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- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
and those with lack of access to education and transportation face after prison.” The manufacturer Owens Corning finally gave him a chance. At the same time, he set out to solve the problem his experience revealed. Blakeman spent weekends building an View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
find that, until they are out there selling, they really don't know the crucial differences between early adopters and others along the relevant spectrum of opportunities. Our ideal customer profile [ICP] is basically a low-cost, practical, and fast process for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
provisioning are covered. Weather and heavy weather sailing are presented based on first-hand experience. Cruising risks, including pirates, are laid bare. All of this is supported with examples of the author’s experience. A Member Is Worth a Thousand Visitors: A... View Details
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Affinity Groups | Employment
Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus , which is open to students as well. Benefits of membership include access to the online membership database and participation in Harvard’s large LGBT community. There are also several networking and... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
the ask is not avoided and factors that may be viewed self-servingly are neither introduced nor highlighted. In doing so, results from a field study and complementary online study document evidence that less prosocial behavior results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
situation. Students with particularly positive experiences often remark that they felt integrated into the work of the team and that people in the organization cared about what they were working on.” To replicate this integration, consider how you can create an View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
beginning to embrace the nascent Internet. Kilar’s class was the first to be given an email address—in this case, an AOL address because HBS addresses did not yet exist—and access to the Web. In a second-year class taught by Jeffrey Rayport, Kilar View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
addition, we explore possible second-order effects, examining whether “liking” brands might cause consumers’ friends to view that brand more favorably. When consumers see that a friend has “liked” a brand, they are less likely to buy the brand relative to a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
organizations in private industry could learn from the example of Data.gov to the extent of unlocking data from individual silos in their firm even though data remain protected within firewalls. HBS assistant professor Karim R. Lakhani,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
should hire for curiosity, model inquisitiveness, emphasize learning goals, let workers explore and broaden their interests, and have “Why?” “What if ?” and How might we ?” days. Doing so will help their organizations adapt to uncertain... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
And today Aldi is CEO of Gopay, which is Gojek’s all-encompassing fintech solution, offers everything from a Paypal-like digital wallet, a Square-like digital online payment platform, and even consumer lending services. At Gopay, Aldi has... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
account, we present six studies, conducted in the field and in the lab. A pre-registered field experiment indicated that diners were 21.1% more likely to buy a bowl of chicken noodle soup when a sign revealing its ingredients also included the cafeteria’s costs to make... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
and/or number of display-only items have no significant impact on these decisions. These findings reveal a novel choice behavior in commonly encountered settings such as online marketplaces. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
for us setting up our student union. FEBRUARY–MARCH 1968: Founding AASU READ MORE View the special online Baker Library | Bloomberg Center exhibit, Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the African-American Student Union Read about... View Details
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
inroads in important ways in collaborative learning and R&D. When privatization and business applications start to enter the picture, which he predicted would happen by the year 2005, managers will have much to gain—or lose. Research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45468 August 2013 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Ideological Segregation Among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians By: Greenstein, Shane, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Do online communities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne