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March 2023
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Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (B)

In 2018, Ana Owczarzak was appointed to lead Google Ads' new innovation and accelerator team - the Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL). The purpose of SAIL was to offer testing and incubation services for individuals within Google Ads who were developing new... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; United States

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Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. We find that the... View Details

Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Employment; Income; Mathematical Methods; Welfare

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03 Oct 2013
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Yanbo Wang, Boston University

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

expected to fully complete all coursework in a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course module deadlines and fully answering questions posed therein, including satisfactory performance on the quizzes at the... View Details

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Harshini Chengareddty

female partner at a consulting firm trying to navigate her very successful career alongside equally demanding personal commitments. The conversation we had in class, and for many days after, was one of my favorites because while I View Details

08 Sep 2022
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Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

for Boomers to step aside, and for the new generation to step up,” says George, now an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. “They are the leaders we need.” Many Baby Boomers in the US are rejecting the idea of a quiet Florida retirement and View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

28 Nov 2023
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Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

call it “looting,” drawing on a well-known paper on US firms in the savings and loan crisis, among other episodes. That paper shows that firms loot their own assets in expectations of bailout, but I show that View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the same items, people believe that a preference for one precludes enjoyment of the dissimilar other. Five studies show that people sensibly... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

He adds that if a firm doesn’t have a seasonal nature to it and opts to cut pay, it “can expect [its] best workers to walk out the door.” For employees, a decision to leave a company most likely depends on whether they can easily get... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju

As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to aid decision makers in high-stakes settings such as healthcare and criminal justice, it is important to ensure that the decision makers correctly understand and consequent trust the functionality of these... View Details

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The new property: computational property, intellectual property, and cyberspace

The objective of this project is to design ownership regimes for property located in cyberspace, such as websites, links for e-travel, applets that run on distant processors, and other related computational species. The driving assumption of the project is that the... View Details

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The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Regions

By: Michael E. Porter

Michael E. Porter continues to extend his study first reported in The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Porter has published books and studies of other countries, states, and cities, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,... View Details

04 Oct 2019
HBS Seminar

Annabelle Fowler (Harvard University), Harvard University

The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending... View Details

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

reasonable profits and reduced Hepatitis C, and rates of which are expected to fall by 86 percent between 2020 and 2030, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health. This real-world example demonstrates how a business model can help Big... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

23 Sep 2015
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Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

spirited three-year-old son, and is expecting a second child; Brooks just returned to HBS from maternity leave in August. In other words, these are the last people in the world who would try to thwart female ambition with scientific... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2018
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If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

average annual paycheck of $5.8 million while the average employee earned $42,000, and determined the ratio of CEO compensation to mean employee compensation. He also figured out what he calls the “economic pay ratio” you might expect to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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interested in learning more about business? Prior business experience is not a “must,” but what experience do you have in business? What are your goals as they relate to the Crossover program? We expect everyone who enrolls in the program... View Details

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