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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
a large hotel chain reached out to express interest, Hoskins began to see the promise of B2B sales in the hospitality market. “They got the value right away,” says Hoskins. “It’s automatic: Your customers are healthier and getting better... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Oct 2018
- News
Bringing the Background into Focus
celebrating 50 years of women in the MBA program. “By the end of that hiatus, I was enrolled in a full time PhD program at Columbia.” A recent article in the New York Times highlights Murrell’s new exhibition at Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery, Posing Modernity: The... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung Park Abstract—We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of pharmaceutical sales representatives'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
return to campus. We are viewing reunions as an opportune moment for substantive teaching and learning—and not just for alumni who return to campus. And then we flip this model on its head with our new Insights sessions, which explore... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
mortgage-backed securities, which experienced large losses. "There's a fascinating discrepancy there," says Becker. "Something works for decades, for a century, really, with corporate ratings, and it failed utterly with... View Details
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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
In its place is a debilitating, often desperate condition, bequeathed to them in large measure by the apathy, greed, and ignorance of adults both near and far. That, one could say, is Africa. But ask JoAnna Van Gerpen (MBA ’81), UNICEF’s... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
teams in territory that models cannot predict. COVID-19 events deliver surprises daily to many organizations, from health care specialists to government officials. The decision-making process that responds to rapid change is once again as... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
and opportunities of their times for more than 200 years, from the economic boom and social challenges of industrialization to what has been described as the promise, peril, and unrealized potential of the 21st century. The language and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
this article, we argue that the beneficial effects of goal setting have been overstated and that systematic harm caused by goal setting has been largely ignored. We identify specific side effects associated with goal setting, including a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
cash-only offer from Cablevision, and a $15 billion cash-only offer from KKR and Providence. The fact that both Comcast and Cablevision are themselves family-controlled and with a large wedge between the family's ownership and control... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
two-sided marketplace, it must achieve a critical mass of both employers and employees in each market to be successful, an endeavor that takes time and resources. Focusing on a small number of states would allow the company to prove the value of its View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
S. Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David T. Neal, Foster Provost, and Rom Schrift Abstract—In today’s turbulent business environment, customer retention presents a significant challenge for many service companies. Academics have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about economic opportunities and beliefs about punishment are correlated. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
A core feature of youth service programs, namely their dual identity of helping others (i.e., service beneficiaries) and helping oneself (i.e., participants), might partly explain the mixed outcomes. We find that participants focus on one of the organization's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
an asymmetric market structure, with a few large P firms and many small OS firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-149.pdf Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long... View Details