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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari I found myself frequently searching Google for things I read about in the book, which extended the time it took to read it, but I always view this as a great sign. Among the highlights for me: We all share... View Details
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
prioritize family time) so we just made sure that we stick with that. What has been most challenging about being a mama and student during COVID? Having to take care of a 3-year-old son at home while attending classes and doing all exams... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
is that participants write up their own case studies—an opportunity usually reserved for faculty. Some of the 18 cases published or in development in the "The Great East Japan Earthquake" series include reports on Google Japan... View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
pursue opportunity and successful new product development in spite of investor impatience. The real challenges may lie elsewhere, for example "the market place," as Jasper Ojongtambia suggests, or competition from companies like View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
research shows that being raised by mothers and fathers who work both inside and outside the home gives children a signal that contributions at home and at work are equally valuable, for both men and women.”... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002) worked at Google for more than 11 years, and she would usually take the bus to get there. And every day, on her walk to the bus... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
significant. Lal: Another thing that has happened in the economy is that the need for convenience has gone up dramatically. Most category-killers were destination stores, but over time people didn't want to spend that much time traveling, so smaller formats closer to... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
an experiment almost a decade ago in which the company allowed a randomly selected subset of employees to work from home for nine months while the rest of the team stayed in the office. As it turned out, the employees who worked from... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
among many consumers than any political party, trade union, church, or mosque. Indeed, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz sought to make his coffee shops the "third place" in our lives, after home and work. Marketing is an... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
of trying to go for those home runs all the time and the next Google or the next Facebook, you know, you can certainly make great returns when you go for singles and doubles. And we've seen that by having a... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
as addition or division). Since some exercises will require learners to draw on data from multiple financial statements, learners should also be comfortable writing formulas that reference cells from different spreadsheet tabs. Can the spreadsheet exercises be... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
improved significantly in respect to speed, convenience, and cost. For example, I get Sunday delivery of Amazon through the post office as part of my Prime membership while Amazon, Instacart, and Google Express are currently experimenting... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
zone is located. In tandem with its value in practice, BATNA has become a wildly successful acronym (with over 17 million Google entries). Yet the initial characterization of this concept in Getting to Yes (Fisher, Ury, and Patton, 1991)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs to examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on political and community loyalties. We find that refugees who lose a home to barrel bombing, while more likely to feel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
you think about what happiness is? Neil Pasricha: You know, happiness is a really big, gigantic word. It is-- it's funny, if you go to Google and you type in "how to be" the first dropdown in the suggestions is "happy." People are typing... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718039 Harvard Business School Case 517-064 Note on the Impact of Millennials on the Food System In 2016, the millennial generation (those age 19 to 35 in 2016), the largest generation by population in the U.S., was entering its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
brand in your home base because then you understand the character of your brand, the virtues of your brand, and understand the core that drives your brand. And if you respect that core can drive any human being wherever they reside, then... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
U.S. Home Mortgages Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Chap. 3 in The Future of Housing Finance, 26-65. Brookings Institution Press, 2011 Abstract This chapter analyzes the various forms of federal programs to support View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne