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- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial... View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
interactive and intuitive. The final result was COBE (Code of Business Ethics), an ethics chatbot on which employees could type their questions and get answers tooled to their specific concerns. Rather than providing simple “yes” or “no”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
Northern California, took place at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame. In his introduction, Sean W. Jacobsohn (MBA '98) noted, "Siebel Systems was founded in 1993 with no venture capital and needed only $1.8 million in revenues to attain... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
classroom experience has everything to do with the level of interactivity between faculty and students, and these virtual classrooms provide a better online experience.” Students log in from their respective computers all over the world... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
latter to price lower and thereby increase total consumer traffic. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-010.pdf Exclusivity and Control Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Abstract We analyze platform competition for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
I was working nights and weekends, and that eventually led to burnout. I wasn’t sleeping. I wasn’t eating, and my self-esteem was in the gutter. My doctors told me that something had to change. That’s when I decided to take my well-being into my own hands. “While we... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
fact, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist was known to be in touch with Indian Maoist groups. In addition, because my primary field of research is political economy, I'm studying interactions between politicians and bureaucrats in India.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015). She was one of 39 students... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
2009, the company embarked on a journey to build "One-Firm" with a unifying culture and governance system across business groups. IDFC aimed to provide seamless access to products and expertise across business groups, increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Charitable Lead Trust - Alumni
Giving Charitable Lead Trust Giving Charitable Lead Trust A charitable lead trust (CLT) enables you to support HBS and transfer assets to children or other heirs at a reduced tax cost. Benefits Reduces the gift and estate tax costs of transferring assets to your heirs... View Details
- 2008
- Book
Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy
By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz
Marketing has a greater purpose, and marketers, a higher calling, than simply selling more widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. In "Greater Good", the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function—and does so democratically.... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
periodically blown up other emerging markets. Having already devalued the renminbi in 1994, and having retained capital controls throughout the period of economic reform, China suffered no currency crisis in 1997–1998. When the Chinese... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
policies, and identity politics. In San Jose, many women were elected to political positions. As state governments cut funding for schools, they turned to Silicon Valley firms for philanthropy, unintentionally handing control of public... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
emulate, support, and manage these important individuals for long-term corporate success. Managing Local Governments: Designing Management Control Systems that Deliver Value by Emanuele Padovani and David W.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jeff Norton
company, along with a fellow HBS graduate, to create a new kind of film experience for children: an interactive movie that allows kids to control the story. I worked obsessively on the project, sometimes to... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
theory, we show how and why these anomalies may occur when cross elasticities are estimated for pairs of brands that are substitutes. We empirically examine these issues in the context of the widely used Multiplicative Competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne