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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
implement a rigorous analytical framework for empirically evaluating the relative performance of firm-level expected-return proxies (ERPs). We show that superior proxies should closely track true expected returns both cross sectionally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
and consumer lending. The researchers chose to study risk-management experts because their role has risen in importance with demands for improved corporate governance and the need for better forecasting and modeling. After the financial... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
services and software space has been consistently strong. Students are also joining technology companies that overlap in retail, heath care, and other direct to consumer industries as they find roles in companies that align directly with... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
people are chronically disappointed and frustrated by their experiences as consumers and employees. We no longer trust large organizations to serve our needs. On every level, we are experiencing a divisive "us vs. them"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
just given it—conditional versus unconditional. Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit, and Das Narayandas, the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration, explain what kind of bump managers can expect from... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Western and white beauty ideals emerged as the global standard. The momentum of this standard was reinforced by the impact of Hollywood and other drivers of an international consumer culture from the interwar years. However the study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
phone bills at home. Major organizations will be essentially ready. I do expect a period of transition and inconvenience such as we are now experiencing at times with credit cards. And government agencies must work to catch up if they are... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
and was recently appointed to chair the HBS Doctoral Programs. Never expecting to stand in front of a classroom herself, she remembers taking for granted her professors' skills in leading discussions. "Much to my chagrin later on, I did... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Museum's Web site are increasing dramatically — with well over two million expected this year. The Field has also branched out into distance learning with a program that reaches people who otherwise could not visit the museum. "We put a... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
impact coming from? Lisa Lewin: First, I think what we have seen from consumers has been incredible. Their increasing commitment to spending money on companies and brands aligned with their values has been an incredible, catalyzing force... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
Inclusive leadership is also going to require agility, because you will need to have a better understanding. And Gen Z and the millennials, their expectation is that you will have an understanding of them and create a sense of belonging... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Torras (MBA '50) established Preco Corp., a pulp and paper operation, creating more than one thousand jobs. In consumer services, David S. Paresky (MBA '65) opened Crimson Travel Service in Harvard Square a few months after graduation and... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Publication:Journal of Consumer Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract The strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable vs. unfavorable)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
first venture capital firms to go global with partners in London and Beijing. In a recent interview at his Palo Alto, California, office, Breyer talked about tech investing, Chinese entrepreneurs, and Washington politics. Accel closed a $520 million fund, your tenth,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
registered users. Revenues last year exceeded $7 billion. eBay’s remarkable impact on society and com-merce is hard to ignore. Whitman, who stepped down from the helm in March, now serves as national cochair of John McCain’s presidential... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne