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- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
subscription-based app allows people to connect over video while reading a children’s book together in real time, as if the services of FaceTime and Kindle were knitted together. The product took off, particularly among military families.... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
that creates unacceptable, even dire inequities for our Black community members,” writes Nohria. “This moment has made urgently clear that the School must redouble its commitment to combat racism—and anti-Black racism in particular—to... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
online than with the community outside their door. Companies often limit their community engagement to contributions to nonprofits or organizing volunteer opportunities. "Traditionally, the way these... View Details
- February 2018
- Article
Maintaining Beliefs in the Face of Negative News: The Moderating Role of Experience
By: Bradley R. Staats, Diwas S. KC and F. Gino
Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their beliefs, individuals may persevere in their prior beliefs. In... View Details
Keywords: Information; Announcements; Service Operations; Decision Making; Medical Specialties; Experience and Expertise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Staats, Bradley R., Diwas S. KC, and F. Gino. "Maintaining Beliefs in the Face of Negative News: The Moderating Role of Experience." Management Science 64, no. 2 (February 2018): 804–824.
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
and insightful, it needs to be rolled out through student organizations (clubs, the Greek system, etc.) and funded by nonprofits or grants. Another choice would be a freemium model, but that will be difficult to do without alienating the users, given the View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
etc.” Several responses questioned whether there was damage to the consumer, often at issue in antitrust. As Shoshanna Zuboff pointed out, in “free” high-tech services, the consumer benefits and resulting satisfaction are highly visible; the costs are not.” Nick C... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
director Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001)—around how to respond to the government's insistent request, relatively late in the planning process, for increased community services in areas such as education, water... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- Profile
Eryn Schultz
beyond? Long-term, I want be in a leadership role in a mission-driven company expanding services to those who are underserved. I came to HBS to explore careers in food, health care, and sustainability. While I’m focusing primarily on... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
11,000 community members. Owusu-Kesse had already spent a year at Canada’s side, thanks to an externship sponsored by his employer, Morgan Stanley. Now Canada wanted him back. “I had no idea how much money I would make. I had no idea what... View Details
- October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Editora Abril S.A.
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
Brazil's media conglomerate Editora Abril S.A. is Latin America's largest publishing and printing company; it publishes books, and comic books, videos, maps, travel guides, music, and textbooks. It also owns Brazil's largest database marketing company, its... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Communications; Market Design; Media; Service Delivery; Private Ownership; Expansion; Web Sites; Service Industry; Service Industry; Brazil
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Perry Fagan. "Editora Abril S.A." Harvard Business School Case 301-062, October 2000. (Revised May 2001.)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
TERWILLIGER: Workforce-housing shortages can hurt urban economies. Photo Courtesy Habitat for Humanity In June, Ron Terwilliger (MBA ’70) was named Housing Person of the Year by the nonpartisan National Housing Conference. With almost forty years in the housing... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 17 Oct 2014
- News
Committed to helping others
Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015) is concerned about access to healthy food and critical services for low-income families and plans to dedicate herself to helping those less fortunate. (Published October 2014) View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have the right skills to solve the... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jackie Adams
news. Now interested in “moving from success to significance,” Adams says, “I’m working in the nonprofit sector as a consultant to create wealth for minority communities as well as bring together companies and individuals to turn the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
initiatives in Europe and Japan, the Latin America center is part of the School's continuing strategy to deepen the international content of our curriculum and research while opening new opportunities for cooperation with business and academic View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
four-year colleges.” Raised in a low-income community in southern New Jersey, Huebner experienced firsthand the difference in her public school college preparation with that of her fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. “Had... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
began to change in 2009, when a community activist challenged Shumway to get more deeply involved in addressing the issue. He responded by applying the same evidence-based problem-solving approach Cicero uses with its corporate clients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- February 2011
- Teaching Note
Google and Earnings Guidance (TN)
By: Francois Brochet
Teaching Note for 111026. View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the world to work with health products and View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
After founding the online cosmetics service Eve.com, Varsha Rao (MBA 1995) is now heading global operations for Airbnb, helping customers of this mission-driven company gain richer travel experiences by connecting them more closely to the... View Details