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- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
switching costs up front, though. If you don’t immediately have a new job to go to, spending more time at home with your family may be as awkward as it is delightful. But more time at home gives you a rare opportunity to reconnect with... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50668 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy
“The asymmetry of the reduced search costs makes it easy for people who want to support Black-owned businesses, while leaving the process largely unchanged for customers who don’t want to engage with the... View Details
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California - Global
technology, and its alignment of incentives: maintaining a streak on the app not only helped users master a language but also drove subscription growth and reduced costs for Duolingo. To date, Duolingo had focused almost exclusively on... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
and Frances X. Frei Publication:Chap. 8 in Operational Control in Asset Management: Processes and Costs. 1st ed., edited by Michael Pinedo, 154-168. Denmark: SimCorp StrategyLab, 2010 Abstract This chapter examines patterns in the cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2024
- HBS Case
Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore
billion in 2021, according to the case. At the time of the case study in December 2023, TikTok commanded $2.6 million for an ad to run for one day at the top of its TopView feature, which displays when people open the app. To compare, a 30-second television ad for the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
everyone—can learn from incorporating a search for wise tradeoffs into their decision making. This excerpt is from the book's introduction. Imagine that you are listening to a series of campaign announcements, each made by a different... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
competition effect whereby increasing rivalry shapes, and often decreases, incentives to expend effort and invest in innovation; and 2) a parallel search effect whereby adding greater numbers of "searchers" benefits innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
Students 18 Applications 896 Acceptance Rate 4% More Key Enrollment Statistics Full-Tuition Scholarships Offered In an effort to make the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of students, HBS began providing... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
entrepreneurs view problems as opportunities. In this talk, I focus on entrepreneurs trying to deliver better health and education outcomes at lower cost and in less time. I also discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate change.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
productive to first isolate the fundamental functions platforms perform, of which there are three: reducing search costs (this helps in matchmaking contexts: men and women, buyers and sellers, etc.); making... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
chain. However, companies that weren’t born as platform businesses rarely realize that they can—at least partially—turn their offerings into one, say the authors. And even if they do realize it, they often wander in the dark searching for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say
largest cost of pursuing an MBA. From a professional standpoint, I am already seeing the benefits. The program gave me the chance to reflect and better understand myself. I can stand my own in a room with our senior partners and clients.... View Details
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Hiring International Students
professional business function and employers do not need to interact with the US government to secure work authorization. There is no cost to employers and this is the first step to ensuring a smooth transition to full-time worker. It is... View Details
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Information Technology Information Technology To make the transformation to value-based health care... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
comfort, connection, and respect for its product and the communities Starbucks serves. CEO Howard Schultz has reignited Starbucks with innovative new offerings and by refocusing workers on the company's core values.Photo: iStockPhoto So Schultz composed a heartfelt,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
turnover, and that is incredibly costly because you have to search for new people and train them, plus you have a short-term decline in productivity,” Rouen says. “And then you have the people who stay but are dissatisfied and won’t work... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
business leaders of mainstream companies? Turner: Over the years, I’ve heard plenty. They fall in three categories: expense, denial, and blame. First, the expense myth comes up most often with people claiming that “diversity is expensive” and that “addressing diversity... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis