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08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

according to Kerr. However, there might be ways for Kickstarter and similar platforms to offset or at least mitigate some of these tendencies and trends. Minority entrepreneurs are less likely to have projects promoted as “staff picks” on... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

world, the best place to change the minds of voters, especially disenchanted voters, is on their doorsteps, Pons says. Voters who dismiss the canned responses of a well-groomed candidate might listen to an activist from the same town or a View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

and social return can be aligned to drive positive change. The mentality that Professor Rebecca Henderson shared was something new and fresh and quite exciting for me. After graduation, I chose to join a firm that shares a similar belief.... View Details

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

combination of the two formats. Similar to their daily v-meetings with the hiring manager, the new employee should also schedule daily check-ins with direct reports before moving to two or three times per week once deemed appropriate.... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Grushka-Cockayne, that executives should adopt a similar approach when it comes to using probability forecasts of business-critical issues; for example, the likelihood that product demand will increase by a given percentage next quarter.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

just across time but also across locations,” Cavallo says, adding that these are important decisions for corporate executives wrestling with dynamic pricing. “Studying fairness concerns seems crucial to know how firms might be able to use automated pricing algorithms... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

November 2021
Article

Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products

By: Itay P. Fainmesser, Dominique Olié Lauga and Elie Ofek

We study how user-generated content (UGC) about new products impacts a firm's advertising and pricing decisions and the effect on profits and market dynamics. We construct a two-period model where consumers value quality and are heterogeneous in their taste for the new... View Details

Keywords: Online Reviews; Product Ratings; Social Networks; Word Of Mouth; Pricing; User-generated Content; Advertising; Product Marketing; Price; Consumer Behavior; Product Positioning; Social Media

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April 4, 2009
Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details

Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations

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03 Jul 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS Bridges?

a powerful and fitting conclusion to our time at HBS. Here I was, nearly two years later, back in Burden Hall where it all began. The excitement and buzz in the room was just as palpable as it was then. Similar to when we started at... View Details

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Ethan Li

time at HBS—in class and out—is valuable. I love the case study method; it helps me relate my prior experience to future goals. For example, we just had a case about the international expansion of a Japanese business—could a similar... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Manufacturing/Energy

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

practice. Think, for example, of the obstacles that lawyers and public relations advisers can put in the way of leaders wishing to practice such principles. Sucher and Gupta go on to say that, “How a leader earns trust is similar to how... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Compensation by Industry/Position/Location

for similar jobs across the board, it is not absolute. To find this premium dataset, select the Account icon in the right corner of the front page after registering and then select Premium Salary Database. Locate Salary Surveys by... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

found that 37 percent of Black respondents picked an all-white group if they had to compete for a job, compared to 20 percent if they didn’t. The team confirmed its initial findings through a laboratory experiment that applied a similar... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Cotting House | About

either side of the portico. One bears a sculptured representation of the Cotting family coat of arms: the other, a similar acknowledgment of the Winslow family, Mrs. Cotting’s ancestors. Expressing gratitude for Cotting’s gift, Dean... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

team members received training in various technical crafts—one became a licensed electrician, another a machinist, another learned some carpentry skills. Q: Was this unique? A: Absolutely not. We saw the similar approach repeated... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of Opus Dei. After several years working abroad, Dolan settled in Montreal in 1998 and recently became president of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

schedule and adjust it as necessary, but you’ll need to complete modules within a pre-set timeframe as there are critical elements that require the cohort to progress at a similar rate. Some courses feature required weekly deadlines while... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

performance is rewarded with good money. This work led to many insights, but was fundamentally descriptive in nature. Meanwhile, largely in parallel, decision and game theorists typically analyzed what ultra-rational people would (or should) optimally do when... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

the bottom. What were they doing differently? A: The Vision and Fusion teams presented a fascinating contrast, partly because they were in the same industry (chemicals) and were working on similar projects. The leader of the vision team,... View Details