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- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
excessive delays, poor quality, overtime, or stressed employees. Whichever approach you prefer, it's important not to be overly sensitive to small errors. The objective is to be approximately right, say within 5 percent to 10 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
affects each of Porter's Five Forces as well as the resources and capabilities of the firm. The availability of patents may be key to deciding what barriers to entry exist. The enforceability of covenants... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
be aware of the range of powerful, dynamic, and often conflicting forces shaping the emerging competitive environment. The globalization of markets, the increasing homogeneity of customer needs worldwide, the impact of the digital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
by consolidating some of their credit card debt saw a deterioration in those scores months down the line as they began to use their credit lines to consume more goods, from purchasing a car to buying everyday items, the researchers found.By a year after the fintech... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
decisions. In Seattle alone, Yelp, which launched in 2005, had accumulated 60,000 reviews by 2009, rating 70 percent of the city's restaurants. By contrast, The Seattle Times had reviewed roughly 5 percent. Luca chose to investigate Yelp... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Fall HBS faculty on the causes of the 2008 global financial crisis—and how to prevent the next one Complete Table of Contents June 2018 The Long Run What happens when the unstoppable force of Jim Langford meets a seemingly immovable... View Details
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AASU50 - Alumni
Cunningham was one of 27 men who received the Master in Business Administration degree in 1915. Between 1915 and 1968, there were a total 42 black graduates of HBS with many class years having no black graduates at all. The representation of blacks at HBS took a major... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
by understanding the role of hormone levels. ©iStock.com/VIPDesignUSA For eons, academics have studied the forces behind unethical acts, disturbed and intrigued by scary real-world data on corporate corruption. The Association of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
sure employees were being honest in their beliefs about others’ compensation, the researchers, working with the bank’s HR department, offered monetary rewards for employees who accurately guessed the average salaries of others. They found that less than a third were... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
aftermath of a deal in one of two ways: as a side effect of what some executives called “getting rid of the deadwood,” or as an intentional drive by the larger firm to create a more defined diversity policy. “Both forces are at play,” he... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
much dining hall sushi?). We know this semester will be challenging since our new seats have forced us into a long distance relationship, but our relationship will be sustained by constant eye contact and shenanigans outside of the... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
the ESG investing. 5 Technologies That Will Change the World. How Will They Affect Your Journey as a Leader? Professor Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980) + More Info – Less Info E.O. Wilson observed that the “real problem of humanity is that we... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
significantly improve the performance and satisfaction of workers and boost the chances of hiring them permanently, according to the results of the study by Harvard Business School professors Iavor I. Bojinov and Prithwiraj Choudhury and HBS postdoctoral fellow... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands - MBA
realized that oil and gas may not be the career I was looking for due to the industry’s adverse environmental impact. The world was starting to move on to cleaner and more sustainable energy. I was deeply confused as it felt like I had just wasted View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Markets Featured Exercises Identify value creation and decompose its distribution to illustrate how trade occurs Examine the competitive landscape by differentiating long- and short-run market outcomes and forces 12 hrs Module View Details
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services
on the cluster. Version Changes When Loading Dependencies In some cases, a given module may require another modules to be loaded. If you have a any version of the latter module loaded, the former module will usually consider the dependency satisfied, rather than View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details