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January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
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Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders—including Juno’s 2019 partner—were not... View Details

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Purchase

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on personal... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 2

strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2009
News

Back to School

2008, I decided to make the leap: I began the process of becoming a certified high-school math teacher. When D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee spoke to the HBS Club of Washington in October 2008, I introduced her, presented her... View Details

Keywords: Anthony Priest; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
News

Ears to the Ground

a decade and was only active in about 30 cities. Clark saw the problem: “From a police department point of view, it was a significant and risky IT project,” he says. ShotSpotter systems cost about $250,000 per square mile to install;... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs

01 Jun 2000
News

The Right Connections

an especially promising area for studying the effects of top executives' social capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech, it can take eight to ten years to developa product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

is arguably the strongest these days, appears not to be competitive in many global industries in which labor costs are still important. Germany, in particular, where workers and union members routinely occupy seats on boards of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing costs and the increasing modularity... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

archival research and in-depth interviews to examine the interaction between these institutional processes and formulate hypotheses that predict the ways in which bank acquisitions are constrained by banks' CRA ratings and the way states... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

started the turnaround of the company by first working on values—redefining them and communicating them widely. First, they do not merely focus on cost cutting and layoffs when a crisis arrives. While they may lay off employees (though... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

another under construction in Scotland, and branches being planned in Sweden and India. Its niche, according to the case, is testing when the cost of establishing automated testing is too expensive and complex. In March 2008 Sonne was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

application process is open, and qualified buyers are selected on the basis of lotteries and other methods. Our projects attract and retain people in the neighborhood, which contributes to stability, further investment, and a broader tax... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

mistrustful of exotic foods." He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional kitchen could address that. From these fundamental... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

northwestern us ClearCare serves the $60-billion private-pay homecare market in the US using a powerful SaaS technology that provides back-office efficiency and front-facing engagement of families and seniors. The sales process is... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

11 May 2021
Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

focus areas across the school: the actual socioeconomic diversity of the class itself the cost of attending HBS the cost of extracurricular and social experiences, which are less formally included in the... View Details

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

process of learning from experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55991 forthcoming Organization & Environment Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

Hoxworth Blood Center, where it was processed and stored. Parents paid an initial processing fee at the time of delivery and an annual storage fee in the month of the child’s birthday. At the time, most... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

to the idea that Sales and Marketing should each play a role in each phase of the process from e-mail marketing solutions right through to the close. That is, they argue that the two functions are best integrated by encouraging them to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

the selling process moves on. Several years and band-aids later, managers may realize that their channels serve neither their customers nor their channel partners well, but it is too late. Q: What are channel stewards and what role would... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

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