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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
together and derive comprehensive solutions. This really clicked when we had a case on child labor. This, to me, was a clearly abhorrent situation. Why would it be OK to have 10-year-old children chained while stitching soccer balls?... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
very good at predicting either supply or demand in the oil industry," Stobaugh observes. "A little less than two years ago the price of oil was $10 or $11 a barrel. Now it's up around $30. Very few people predicted that, and those who did were not believed. "The demand... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
terms of the strokes or putts gained per round relative to the field. Using this metric, we can determine what portion of a player's overall performance is due to advantage (or loss) gained through putting, and conversely, what portion of the player's performance is... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
provide analysis and derive general insights from this negotiation campaign. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52027 Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments By: Sebenius,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
fund and, through covered call writing, to increase earned income that can be used to support cash dividend distributions. Although the administrative situation is fictional, the data contained in the case are real. The case is best positioned at the beginning of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44724 Strategic Search Diversion, Product Affiliation and Platform Competition By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien Abstract—Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
knowledge flow not from bench-side-to-bedside, but from bedside-to-bedside. New insights derived from practice can be brought to bear for the benefit of each subsequent patient. Some health-care organizations, such as Intermountain... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
percent of total tuition for all students, in fiscal 2024. Average fellowship support per student totaled nearly $47,000 in fiscal 2024, representing an increase of 7 percent from the prior year. Financial support for scholarships is View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
matter who funds it? How does it evolve logically over time? What insights could you derive from studying that particular set of circumstances, where there’s lots of uncertainty and lots of agency problems, meaning that one group may not... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
What are the benefits of this integration? A: One benefit derives from the literature itself. Through the novels, plays, short stories, and historical accounts students are brought much closer to life as it is really lived, certainly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
products. Stock predicts that the development pace for personalized therapeutics and preventive diagnostics will pick up speed, thanks to the beneficial add-on effects derived from identifying more and more biomarkers for particular... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
are low, and some useless care is bought even when patients face the full cost. In the presence of behavioral hazard, welfare calculations using only the demand curve can be off by orders of magnitude or even be the wrong sign. We derive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
"strategic"-with marketing people developing a marketing-centric strategy and favoring the marketing side of business-and derives two rational mechanisms for this outcome, one confidence-based and the other implementation-based.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Science of Viral Ads Author:Thales Teixeira Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract It's the holy grail of digital marketing: the viral ad, a pitch that large numbers of viewers decide to share with family and friends. Several techniques... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
filing of the 13D. Informed traders find it profitable to concentrate their trades with a leaking broker because the loss due to the information leakage is more than compensated by the gains derived from trading on the information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
the ultimate wealth that feeds the local economy derives heavily from the traded economy. Therefore, the US economy's inability to generate net new jobs in the traded sector for the last decade is deeply disturbing. Also, the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
resource deployment. Methodology: The predictive model developed is based on a regression tree combined with copula-based simulations. We generalize the tree method to predict complete distributions, moving beyond point forecasts. To View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
prospects of females. However, Edlund (1999) proposes an (as yet untested) theory that, in environments where hypergamy is practiced and parents derive utility from married children, a male-skewed sex ratio can generate a permanent female... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
in studying these complex social systems. I have made a deliberate choice to focus primarily on research that reflects firsthand experience with boards rather than on research that utilizes data derived from questionnaires and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
company was still dealing with multiple purported class action and derivative lawsuits that had been filed against it. It was during this time the board started looking for candidates both for the CEO and chairman positions. In December... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne