Special Design Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2021
HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

reported infections. By mid-March, Carnival, the largest cruise line in the world, suspended operations across the globe. Yet it took weeks to get its 260,000 guests and 80,000 employees who were floating at sea back to their homes in more than 130 countries. The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

Zhang, Paul W. Farris, John W. Irvin, Tarun Kushwaha, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Barton A. Weitz Publication:Journal of Interactive Marketing (forthcoming) Abstract Multichannel retailing is the set of activities involved in selling merchandise or View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2024
Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS

learn first-hand how businesses could assist in the effort to rebuild. After seeing the power of that first, immersive, student-led service trip to New Orleans, faculty and staff at HBS realized that field-based opportunities might be... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

too often, when graduates of these programs enter the workforce, they find themselves unequipped to meet the challenges for innovation of 21st century health care. December 2014 Article No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public View Details

18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Egg What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Prove your mastery of leadership and management Earn by:... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

and be a model for future businesses. Raya Partners: Profitability and Purpose TXU (A): Powering the Largest Leveraged Buyout in History Key concepts: Corporate strategy This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the... View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Collaborating with a friend, Nouf, Fatima launched Jonnah, a nonprofit that would help women with sewing skills get the materials, space, and services necessary to run a garment business. By August 2018, they had successfully launched... View Details

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Professional Development - Alumni

forward, work with them to address specific obstacles, and direct them to other helpful resources. Schedule an Appointment Career coaches are available to meet with HBS alumni for 40-minute telephone appointments (up to four per calendar year). This View Details

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MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Competitiveness. The course was designed for students at Harvard as well as a platform for educational institutions and locally trained professors teach the course around the world. The MOC course explores the determinants of... View Details

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

appear to be unrelated to measures of innovation. The Design of Patent Pools: The Determinants of Licensing Rules Authors:Josh Lerner, Marcin Strojwas, and Jean Tirole Periodical:The RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

option leads to a fourteen-fold increase in the ex-post licensing rate. Two additional experimental interventions are designed to reduce search costs for (i) price and (ii) product information. Both intervention—immediate price comparison... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small welfare costs. All other choices,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

fabless semiconductor company focused on designing programmable analog signal processing chips. Aprendo Mason Myers Business Track Runner-Up Aprendo is a service that verifies job candidates’ prior education... View Details

13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change, and is a determinant as well of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About

Race, Gender & Equity Social Enterprise Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Foundry Impact-Weighted Accounts Institute for Strategy and... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

rounds. Be sure to have a special word with staff members who have joined your team in the last six months; some signed on because they especially wanted to work with you. In these personal meetings, it’s important to thank your team... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

January 2016 (Revised April 2017)
Case

The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies

By: W. Carl Kester

This case is designed to provide an elementary introduction to options and option pricing for beginning finance students. Analysis of the case requires students to compare the prices of put and call options with various exercise prices and maturity dates on two... View Details