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Dominic Mensah

years in the US, offering valuable strategies for transitioning. Ultimately, this moment after class with Shahaan, coupled with seeing myself in the case protagonist, reignited a passion I had been hesitant to fully embrace. It was a transformative View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Perfection’s Price

emphasize a shopping experience that includes spacious aisles, comfortable seating throughout the store, sophisticated climate control because their customers “tend to get warmer faster,” larger dressing... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2023
News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

19 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

harness big picture thinking, creativity, and problem solving to improve the lives of others. This experience was so transformational that I started my own non-profit, the Medical Device Hatchery, to help other aspiring high school... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

The Fab Four

itch. This year, for the first time, the program expands to four individuals whose lives and experiences show what different roads the entrepreneurial journey can take. “Students are hungry for the kind of perspective they can get from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

20 Dec 2017
Blog Post

Meet Annie & Piper: A Student and Dog's Life at HBS

dog, Piper. We caught up with Annie to learn more about her and Piper’s experience at HBS. Were you nervous about coming to HBS with a dog?I was a little nervous that I'd feel like I was missing out on View Details

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

preconception of how they expect it to go down. How such preconceptions, or what researchers call "mental models," actually control the outcome of a negotiation is one of the important new areas of investigation. Mental models,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

that have ownership and control rights in the SOE. Building on Vernon, we argue that the SOE can break free from this power imbalance and establish resource independence from other state actors by becoming a multinational firm and/or by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

live shots on big screens across campus. Knowing that the selfie would be temporary made people 1.2 times more likely to take and share a selfie than those in a control group, the researchers found. The promise of temporariness also... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

experience the employer has on the market” In this case, the employer is the shopper, and the freelancer has the information advantage—especially when working with a first-time employer. The result: The inexperienced employer tends to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

preferences. The second algorithm is more efficient, but applies only in the case when random utilities are logit. We show that the log-likelihood of the model has a particularly simple expression and we compute its derivatives. As an... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

are addressed in the May 2019 paper Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism, published in the journal Organization & Environment. Toffel’s case study CEO Activism is taught to HBS MBA students. The Tim Cook experiments To gauge the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

and strict quarantine measures, drawing on the city-state’s previous experience with pandemics, including SARS, H1N1, MERS, and Zika. Then in March 2020, Singapore deployed the world’s first Bluetooth-based contact-tracing system,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

experience planted a seed for Pomeranz's future research: how to promote financial savings among "microentrepreneurs" such as food cart owners, street vendors, and cosmetics saleswomen, whose income is low and often fluctuates.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Mar 2017
News

HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age

When considering how to enter the digital learning arena, HBS did what any startup would do. It began in 2012 by identifying a challenge: How to merge the unique elements of the HBS learning experience with the latest technology to create... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg Pincus whose four decades of... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

09 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

experiments in which participants waited in virtual queues, revealed that waiting in last place diminishes wait satisfaction while increasing the probabilities of switching and abandoning queues. After View Details