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21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

the amount of prior experience working in the office wouldn’t skew results, the researchers “recruited” patent examiners who would be a completely blank slate: MBA students from HBS. For the experiment, they gave each of 221 students a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

research in his industry Arjun Bhandegaonkar Film studio executive Strengthen your analytical skills before pursuing an MBA or other graduate program. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend

textiles from retailers and municipalities across Europe. The company operates facilities in Germany, where garments are sorted with a combination of automation and manual tech, so that the useful life of each piece can be extended. About... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Feb 2014
Conference Presentation

Men as Cultural Ideals: How Culture Shapes Gender Stereotypes

By: Amy Cuddy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick and Michael I. Norton

Four studies test whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with core cultural values (specifically, individualism vs. collectivism) than do female stereotypes. In Studies 1 and 2, using different... View Details

Keywords: Stereotypes; Gender; United States; South Korea

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A Cost Comparison of Cataract Surgeries in Three Countries—United States, India, and Nepal

By: Jiayin Xue, John Hinkle, Mary-Grace Reeves, Luo Luo Zheng, Vengadesan Natarajan, Shyam Vyas, Radhika Upreti Oli, Matt Oliva, Robert S. Kaplan, Arnold Milstein, Geoff Tabin, Jeffrey L. Goldberg and Kevin Schulman

U.S.-based cataract surgeries are costly compared with those performed in high-quality Indian and Nepalese eye centers. The authors used time-driven activity-based costing to evaluate phacoemulsification surgery across four sites: a U.S.-based academic hospital... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; India; Nepal; United States

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Partner Organizations ACCION International ACLU Acumen African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) American Ballet Theatre Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Boston Ballet... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

20 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

he has found to be the “3 C’s” of independent bookselling’s resurgence: community, curation, and convening. Community: Independent booksellers were some of the first to champion the idea of localism; bookstore owners across the nation... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

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Batten Hall | About

milestones, educational TV’s first star, chef Julia Child, launched her career. The upper two levels of Batten Hall include 10 curved, modular learning classrooms known as “hives,” developed for small-group exercises and team-based learning, particularly to support the... View Details

09 Oct 2020
Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

of career I could be interested in. Currently, I am interested in exploring biotech careers in emerging markets, particularly in the MENA region, and plan to leverage my cohort and faculty to gain exposure to this niche area. 3. You don’t miss out on the View Details

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Global Activities 2020

Fellowship (GO: Africa), are working to encourage and scale businesses on the continent from their base in Ghana. Asia Pacific HBS Engagement Across the Region The Harvard Shanghai Center and HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Esema MBA 2014 Vice President, Renewable Energy Finance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch “Investing in clean energy solutions is necessary to address climate change. Deploying renewable energy globally will... View Details

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

you look at J.C. Penney over the long term, it seems to me that they have lost their identity. With more than 1,000 stores and great locations in malls across the country, it used to be the department store for middle-income families,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Funding Opportunities 2ms Career and Internship Support While many options exist to address environmental issues through traditional for-profit careers, some students make their marks on the world through other types of... View Details

07 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

think through how CEO Kevin Sharer should handle a positive entry decision given the divided opinions across the senior management team. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714424-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Our Values | About

campus last Wednesday, which included a troubling confrontation between one of our MBA students and a subset of the protestors, has left many of our students shaken. Reports have been filed with HUPD and the FBI, the facts are being... View Details

March 2015 (Revised January 2024)
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CV Ingenuity (A): How to Evaluate the Commercial Viability of New Health Care Technologies

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Andrew Otazo

Duke Rohlen (HBS MBA ’01) hoped to win over a prominent venture capital investor for Series B financing of his firm CVI that was creating a drug-eluting balloon (DES) to treat peripheral arterial disease. As a second-mover, Duke felt he was more likely to acquire... View Details

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28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

defeated the Indian Army in 1962 in a border conflict, and was not generally portrayed positively. China was quite mysterious. After I cotaught an experimental MBA seminar on China and India at HBS, and then cowrote an article on India... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

ecosystem. It provides students and alumni from across Harvard’s 13 schools with wide-ranging resources and support for creating their own ventures and solving problems through innovation. During Metric’s incubation at the i-lab, Murday... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

October 2023
Case

Driving Sustainability at AB InBev

By: Ethan Rouen and Antonio Manuel Oftelie

It was the height of the summer in 2022, and Michel Doukeris, the CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), and Peter Kraemer, the company’s Chief Supply Officer, gazed across the vast desert surrounding Zacatecas, Mexico. They were visiting their Grupo Modelo Brewery,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Transformation; Decisions; Environmental Sustainability; Leading Change; Growth Management; Business Model; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico

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