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- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergy and across disease states to solve specific problems such as diagnostics and reducing the allergic response.” The couple hopes their advances can offset the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
States, began shifting their job searches to larger firms after federal officials declared a national state of emergency on March 13 due to COVID-19. Experienced and higher-quality talent were among those... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Gunnar Trumbull Cambridge University Press This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France. Comparison of the two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not a consequence of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
help San José partner with innovative tech firms to address high-impact civic challenges. He knew the city had worked with Airbnb to make emergency housing available after the recent disaster, and he reasoned, why not establish a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Tony He
wanted a career with strong social impact. However, I was unsure about which field or kind of work would suit my interests. At HBS, I took courses about emerging markets, worked with a professor to conduct research in development... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- July 1996 (Revised January 1998)
- Case
Vietnam: Market Entry Decisions
The management of three U.S. multinationals have to decide whether to enter the Vietnam market and, if so, how. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Viet Nam; United States
Arnold, David J., and John A. Quelch. "Vietnam: Market Entry Decisions." Harvard Business School Case 597-020, July 1996. (Revised January 1998.)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
Not all financial reform proposals under consideration in Washington sprang from federal agencies and congressional committees. One emerged from HBS. Last spring, students in Professor Rakesh Khurana’s elective corporate governance class... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
biases that make predictable what otherwise so commonly emerge as surprises in business and society. They outline six danger signals that suggest when a predictable surprise may be imminent and provide a systematic framework that leaders... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
including the United States and Brazil, "are led by men who have projected strong masculinity attitudes and dismissed the need for precautionary practices, such as wearing masks," the article says. When Pons and his team surveyed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
profitable, while areas such as emergency medicine and burn care are undervalued. In a consumer-driven system, market forces would operate to correct these disparities and create greater incentives for physicians to customize therapies... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
these dynamics has been constrained by fragmentation within relevant management research. In this paper, we clarify and describe two narratives that have emerged within past and current research on growth and the internal organization.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
States economy maintained a steady pace in job growth of about 2 percent a year. The US labor force participation rate reflected that, growing robustly for the four decades from 1947 to 1997. Around 2001, both those indicators of the... View Details
- August 2019
- Case
Preserving Trust at Care.com (A)
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Julia Kelley
Care.com was an online platform designed to match caregivers with individuals seeking care for themselves, others, and pets, through job postings, caregiver profiles, and directories of local day care centers. In March 2019, the Wall Street Journal had just published a... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Governance; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Emerging Markets; Trust; Technology Industry; United States
Palepu, Krishna G., and Julia Kelley. "Preserving Trust at Care.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-011, August 2019.
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
social venture’s revenue strategy, the researchers analyzed a sample of 584 applications to a fellowship competition for nascent social ventures sponsored by Echoing Green, a global nonprofit organization that provides seed-stage funding, leadership development, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
more value to Utah businesses and attract other CEOs to relocate to the state. Twelve of the last 14 people I hired were former CEOs. We turned key state programs—like incentives—into a P&L, meaning that if they added jobs and tax revenue... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
and desire for it. Consistent with this conceptual account, we demonstrate that this brand flirting effect is mediated by excitement. Moreover, the brand flirting effect is most likely to emerge under conditions that facilitate arousal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
million times. I have learned a lot from the many, many conversations that have emerged around the talk. Some of these conversations have made me hopeful, but most have made me realize how far we must go to meet society’s urgent need for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised behavior by entrepreneurs? Splitting... View Details
- Portrait Project
Amy McGowan
My history is built on the American Dream. My maternal great-great-grandparents emigrated from Germany determined to build a thriving farm in the Midwest. Hard work enabled them to live the American Dream. My Dad emerged from a life of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
sometimes die. AI, AVs, and saving lives With less emotion behind the wheel, Musk and Tesla argue that automation could address real-world safety problems. As the case explains, motor vehicle crashes kill 40,000 people in the United View Details