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    Marketing Metaphoria

    Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis

    By: Jialan Wang, Jeyul Yang, Benjamin Iverson and Raymond Kluender
    We examine the impact of the COVID-19 economic crisis on business and consumer bankruptcies in the United States using real-time data on the universe of filings. Historically, bankruptcies have closely tracked the business cycle and contemporaneous unemployment rates.... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; COVID-19; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Crisis; Health Pandemics; United States
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    • 12 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

    right kind of competition working. The health care system can achieve stunning gains in quality and efficiency. And employers, the major purchasers of health care services, could lead the transformation. [ ] Positive-sum Competition In a healthy system, competition at... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
    • 09 Aug 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure

    Keywords: by Anil R. Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell & Michael W. Toffel
    • 2020
    • Book

    Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

    By: Thomas J. DeLong
    The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details
    Keywords: Teaching; Leadership; Attitudes; Management; Business Education
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    • 31 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

    generally, America has typically received about half of all skilled immigrants to OECD countries, much to the envy of other countries. At the highest level of talent, America’s special position has been even more rarified. Over the last... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 09 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

    micrograms of total suspended particulates per cubic meter, yet the World Health Organization establishes 90 as a maximum safe level (Berlin's level is 50). Over 25,000 square kilometers of land were... View Details
    Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
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    Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

    When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
    Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India
    • 2015
    • Chapter

    The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
    Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to their curricula. Scholars pursue sustainability... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Natural Environment; Leading Change; Management Systems
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    • September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
    • Case

    IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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    • 10 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 10, 2008

    the highest levels of the executive search business. In response, Kelly had begun making strategic investments in firms offering technology-based solutions, but had not yet made significant progress convincing Heidrick's search... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 Jan 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Smart Money: The Effect of Education, Cognitive Ability, and Financial Literacy on Financial Market Participation

    Keywords: by Shawn Cole & Gauri Kartini Shastry; Education; Financial Services
    • 23 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS

    dormitories. When we graduated, we set our sights on studying in the US and - as your typical nerds - we both went into engineering. I studied Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and Kevin went into Chemical Engineering at the View Details
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    Academic Programs | About

    perspective and lead at a higher level. Online Online certificate courses, led by award-winning faculty, to help you master essential business concepts. MBA Joint Degrees In collaboration with Harvard University graduate schools, Harvard... View Details
    • 01 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

    Technology on Firm Organization," a paper she cowrote with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. "Technologies that make... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 11 Oct 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006

    2002, fell nine spots to 64, according to the ISC. "This year's decline was driven especially by higher levels of corruption, weaker assessment of buyer sophistication, and concerns about labor relations," the study found. Also... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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    Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

    experience. If you are unsure whether your background has prepared you sufficiently, consider your familiarity with the topics covered in Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al. Students are expected to be knowledgeable with that View Details
    • 09 Jan 2020
    • Blog Post

    Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

    Previously, she held roles at Glossier, Spotify, and YouTube. Carlyn received her B.A. from Stanford University and currently lives in Los Angeles. What was your career plan when you arrived at HBS? In my role leading up to HBS, I had... View Details
    • 26 Sep 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News

    Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Dong Lou & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services
    • 25 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)

    think differently about even the everyday misfortunes that we all face. To test the relationship between cash and life satisfaction, Jachimowicz and his colleagues from the University of Southern California, Groningen University, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding