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09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

and found — was my voice as a leader and future manager. During my first semester of RC year, I recall my Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) professor telling us that Lead was one of the classes... View Details

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

members-only shopping site Gilt Groupe with classmate Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (MBA 2004). Now Girls Who Code students work as summer interns at the Gilt Groupe. The nonprofit has View Details

Keywords: April White

March 2022
Article

Estimating the Effectiveness of Permanent Price Reductions for Competing Products Using Multivariate Bayesian Structural Time Series Models

By: Fiammetta Menchetti and Iavor Bojinov

Researchers regularly use synthetic control methods for estimating causal effects when a sub-set of units receive a single persistent treatment, and the rest are unaffected by the change. In many applications, however, units not assigned to treatment are nevertheless... View Details

Keywords: Causal Inference; Partial Interference; Synthetic Controls; Bayesian Structural Time Series; Mathematical Methods

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21 Oct 2024
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What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

street exists in the middle of the desert,” Wu says. “There’s nothing remotely natural about it—it’s clearly a man-made invention.” Two principles for building View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
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BulkWhiz: Negotiating as a Startup Founder in the UAE

By: Katherine Coffman, Christine Exley and Alpana Thapar

This case follows Amira Rashad as she founds BulkWhiz, a Dubai-based buy-in-bulk grocery delivery platform. Following its launch in September 2017, BulkWhiz experiences rapid growth of 30 percent per month in the United Arab Emirates. Despite this initial success,... View Details

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16 Sep 2019
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Finding my Passion in the Startup Space

results of my work. Startup recruiting for MBAs can be challenging. Most people in your class have already secured jobs and you need to be patient while waiting for the startups which recruit last-minute.... View Details

15 May 2020
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Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

pragmatic middle ground between acting thoughtlessly and not acting at all. We each would like to know whether our actions will lead to the consequences that we seek. So would others. Hopefully, View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

16 Jun 2014
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The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

customize classes so that students received the lessons they needed without reviewing material they already knew? That is the idea behind School of One, an approach to learning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

31 May 2017
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Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

15 Sep 2020
Blog Post

One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech

going so far. Now that you have enrolled your first students, can you tell us how the program is going? The program is going remarkably well! We were excited to welcome our inaugural View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser

taught in the School's MBA and Executive Education Programs for almost 35 years without missing a class (Cal Ripken, take note). He is a prolific author (with twelve books, some three hundred case studies,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

No one was fooled by that. At a certain point he was at a loss. When he came to class as a guest lecturer, he described different models of leadership and the problems with each one. What worked 10 years in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

the real world works with racism and power the day they leave the School than the day they arrived.” Austin: This course was more important to... View Details

14 May 2008
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Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

explores the emergence of "air taxis," a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that have come on the market recently. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Oct 2016
Blog Post

The Women’s College Cohort at Peek Weekend

intrigued. She raved about the value of the classes and how completely immersive the experience was. I had to see for myself, so I applied. My... View Details

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

“I’ve had a lot of unexpected twists and turns.” While preparing to attend law school, Jones discovered business classes as an undergraduate at Emory University and was hooked. “I fell in love with the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2001
News

Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing

too limited for his schedule. His proposed solution? Run universities like factories, with classes available 24/7. "I would love to take charge of a university and change it," chuckles Yeo, "but no one has been brave enough to offer me... View Details

Keywords: Government

Kyle Schirmann

Kyle Schirmann is a doctoral student in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. His primary interests are science-based innovation in the Global South and the creative and cultural industries. Before joining HBS, Kyle worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg... View Details

Keywords: arts; biotechnology; electronics; entertainment; high technology; music; internet

04 May 2018
News

How to Win the Kentucky Derby

only a single colt that is going to win the Derby, and a single filly that's going to win the Oaks, out of about 22,000 that were born in 2015 when this crop and class of... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

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