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- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
you invest in a movie that’s on the list than one that is observably similar but is off the list.” In addition to just tracking the performance of scripts, Luo and her co-authors were also curious whether the List gave a leg up to less... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative and penalizing companies that do not have a credible decarbonizing strategy. Consumers are increasingly demanding green products and are becoming sensitive to their carbon footprint, with many apps allowing them to keep track... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
tracked the number of MIPS or CPU cycles on the network from 1990 to 2002. Even using a log scale on the vertical axis would be barely enough to tilt a vertical straight line enough to create something resembling the curves of the other... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
unsettling images of a fatty stomach, a needle in a midriff, and rotting teeth. The researchers gauged the effectiveness of each type of label over two weeks by tracking the amounts and types of beverages purchased, and comparing those... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
what to do about it? Jeffrey Garten has put forth some suggestions as he departs his job. Among them are such things as "some real-world experience" as a requirement for faculty promotion, a "two-track faculty" with the second View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
in less than 30 seconds. "In one case, $35 million was raised in less than 30 seconds" The most highly developed of the digital currencies is Bitcoin, the product of an ingenious and secretive tech programmer who developed a complex algorithm for “mining” the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
it is the nation's largest catering business, which is not very often known. And also the nation's largest fast-casual delivery player. So it's a very strong brand. Now the background was that Panera has had a track record of success over... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
manufacturers ready to build the electric trucks to incorporate that tech, as well as a scalable market strategy. That strategy depends on TuSimple’s Autonomous Freight Network, the world’s first, which Lu likens to a railroad network of View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2019 Best Paper Award in Investments at the Center for Financial Planning Academic Research Conference for “Lazy Prices” with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Zoe B. Cullen : Winner of the 2019 Exemplary Applied Modeling View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
on education, youth development, and economic self-sufficiency. SGP's track record speaks for itself, having helped to launch or scale many of Massachusetts's most effective social ventures, several of which have gone national. In the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
established. Auburn, Michigan, Ohio State, and other schools from the Power Five conferences were deemed more established. Less established schools hailed from less prestigious conferences with a shorter track record in intercollegiate... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
the lower end of the seven peer schools tracked by HBS and amounted to 14 percent of the School's total revenues. Harvard Business Publishing Four of HBP's five market-facing groups—Harvard Business Review, Higher Education, Advertising,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
divisive. He even coined a term for the conversion: "Englishnization." "This issue is explosive," says Assistant Professor Tsedal Neeley, who tracks Rakuten's journey in her case Language and Global... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
routines calls for relaunches to help leaders and team members understand how each member has been affected, figure out how to address concerns, and ultimately get everyone back on the same track to achieve team goals. Team leaders should... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
level. Their work has been both influenced by and reported recently by several academics. Harvard Business School professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman track experimentation in decision-making back to the Book of Daniel, BC 167-164.... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
can be tracked through clicks, page views, and time on the site, as well as through a host of other metrics. But, says Avery, "there is often still not a direct link to the type of customer behavior we want to measure, such as ticket... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
manager who misses a family dinner and blames the traffic, though he simply lost track of time. Likewise, an auditor's biases may lead her to unknowingly adapt over time to small imperfections in a client's financial practices.... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
long tail! Carl Størmer: There's an interesting question, too, about whether the seeds for your jump to the next S-curve are there in your past work, and how you might find and build on that. If you study Milestones, an album Miles made before Kind of Blue, you notice... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
or negotiating a salary that is multiples of anything your family has ever made, or keeping track of who you told what about your financial aid, or admitting you’ve never worn a tux or tailored suit. It’s humiliating having no clue what... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
percent of books generate enough income for an author to live on. The pay structure matters Zhu and Wu tracked the popularity of e-novels based on reader clicks and purchases, and measured a writer’s productivity based on how frequently... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds