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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
visitors engaged and providing a proven and significant increase in conversion rates for online businesses such as: Trading, Gaming, Software, Forex, eCommerce, Affiliates, Banking, Printing, Communication, Finance, View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
certification. Second, adoption levels are low, and rates of decertification almost as high as certification. Third, awareness raising among consumers and partnerships with public actors are equally weak. Yet programs do align well with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
Year in Review Degree Programs Nearly 8,150 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and approximately 890 applicants in the Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 14 percent and 4 percent,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
unpacks Connecticut's winning strategy, which led to a sign-up rate of about 65 percent of uninsured in the state. Key to the effort, he says, was that the quasi-state agency Access Health CT (AHCT) put marketing at the forefront... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
argues that “the majority of this recent green patenting is not driven by highly rated ESG firms but instead by firms that are explicitly excluded from the ESG funds investment universe.” 'Blockbuster' innovation Cohen and coauthors Umit... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
message: Welcome. You should be proud to work here. Please fit in accordingly. But research suggests that employee orientation ought to be less about the company and more about the employee. In their paper "Breaking Them In or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
average cardholder owned 4.6 credit cards. On some of these cards, interest rates were as high as 30 percent. The use of consumer credit, while by no means new, reached unprecedented levels in the early twenty-first century .... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details
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Affinity Groups | Employment
of the staff community feel included and well positioned to thrive. Employee Engagement Research shows that participation in staff affinity groups often leads to higher rates of employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention. This is... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17
By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Outsourcing firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories increasingly rely on private View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
rating systems have emerged to reward good service and integrity. Plan Several Moves Ahead Bob Kraft owns the New England Patriots, one of the most successful franchises in professional sports. Notably, he didn't get the team by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to firms that are finding themselves outside the action as the clout of a handful of cities grows. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54944 forthcoming Marketing Science U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007
Working PapersPoverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal Authors:Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract We conduct an econometric analysis of the economic and social factors which contributed to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from LGBT rights to race relations to gender... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
occupational ladder at a rate twice that of white men.” 34 No photographs of African Americans appeared in Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel , and few images of African American employees are seen in U.S. Steel corporate literature in... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
Ernesto SchargrodskyNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15602, December 2009 Abstract We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
down leads and making personal visits with potential clients. They also spend considerable resources in traditional marketing, especially the large firms. Those setup costs must be recovered over time through fees. Wealthfront keeps those costs low by finding clients... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
standardized, and centralized repository, it mitigates information costs for buyers and sellers and, thus, facilitates transactions in the market for ideas. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53959 forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne