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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Getting the Message

attractive outfit walked across the screen carrying a sign that pitched a product. These almost literal translations of billboard and magazine ads did little more than set the previous forms in motion. HBS professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk is a marketing expert who has... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In this paper we address the question of learning in a two-sided matching mechanism that utilizes the deferred acceptance algorithm. We consider a repeated matching game where at each period agents observe their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

Harvard Business School professor David A. Garvin has studied the development of the case method of teaching at Harvard's law, business, and medical schools. Garvin wanted to see how the schools are similar and different in their use of... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

other business practitioners. Much of the science discussed will unfold in the Allston complex's four buildings, which will house Harvard's initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

combined to offset separate bills' costs while preserving their net benefits. We argue this method can transform unpopular individual pieces of legislation, which would lack the support for implementation, into more popular policies. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

more elusive than ever. A recent McKinsey study reveals that the annual churn in the wireless industry increased from 17 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 2000. This trend holds true even in industries less susceptible to turnover. In core... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

(HBS MBA '81) had been getting together every year since graduation for a long weekend with ten of her female classmates. She observed that most of her friends dropped out of the workforce at some point in their post-HBS lives. Welsh... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

emergency medical workers, and medical researchers all demand cadavers or cadaver parts. As an illustration, orthopedic surgeons use human joints to fine-tune their skills to learn new procedures. Similarly, some researchers studying... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 11 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

really taking advantage of the opportunities for visibility that hackathons have to offer. To test the evangelizing effectiveness of hackathons, the researchers conducted a large‐scale quantitative study of 1,302 developers and 167... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 26 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid Technology and the board of governors of the American... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

tactical approaches, and assessment tools to help you develop your own influence style and understand political dynamics as they unfold around you. By focusing on specific expressions of power and influence, this course will give you the opportunity to View Details
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

but is also necessary to use tie-breaking for schools whose capacity is sufficient to accommodate some but not all students of a given priority class. We analyze a model that encompasses one-sided and two-sided matching models. We first View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

  PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into the social psychology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

less likely to commercialize social ventures than male founders. But female-led organizations in areas with a higher concentration of female-run businesses were much more likely to commercialize their ventures than those in areas where female-run businesses were rare.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

one misdeed. Source: Sam Howzit/CC by 2.0 “Going into it I had no idea if I was actually going to find the relationship as strong as it was,” Minor says. Once Minor decided to study risk preference and misconduct, picking a “real world”... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
  • Web

Teaching & The Case Method | Baker Library

Discussion Teaching,” Education for Judgment . 1 HBS cases average 10 to 20 pages of text followed by supporting exhibits of tables and illustrations. Students break into small groups to study cases and practice presenting their analyses.... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

to identify disruptive ideas" which often result from observations of the circumstances in which potential customers "hire" products or services to achieve a result. The catch is that no organization, in the opinion of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Teaching & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

University Professor, Education for Judgment, 1991. 19 HBS cases average 10 to 20 pages of text followed by supporting exhibits of tables and illustrations. Students break into small groups to study cases and practice presenting their... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

Strömberg Publication:The Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel