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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

By: Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li
The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private... View Details
Keywords: Price; Religion; Entrepreneurship; Education
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  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it enables the local entrepreneur to put equity into this cooperative venture, which mitigates an agency problem that would otherwise deter the foreign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders

By: Robert Simons

This project studies the life choices made by a variety of people who have left a lasting legacy. Using biographical data, we are examining the choices that high-impact individuals faced in their lives and the paths they chose to follow. The leaders we study come... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Work-life Balance; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Success
  • 16 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

problems and the HBS classroom challenges me to critically think about everything I say and do. But my background has been the most significant... View Details
  • Profile

Tara Basu Trivedi

challenges regardless of what was going on in her personal life and regardless of the barriers and social norms that society imposed. What’s the best thing about your hometown?... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Hummy Song, Wharton

  • 18 May 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Committee, and serves on the Mayo Clinic and American Red Cross boards. Davis leads with unimpeachable integrity. When arch-rival Wells Fargo encountered its problems with... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • July 2015
  • Case

Uncharted Play (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ali Huberlie
The case recounts the process of launching an early stage venture, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product launch, and fund raising. It emphasizes the Customer Value Proposition of the business model, and asks – Who is... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage; Female Protagonist; Value Proposition; Team Building; Founders' Agreements; Start-up; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Business Startups; Sports; United States; North America; Nigeria; Africa
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  • Web

Online Learning Model | HBS Online

Harvard Business School’s signature case method. Business leaders will share challenges they’ve faced. As the story unfolds, you’ll leverage course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, View Details
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

adaptation, mitigation, and (to an extent) innovation, while also facing issues of climate justice. By examining the highly climate-vulnerable Miami area, we can identify the leadership challenges of finding... View Details
  • November 2015 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

Allianz Turkey: Focus on the Customer (A)

By: W. Earl Sasser and Gamze Yucaoglu
At the age of 39, Solmaz Altın took over the helm at Allianz Turkey. Solmaz quickly realized that, although the insurance market was thinly penetrated in Turkey, the company was operating in a very competitive environment with pressure on prices and, hence, cost... View Details
Keywords: Service Excellence; Customer Experience; Customer Service; Emerging Market; Customer Focus; Net Promoter Score; Customer Relationship Management; Competition; Leading Change; Service Operations; Emerging Markets; Customer Satisfaction; Insurance Industry; Turkey
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  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

clear line of sight for identifying and challenging the least valuable resources," Baxter continues. All too often, the CEO must opt for across-the-board cuts—even though he knows that this approach... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 27 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

"We still have no assigned membership to specific teams over time. I think it speaks to the subtle interpersonal challenges we face trying to catch and work with relative strangers, View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators. The challenge in designing third-party monitoring regimes is that profit-driven private monitors, typically selected View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

inspectors find safety problems is not surprising," says Michael W. Toffel, an associate professor and the Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. At the same time, when View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Research Summary

Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

  • September 2016
  • Case

Hotel Vertu: Financing the Venture in the Boutique Hotel Industry

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Two recent MBA graduates are considering a business opportunity in the boutique hotel industry. Having found a seemingly attractive property in Savannah, Georgia, Yvonne D'Arcy and Elisabeth Whiting face questions about financing, deal structure, and unequal power... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Accommodations Industry
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Impact Stories - Impact Stories

Impact Stories Impact Stories Play Fraudulent Billing and Safety Net Hospitals Jonas Heese The Godmother of Consumer-Driven Health Care Regina E. Herzlinger Each New Class Brings Opportunity Robert S. Huckman 09 Apr 2025 VN Express... View Details
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Our Values | About

these and other issues that are affecting our School and campus. This is my purview as Dean and this is my responsibility to each of you. Our Values “And Thinking” is the idea... View Details