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21 Dec 2022
News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

explain the crisis in Ukraine Q&A with Paul Krobe, director of the Intelligence Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. COMMUNITY UPDATES DECEMBER 20 Faculty-founded Company Donates... View Details

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

07 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts

right approach.” In the new working paper The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment, Teixeira and HBS Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe propose that online stores take a page from their brick-and-mortar... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

managers do can have great impact on their workers, says Professor Teresa Amabile. In this conversation with Professor Mike Roberts, she updates her ongoing research on creativity in the workplace by investigating how people's intense... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2023
News

Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

of directors recognized the immediate past copresidents, Eduardo Russian (MBA 2018), Shirley Cardona (MBA 2012), and Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) for their service to the club. Board member Eric Calderon (MBA 2013) gave an update on Latino... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

http://hbr.org/search/913041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-034 Distribution at American Airlines (C) Presents 2011-2012 updates to American's distribution strategy including new challenges and disputes. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

substitutable and the physician groups associated with each moved into closer competition with each other. Where turf wars do seem to have more of an impact is in how aggressively a hospital supports its initial investment in a given therapeutic area in terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

could include providing updated road maps or allowing a patron to download MP3s before she hops on her next flight. He did not release revenue numbers. Also optimistic about Wi-Fi's future was Sky Dayton, founder of Internet service... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

decision. The (B) case explores the specific identified synergies in-depth and provides an opportunity to judge their viability. The (C) and (D) cases conclude the story and update the case with issues facing the global confectionery... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1999
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and technology; and governance, corporate finance, and organizational performance. The remaining chapters in the book give in-depth histories of and updates on some of the other efforts that bore considerable fruit under McArthur:... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professors Jim Heskett and W. Earl Sasser and coauthor Joe Wheeler. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Published: October 6, 2008 Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

economist for Merrill Lynch South Africa, noted that "there is only so much a macroeconomic policy can do. The central task is to create a stable environment." The final keynote speaker was Dean Kim B. Clark, who presented an update on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

of Campbell, Viceira, and White (2003), updating their evidence, and reviews the evidence of Campbell, Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Viceira (2010) in detail. Consistent with the intuition that an integrated capital market is one in which... View Details

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307070 Nike Inc.: Heading Toward 2010 Harvard Business School Case 207-105 This is a short case (2 pages), which can be distributed and discussed in class as an update through... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

Facebook status updates of a hypothetical friend, Joe Smith. Half the participants saw the status, “Just booked a vacation! Headed to a lake.” The other half saw the less descriptive post, “Just booked a vacation!” Those who knew where... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Your Father's GM" was updated every few years, evolving from a case about growing pains to a case about the problems inherent in sustaining that growth. "If building a new enterprise is hard, then sustaining it is hard... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

frequently a win-lose exchange between nations which are unequal either in their power or in their willingness to enforce basic standards of human rights, worker safety, and environmental impact. Another golden opportunity for people without a conscience. Japan and... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundwork

building will contain meeting rooms, office and dining facilities, and classrooms. 2 Tata Hall Opened in 2013 Tata Hall anchors the northeast corner of a new Executive Education quad. 3 Esteves Hall ETA 2015 Renovated and renamed, Baker Hall will reopen as Esteves Hall... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

forgotten sectionmate. Following are brief updates on some of the more far-flung members of the Class of 1977. Whether their life journeys have led them to distant parts of the globe, down untraditional career paths, or on quests for... View Details

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