New York (city, NY) - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

the New York Times shows that the number two, the beta male who is theoretically the "nice guy" rather than the alpha male bully-ruler, has lower levels of disease-causing stress hormones—and also... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Journalism & News

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

powder, coinciding with the advent of the washing machine. In the same year, Lever's agreement with a New York agent to sell its soap everywhere beyond New England was... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

29 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

Equity Team in the Vaccine Operations Center, whose goals are to achieve maximum vaccination levels in New York City, to close the vaccination gap between different boroughs... View Details

May 1994 (Revised August 1994)
Case

Motorola-Elma

By: Shoshana Zuboff and Janis Lee Gogan

Motorola's old automative electronics plant in Arcade, outside Buffalo, New York, faced the prospect of closure in the mid-1980s, but leading customers persuaded Motorola to give the plant a second chance. The new plant manager, Dennis Fiehn, recognized that existing... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Exit or Shutdown; Customers; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; New York (state, US)

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22 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

of a recent election. Or perhaps the training data contains copyrighted data that we might not have permission to use, creating litigation risk for companies that train on that data. Just last week the New View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

on whether they are harming their children—because they are not.” Welcome news Three years ago, McGinn and colleagues got some pushback when preliminary findings were included in a New View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Advancing Racial Equity

Retreating From D.E.I. Re: Ranjay Gulati 13 MAR 2025 | New York Times In National DEI Dismantle, Corporate Charity Efforts Could Be Next Re: F. Warren McFarlan 17 FEB 2025 | CNBC Rethinking DEI Training?... View Details

02 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

When it comes to entrepreneurship, nothing says success like a track record of previous wins. Entrepreneurs with a history of success are much more likely to succeed in new ventures than first-timers or those who failed previously, View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

02 May 2023
What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

Worried, But He Knows You Might Be,” The New York Times, April 2, 2023. Cade Metz, “Tech Leaders Urge a Pause in A.I., Citing ‘Profound Risks to Society,” The New View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Drawdown Fund with Paul Hawken, editor of the New York Times best-selling book on climate solutions called Drawdown, and the strategic choices that set their fund operations apart from others. He also... View Details

February 2015 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Quincy Apparel (A)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lisa Mazzanti

Quincy Apparel designs, manufactures and sells work apparel for young professional women that offers the fit and feel of high-end brands at a lower price. In late 2012, Quincy's cofounders are debating how to approach a crucial board meeting. Their seed-stage startup... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Failure; Online Retail; Women's Apparel; Business Startups; Business Plan; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Production; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; Fashion Industry; New York (city, NY)

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3 PM – 7:30 PM PST, 15 Nov 2017

HBS Alumnae Circles Open House & Training 2017: Palo Alto

HBS Alumnae Circles are taking new members - are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

3 PM – 8 PM EDT, 25 Oct 2017

HBS Alumnae Circles Open House & Training 2017: Boston

HBS Alumnae Circles are taking new members - are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

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Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program - Entrepreneurship

Partner Photon Venture Partners Alex Jiang Alpha Startup Fund Beijing, China Michael Kaplan Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer MKaps LLC Mickey Konson CEO Quantum Financial Technologies Washington DC Kelsey Morgan Pasqualichio New... View Details

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All Locations - Recruiting

65% Receiving Boston - MA 11% $150k 25th Percentile Base $175k Median $192k 75th Percentile Base $30k 46% Receiving $48k 69% Receiving New England (Except Boston) 4% $131k 25th Percentile Base $165k Median $200k 75th Percentile Base $27k... View Details

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

faith in the power of technology to solve their problems. (In fact, the Occupy Wall Street generation may be more likely to trust a fintech company than a big New York banking firm.) Moreover, millennials... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

02 Sep 2015
What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

This past month, a New York Times report on Amazon’s personnel strategies prompted several days of intense debate. A number of questions can be raised about the article itself, given the fact that much of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

fueling the country’s greatest economic downturn since the crash of 1929. On September 16, 2008, one day after Lehman’s collapse, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lent $85 billion to the global insurance... View Details

March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
Case

Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Sydney Ribot and Mary Saunders

Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions to green-building conundrums through consulting, research, and policy-related activities. Emphasis is placed on the... View Details