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31 Jan 2012
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messages. It finds that surprisingly, actual meetings and peer pressure do not seem to be crucial in making self-help peer groups an effective tool to encourage savings. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-060.pdf De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Theory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

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Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work

Workers: Untapped Talent we studied workers who are often excluded by traditional hiring processes. In this follow-up, we focus on a large sub-set of hidden workers: part-time workers, who indicated in our survey that if their circumstances were different, they would... View Details

26 Sep 2016
Blog Post

An Interview with Corporate Relations Director, Kurt Piemonte

industry or location. For the summer of 2016, more than 250 students qualified for funding. Tell us a fun fact. I am an amateur cellist with a passion for chamber music. I’ve played the cello for more than 40 years, and while I used to be an active free-lancer in... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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International Job Search Resources

Search for > Fund Managers > Advanced Search More Filters Location: check box for "Include Secondary Office Locations". Choose your preferred geography and other filters as needed. Exported results will include... View Details

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

Consider this real-world social negotiation. On a Friday night, a husband and wife are trying to decide where to eat and which movie to see. Al prefers restaurant A, and Marie prefers restaurant C. Marie... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

12 Oct 1999
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Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

sales. With the resulting improvements in demand forecasting and production planning and practices, inventory management for both the retailer and the manufacturer has become much more of a science. Since stores can track consumers' View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

The panelists found themselves in separate camps when the discussion turned to the reality of the truly global brand. Wagner, who headed Estée Lauder International for twelve years, noted that while her company's seventeen products take into account regional View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

27 Jul 2010
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profit implications for the entrant of inventing a new business model and for the incumbent of responding with business model reconfigurations could be substantial. In particular, the value of business model innovation may be so substantial that the incumbent may... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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windows; double click on a panel to resize screen. PFD Yellow Preferred Shares EQUITY Yellow Equity Shares CMDTY Yellow Commodity Markets INDEX Yellow Indexes CRNCY Yellow Currency Markets PgUp/PgDn Green Moves up and down through... View Details

29 Apr 2002
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Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

office. An executive search professional refuses the headaches associated with leading a practice area. Information technology consultants resist management assignments, for fear they'll become "administrators." Aggressive investment bankers View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

businesses cannot by themselves set the rules of the game. They face short-term economic pressures just like households, and their ability unilaterally to change their behavior is limited by dysfunctional governmental structures, and by the View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

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Work With Us - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

technology that enables value-based care. Since we are a small team we do not offer research delivery services such as data analysis, however we can work with you to guide your program to help achieve your goals. We prefer to collaborate... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Fellowship Fund grantee Financial need is not required for eligibility, but preference will be given to applicants who have had a demonstrated financial need while a student (as determined by HBS MBA Financial Aid), particularly if... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad

and implement our idea for a kids’ menu,” says Jiang. “But we discovered that the consumer preferences and concepts of a bakery were completely different in Brazil. It challenged us to understand the customers’ mind-sets,” explains... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Apr 1998
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Sparking Internet Commerce

businesses and organizations to provide users with a highly personalized selection of goods, services, and information." Employing passwords and aliases to ensure anonymity, individual users supply personal preference and choice... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Nov 2010
News

Commanding Officers

Current and former students, such as Donovan Campbell (MBA 2007) have served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Armed Forces Alumni Association is one of the most active student clubs on campus. (One current HBS student, who View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

30 Jan 2021
News

Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning

houses, a quilt that was hand-sewn by a former first lady, and the flag from the booth at Ford’s Theatre where President Lincoln was shot. He relies on the skills of long-term employees to deliver these specialized services, such as using a bar-code system to track a... View Details

Keywords: Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

03 Apr 2012
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approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this organizational heterogeneity: it may reflect inherent heterogeneity of the software workforce, in terms of which kinds of organizations individual workers prefer to work... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2018
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Digging Deep

irritation, Pieper could empathize: Having logged thousands of miles sailing in the Pacific Ocean, she knew that gear is important—that it should be portable, perform well under stress, and preferably look good. It was an aha moment that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

but I Want to Watch the Comedy Now: Intrapersonal Conflict and Myopia in Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the View Details