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11 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

pieces of what makes a full career for me. I was having dinner earlier this year with a friend who is a career coach. We were talking about the career versus family identity crisis, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

4 PM – 5 PM EDT, 07 Apr 2021
Virtual Programming

Sports As A Classroom: Lessons in Leadership, Diversity, Inclusion & Impact from Women in Sports

Join us for a virtual panel discussion with some of Harvards sports leaders as they share lessons about the importance of diversity, the impact of inclusion, and their journey to successful leaders. Panelists: Tari Cash, Founder & CEO at City Swing Golf, Harvard... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

core principles of family, faith, free enterprise, and entrepreneurship. Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on education and upward... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Aug 2015
News

Father and Daughter Both Drew the World Close

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

purchases. This approach would not only insure more people, but could lead to more innovative, less costly approaches to generating medical breakthroughs, the team says. Chandra, who is the Henry and Allison McCance View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

friends and acquaintances and reconnect with faces from the past. First college students, then Millennials, and soon after, their parents View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

veterans, and facilitate externally-funded fellowships like the Black Family Fellowship, Timothy Day Fellowship, and others. Individual financial circumstances dictate much of... View Details

08 Dec 2015
Research Event

Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference

and institutions, and the post 1990s economy. Also covered was family business, a key to understanding the evolution of the Indian economy—like that in many emerging markets.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

08 May 2025
Blog Post

Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

friction in development processes—translating to $85 billion in lost global GDP. Quotient discovers the top areas of friction that slow down engineering teams, and leverages AI to resolve it directly. Did you always want to start a... View Details

28 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

treat serious medical conditions,” says Ariel D. Stern, the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Stern cowrote the December 2022 working paper with Amitabh Chandra, the Henry and Allison McCance View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

2012
Working Paper

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

By: Alvin J. Silk

What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States

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29 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

emotions can play in negotiations. Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles Poorly designed leadership roles set up a family business for failure. John A. Davis offers a system that produces the... View Details

15 Aug 2012
News

The Starbucks of Nightclubs

23 Aug 2019
Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

point in my career where it was time to pivot. With the encouragement of dear friends and mentors, I stepped away from Silicon Valley and enrolled at HBS to refine my technical... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

Web

The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

— John Heard referring to the hong merchants, from his diary, 1891 10 The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System During the period known as the Canton trade system (1757–1842), hong merchants acted as exclusive liaisons between... View Details

25 Mar 2021
News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

equity and increase diversity and inclusion, Nohria strengthened core aspects of the HBS experience. The impact of these achievements on the School and on society at large will... View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

Article

Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand's Social Network on Marketing Outcomes

By: Leslie K. John, Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta and Michael I. Norton

Does “liking” a brand on Facebook cause a person to view it more favorably? Or is “liking” simply a symptom of being fond of a brand? We disentangle these possibilities and find evidence for the latter: brand attitudes and purchasing are predicted by consumers’... View Details

Keywords: Brands; Marketing Effectiveness; Brand Evaluation; Peer Influence; Brands and Branding; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media