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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
brands (like Tim Tams), so I was looking for an opportunity to work on strategic brand initiatives with a firm that has similarly beloved products. Also, my wife and I enjoy outdoor activities and have heard that Minneapolis is amazing in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
organizations in private industry could learn from the example of Data.gov to the extent of unlocking data from individual silos in their firm even though data remain protected within firewalls. HBS assistant professor Karim R. Lakhani,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
individual’s preferences. Regardless of their decision, the patent examiners were 4.4 percent more productive than their work-from-home peers. The future may be entirely remote for some companies, says Choudhury, who is currently writing a case on GitLab, a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
The Reverend Robert Brooks's small, crowded office at Christ Episcopal Church in Kent, Ohio, is a long way from the executive suite that he occupied for nineteen years at the Philadelphia investment firm of Cooke & Bieler. He has moved a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
work remotely during the pandemic, but for a huge swath of the population, working from home was simply not an option. This was especially true for many gig workers and small business owners – it’s tough to work from home when your... View Details
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Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report
according to recruiting firm Heidrick & Struggles’ “Board Monitor US 2023.” However, that progress has slowed in recent years and has accrued mostly to the benefit of white women. The proportion of Black directors has nearly doubled since... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
testing a number of hypotheses around how best to build opportunities there,” says Breyer. Looking ahead, HBS professor Josh Lerner predicts that a small number of global firms soon will dominate the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Pease (MBA 1967) (Deucalion) Following on Pease’s 2009 compendium, The Golden Age of Jewish Achievement, this book explores the “why” behind the “what” of Jewish achievement. Pease evaluates the major theories offered to explain the phenomenon of so many achievements... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
firms in the past, and also by reviewing more theoretical approaches developed by academia. The framework works in two parts. In part one, the manager estimates a model of demand. In part two, the estimates are plugged into an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
School Case 808-027 Saffronart, a five-year-old online art auction company, leads the market for modern Indian art and now faces competitors in the market it created. Established in 2000 by the wife-and-husband team of Minal and Dinesh Vazirani, Saffronart.com is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Some of the best entrepreneurial ventures begin with a small revelation. For Luke O'Neill (MBA '95), the founder of a unique alternative high school in Massachusetts, that revelation came from an eight-year-old boy named Robert. As an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “Mr. Land's intense interest in scientific research and his conviction that it could be profitably conducted by a small... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
makes them important partners for retail companies seeking to attract and retain talent. What Students Want HBS student interest in retail has remained steady over the past five years with approximately 3% of the class joining the industry full time after graduation.... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market's biggest problem. Today, his twenty-two-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
depended on a more dynamic development of the entire regional economy. On his own initiative, in 1997, Groot launched a private sector-driven effort to enhance the economic development in central Germany, the region located around Halle-Leipzig. Bundling together 50... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
to mention the Suez Canal). Since I found similar results in an effort by Brazilian corporations to attract small shareholders, I thought that Brazil was also a financial democracy. Yet, in Brazil there was a clear cycle: It started in... View Details
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
interactivity, including Thought tracing. Firms infer states of mind from the content of a Web search and serve up relevant advertising; a market born of search terms develops. Ubiquitous connectivity. As people become increasingly... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any capital market benefits observed for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne