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19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details

09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills required. As it sets out to raise its Series B, the founders make some critical changes to their business model, moving to a subscription model and adding additional products and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

philanthropy in the creation of high-performing schools, which they have been able to replicate with high degrees of fidelity." Cutting Losses Unfettered by oversight from a local school board, most charters are authorized by state boards of education, universities,... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Educational Services; Educational Services

24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Yoshimi Anzai, Marta E. Heilbrun, Derek Haas, Luca Boi, Kirk Moshre, Satoshi Minoshima, and Vivian S. Lee Abstract—The lack of understanding the true costs (not charges) of delivering health care services poses tremendous challenges in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists

By: Benjamin Edelman

The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest... View Details

Keywords: Platforms; Launch; Mobilization Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Network Effects; Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry

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01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way

a day to purchase goods and services (such as magazine subscriptions) advertised on Time Warner Inc.'s World Wide Web site, for example. The software leads customers through a series of screens and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

Demonstrated commitment to and impact in communities of color in the US, including but not limited to: Work that addresses disparities in communities of color Work to enact change in programs and policies that impact communities of color Grassroots, formal, and... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

entertainment executives do is spend a large chunk of all their production and advertising budgets on a small portion of their total output. It can lead to big failures, of course, but it's the best strategy in the long run. When you look... View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

assist in attracting top talent to Africa and expand the School’s global impact. H – HBS Clubs. There are over 50 HBS Student Clubs on campus, many of which are focused on career development. Connecting with a student club is a great way to View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

market reform with Sam Hanson and Adi Sunderam.] Many are frustrated with the slow pace of regulatory reform, including President Obama, who recently urged regulators to move things along. Indeed, the pace has been slow. Agencies are... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

cannot be successful unless they show vulnerability, are consistent, take time to be balanced, have a vision, and embrace their role as decision-makers. In the 2010 case “Toby Johnson: Leading After School,” Johnson, with military service... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

Citizen Year — SEF 2009 honoree Global Citizen Year is disrupting the traditional path to college and creating a new generation of global leaders through a "bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

30 Sep 2024
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The Making of a Streaming Sensation

because we were past what they've called Peak TV. We've had this golden age of scripted drama, and a lot of the services, the streaming services in particular, have been investing very, very heavily in user acquisition. And they've been... View Details

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market indications of goodwill... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Major Websites and Services By: Bates, Samantha, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, and Jonathan Zittrain Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which the internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

participants were given a situation involving a global context (strategizing about the future of a foreign wire service and advertising at an international sports competition). When asked to brainstorm in a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wanted his help. “It was one of those calls you don’t say no to,” says Bernstein, now serving as the bureau’s deputy assistant director of mortgage and home equity markets. “The CFPB is the largest federal View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Educational Services

09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

with the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater... View Details