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- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
as pessimism about future economic opportunities and verify that two similar equilibria emerge. Purchase this paper from SSRN: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12641 Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006
corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An additional explanation, considered... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
different to walk into HBS when you’re 23 years old, with the entrepreneurial bug, than when you’re older and [making a] big career move,” says the 28-year-old chief executive. “[But] I knew that if I didn’t go right after college, my View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
entrepreneur, e-commerce offers low cost of entry, wide reach, rapid scalability, and the opportunity for an MBA to start as CEO. When Senior Lecturer José Alvarez started teaching the MBA Retailing elective... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
Potts argued—it is when we are confronted with such loss that we can respond with the necessary energy and compassion. “Knowing that something can be lost is how you love it,” said Potts. “When we think about the human cost of climate... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6
of others contributes to suboptimal outcomes. Yet sometimes, an excess of cynicism appears to lead us to overthink the actions of others and make negative attributions about their motivations without sufficient cause. In the process, we may miss View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Study 1) and real tasks involving the opportunity to cheat (Studies 2 and 3), we find that dishonest behavior increased moral disengagement and motivated forgetting of moral rules. Such changes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni
associated costs to anticipate? There is no membership fee for the 2025 membership cycle. Some associated costs to participating may come up throughout the year: Commuting-related expenses, such as gas,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
with recycling and take-back programs. Next, we toured the Grundfos factory floor, which was an amazing opportunity to see in-person their vertical assembly for advanced manufacturing process. This layered approach is quite rare due to... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
to be the most efficient. The central insight of the theory is that each method offers a different way of aligning decision-making authority with valuable "specific knowledge" inside the organization. The theory suggests that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
mind," Amira says. "I'm equally comfortable with the details of ground-level execution as I am with the big picture, 30,000-foot, pie-in-the-sky vision." In 2010, her personal and professional lives took a dramatic turn when her husband was offered the View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights
to start immediately? What’s the bottleneck? Independent Studies: I had the opportunity to work with Professor Jeff Bussgang diving into YCombinator - we work with hundreds of YC companies at Pilot! Finance: At a successful startup, the... View Details
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Transportation - Business & Environment
Battery costs for electric vehicles have dropped 85% since 2010. [38] Challenge Globally, transportation is the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions. Reducing GHGs from this sector is difficult because economic growth usually requires... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had moved to pursue educational View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive innovation as a threat to everything from Microsoft to Japan—and even to a certain prominent business school. But through that disruption comes improved quality of life—and major View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
fiscal 2024, compared with 21 percent in fiscal 2023. HBS Online HBS Online revenue increased by $2 million, or 3 percent, to $70 million in fiscal 2024. The result fell short of expectations, reflecting in part increased competition and higher View Details
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
simultaneously creating economic and societal value. Through project work with a diverse range of business partners, from established corporations to burgeoning startups, students will have an opportunity to gain practical insights into... View Details