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- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
create significant value and have modest operating costs, and network effects protect their position once established-users rarely leave a vibrant platform. But these businesses also raise significant start-up challenges. Every platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence” Topics tackled include how boards can most effectively oversee company strategy, CEO succession, and executive compensation. Also considered... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
hierarchy management: the psychology of privilege, or how benefitting from inequity affects human beliefs and behavior. She explores the effects of privilege using diverse research methods, including lab experiments, field experiments,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Related Links The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Celebrating the Women of HBS W50 Summit Event A Daring Experiment exhibit Women's Student Association 2013 Dynamic Women in Business Conference Women at HBS: Events, Projects, and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal (revised)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Moving on to the specific drivers at play in our sample cases, we identified two powerful utilitarian motivations: risk-management and competitive advantage creation. Risk Management A common reason for engaging in cross-sector collaboration has been to make use of it... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of gender bias”—that is, the opposite of window... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Gompers found that the gender of male venture capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
Illustration by Jeffrey Smith Follow the Passion & Purpose blog A new book about dynamic young Harvard Business School MBAs, Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders (Harvard Business Review Press),... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
funding—to terminate the experiment if it appears unpromising, and to cut their losses. This model—organizing a business so it is "scheduled to run out of capital periodically," as Sahlman has written—has naturally proven View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
does a good job of always reflecting the natural parts of human behavior in being an online community? Not ever creating interactions that are unnatural, which I do think that there are platforms that have created unnatural behaviors, and there are deleterious View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the response. The small price effect, compared to the large message effect, can be explained by two countervailing effects of a lower price: an inducement to settle early, but a lower threat of escalation. Furthermore, acknowledging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the fields we have worked in, this is the field where the notion that quality is free is the most powerful. One of the central themes of our book is that the way to drive down costs in healthcare is to drive up quality. That is the View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Initiative at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute. This episode of Skydeck Live is an excerpt from a conversation recorded at Golden’s recent Reunion, where she and I spoke about her new book, Stage [Not Age]: How to Understand and Serve People Over 60, the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
effected a dramatic shift in the norms of acceptable behavior in the workplace. Easterbrook was just one of a number of CEOs to get caught in the reversal and be shown the door over harassment or relationship issues. Boards and business... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
surplus—increased more than 10% year over year to $64 million, allowing HBS to end the year with a larger-than-expected balance of unrestricted reserves. Nearly three years after the height of the COVID pandemic, HBS has become an even more View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Gerardo "Gerry" Lopez fondly recalls the first movie he saw in the United States, in 1977: Star Wars. "Wow, the special effects and flying through space—it was great!" says Lopez (MBA 1984),... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's president expressed during the nationalization process. Interestingly, the effect of the vignette on households that gained water is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Noting that nearly 40 percent of the alumni present had graduated from HBS since 1980, Piccus predicted a lively exchange of ideas between dynamic business professionals and some of the School's leading academicians. "This is an historic... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes