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- January 2017
- Supplement
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and public outrage. It had learned years earlier in a prominent case about how fast viral content spreads and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
initially lower profitability but higher growth potential. This sample-selection effect determines the secular trend in U.S. public firms’ cash holdings. A stylized firm industry model allows us to analyze two competing changes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
future promotion. The findings indicate that adverse selection concerns on the extensive margin of retaining workers drive the empirical regularity that firms rarely reduce compensation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54422... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004
Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury
- May 2021
- Supplement
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise, Instructor Version
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Harvard Business School spends a significant amount of research funds each year on the health care industry, answering questions such as: How can the business of health care be made more efficient? What can a business do to motivate... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
system. Natalia Rigol Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School In the private sector, in public life or even at HBS, women who look like me or have my background – immigrant,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
international levels, using the collapse of the cod fishing industry as an example, and discussing the economics and politics of the fishery in classical terms of externalities and public goods. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
that extended management theory and improved management practice. This paper draws upon public sources and the authors’ personal experiences to describe how three management consulting companies created and sustained several big... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
Data Science Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Nicolò Fusi General Manager Microsoft Research Sham Kakade Co-Director Harvard University Kempner Institute Armen Mkrtchyan Origination Partner Flagship... View Details
Jeffrey F. Rayport
Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
up here. Prof. Greg Greenough of the Harvard School of Public Health is directing researchers interested in everything from the pH of the Ganga to the quality and quantity of toilets to the structure of the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
financing private ventures, it can also offer unique rewards. Harvard Business School associate professor Walter Kuemmerle highlighted some of the issues confronting entrepreneurs and investors in a case discussion on Gray Security... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Organizational Behavior - Doctoral
Seegars, 2021 Harvard Business School Advisors: Robin J. Ely (Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan , and Michele Lamont Karen Huang, 2020 Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
and shared significant export agribusiness sectors, but whose organic food sector became significantly larger. While the power of incumbent vested interests and unsupportive public policies emerge as major explanatory factors, the article... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
issue is how effective such measures have been and whether they can successfully be sustained. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-023 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470905905,descCd-tableOfContents.html Working PapersComparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms Authors:John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
and the era’s commercial-political relations. The Commercial Revolution anticipated the Industrial Revolution by over half a millennium and laid the groundwork for today’s world of global business. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne