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- 20 Apr 2021
- News
Get Ready for the Relationship Renaissance
Photo courtesy of Hinge Photo courtesy of Hinge With vaccines more readily available and the world inching toward recovery, Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), founder and CEO of the dating app Hinge, predicts singles... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness
such as lower wages or a cheaper dollar, do not boost U.S. competitiveness by our definition. Whether a nation is competitive hinges on its long-run productivity—that is, the value of goods and services produced per unit of human,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 edited by Arthur Daemmrich and Joanna Radin (Chemical Heritage Foundation) In a period of rapid scientific and market changes, success in regulating food products, prescription drugs, medica ldevices, and dietary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
experience for both parties,” says Kang. Hinge shares much of its DNA with Tinder—geolocation and gamification—with one important distinction: Hinge connects users only with friends of friends or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
wrote in Newsweek (June 14, 2004), will hinge more than anything else on one question: “How much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected — and on terms that Americans had... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) is president and CEO of Moderna Therapeutics, which is producing a new drug application that could revolutionize the biotech world. It hinges on messenger RNA, or mRNA, the molecules responsible for transporting... View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
volunteer reading tutors. The criteria for involvement are minimal, often hinging only on geographic proximity to a company site. The 600 school principals I surveyed said they are grateful for any help from the business sector. But what... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
leaders on the future of regulating food, drugs, medical devices, and dietary supplements. In a period of rapid scientific and market changes the success of regulation in these areas increasingly hinges on communication and collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
competition from other players in their respective industries. Many factors contributed to their success but much hinged on their ability, as Koehn writes, to create “products and connections to buyers that offered not only quality,... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
The Softer Side of Business at HBS
decision began to hinge not on which school could teach me finance better or give me a better network (those were table stakes), but rather on which school could help me become a more thoughtful leader – one who would be more in-tune with... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Mid-summer Update
hinge on the feedback from customers. We needed high quality results and enough of them to make the data statistically significant. Back at the hotel that night, I was finally able to take a first look at the results. Some strong trends... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Harvard President Derek Bok a letter outlining an ambitious vision for the School—one that hinged on rebuilding the faculty, high-quality research, and a welcoming academic community. Impressed, Bok asked McArthur to lead the School. In... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
The success of each SIG hinges on high levels of club membership. After brainstorming ways to increase their overall numbers, Mott and Baskin took a business-like approach: They hired Marla G. Harger (MBA '00) to generate membership and... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
would work to his or her advantage on a practical level. “I learned as much as they did from that experience,” she notes. Schock's successful interactions as SA copresident often hinged on understanding the reasoning behind the planning... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 05 May 2016
- Blog Post
Being a Student Mom at HBS
the topic of motherhood into my studies. My classmate Carina Rutgers and I had the opportunity to turn this into an independent project on motherhood at HBS that was supervised by Professor Frances X. Frei. The project hinged on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
valuable insights from a company’s transactional data. Unlike the more traditional field cases, which have multiple exhibits drawn from interviews and hinge on a leader’s dilemma, Madrigal is a short-format case. It centers on the data,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
of work experience before HBS. The case method hinges on the fact that our classrooms are full of students with very diverse backgrounds. We have army officers, retailers, engineers, teachers and consultants with years of experience under... View Details
- 15 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Coming Out Calculus: A Reflection in Honor of National Coming Out Day
have to do this, how familiar the anxiety is, how it feels like so much of this new world I’m entering in hinges on the answer to a stupid icebreaker question. This existential crisis consumes the last bit of time I had to think, and now... View Details
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
Commission. Those cases, however, often hinge on the question of whether consumers would have bought an item anyway, had they known the supposed original prices were fake—a standard that is hard to prove. Some retailers have successfully... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
Whose Job Is It to Rebuild the US Middle Class? Optimism among respondents to this month’s column concerning future United States growth rates hinges on whether the middle class can be restored. That’s a big contingency. Those commenting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett