt you have as... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
Amazon execs to remain above it all.) And for a rental-dominated community, wouldn’t this wealthy influx of Amazonians drive up rents, housing prices, and real estate costs, forcing long-time residents and local independent businesses to move? Moreover, there was the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
research rethinks what academics and practitioners have simply called the supply chain—a loose federation of individual suppliers that feed companies with the goods and services necessary to create products for View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?
choose which goods to display. One set was from an algorithm that allocators could interpret, and the other was from a “black box” algorithm they couldn’t. Researchers then tested consumer reactions to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
laissez faire policy favors the better-regulated economy, level playing fields are good for weaker regulators. We show that multinational banking mitigates the cherry-picking effect and reduces the damage that a level playing field causes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis
from Euromonitor International. Technavio
Reports on a variety of global industries including technology, healthcare, retail, energy, aerospace, consumer goods and automotive. ... View Details
Reports on a variety of global industries including technology, healthcare, retail, energy, aerospace, consumer goods and automotive. ... View Details
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
while the book was in process. Today, strong ethics are a central issue for business leaders, knowing consumers are drawn to companies that do the right thing while steering clear of businesses that break ethical boundaries, Nelson says.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
business customers than at end consumers. There are some that consumers are increasingly seeing, like Fair Trade coffee or "sustainably harvested" labels for seafood. In handmade rugs you can find a number of labeling schemes like... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “There is a demand shock from consumers buying less, and a supply chain disruption in addition to the tariffs, which only makes things worse.” Cavallo presents the findings... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
joining Teach for America or law school, and then ultimately management consulting after college graduation. In consulting, Leahy had her first exposure to the retail industry, working primarily with clients in the retail banking and View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good news, as it is driven primarily by greater reporting rather than greater incidence of such crimes. In contrast, we find no increase in crimes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
prosociality in which a recipient of generosity pays a good deed forward to a third individual, rather than back to the original source of generosity. While research shows that human adults do indeed pay forward generosity, little is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
vertical chain and therefore come up with superior products. One tradeoff would therefore seem to be between large market share and high quality, of which the Microsoft/Apple comparison is a good illustration. Sony illustrates another... View Details
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Pharmaceuticals: Drug sales data
Cortellis. Additionally: SimplyAnalytics - After login, Specify location > select Data tab > select Consumer... View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
often supplies the idea. You can tap a button to grab the “original sound” of someone else’s TikTok, record your response, and seconds later you have your own video. It doesn’t have to be particularly clever or funny or even look good... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 17 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Price Coherence and Adverse Intermediation
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
premia determined mainly by the product of risk aversion and the nominal-real covariance. The concavity of the yield curve—the level of intermediate-term bond yields, relative to the average of short- and long-term bond yields—is a good... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
Through what at the time felt like sheer luck, I landed an internship at Procter & Gamble on the Dish Engineering team between my sophomore and junior year. That internship taught me a lot about what a “corporate job” in the Consumer... View Details