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Program Policies - HBS Online

the required deadlines. This helps ensure your cohort proceeds through the course at a similar pace and can take full advantage of social learning opportunities. A module is composed of a series of elements, such as faculty videos,... View Details
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

Performance By: Li, Shelley Xin, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations empower frontline employees to experiment with different ways to meet diverse customer needs across different locations. We conducted a field... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
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Marcela Sapone

$2 million seed round from Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet, who was an early investor in Twitter and Tumblr, Alfred already boasts hundreds of customers and an idea that seems to be dialed into an expanding marketplace. Given her background,... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

it is no longer enough for firms to be better or cheaper to gain competitive advantage. These new rules make it essential for companies to reexamine four fundamental aspects of their business to thrive in the digital era—their strategy, value chain, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

benefits of transitioning a product or service into a platform Detect and anticipate how to manage conflicts in business models Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it might acquire new customers Sketch an idea for a platform that a... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Xu Abstract—We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where price promotions are very common, we document two... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Consider how your firm assesses climate change’s physical effects and its impact on suppliers, operations, and customers Apply the three-step approach to climate adaptation Identify challenges you could encounter proposing adaptation... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

a daily HBS calendar, enabling even the busiest students to keep up with campus events as they dash into class. In addition, the January cohort of the 1997 MBA class will conduct academic discussions on the Web and will also be the first... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
  • 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

York City School Chancellor Joel Klein and his attempt to create a Leadership Academy in order to better train principals to lead New York City public schools. Assesses what leadership skills and strategies are necessary for Klein to create a new View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

greater marriage age gaps, increased marital abuse, lower reported autonomy, and poorer health. My results are robust to a TS2SLS specification employing distance to a major health center as my instrument. As the first cohort of females... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

expansion strategies across HBP’s market groups. Together, Desmarais and McConville will continue to refine the firm’s strategy and build a deeper understanding of the customer experience, while exploring opportunities to advance digital... View Details
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General Manager’s Job (MDD) General Management, Entrepreneurial Management, Technology & Operations Management Amy Edmondson , Tiona Zuzul Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing Customers for Growth Marketing Eva Ascarza Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Managing... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

with a number of questions. What were the implications of moving from an open hiring market to the placement of cohorts of BTR graduates in high-priority schools? Was BTR's model sufficient to prepare new teachers to join struggling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace