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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs

By: Gareth Olds
This paper explores how eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamps Program) affects firm formation. Using a variety of identification strategies, I show that expanded SNAP eligibility in the mid-2000s... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Welfare or Wellbeing
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  • July 2003
  • Case

De La Salle Academy

By: Thomas J. DeLong and David Ager
Brother Brian Carty, headmaster and founder of De La Salle Academy, a private school for academically talented, economically disadvantaged children in grades six to eight in New York City, is scheduled to meet with the school's board of directors to discuss how the... View Details
Keywords: Middle School Education; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Design; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education Industry
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    Ad Revenue and Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs

    Many scholars argue that when incentivized by ad revenue, content providers are more likely to tailor their content to attract "eyeballs," and as a result, popular content may be excessively supplied. We empirically test this prediction by taking advantage of the... View Details
    • Article

    Milestones in Marketing

    By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
    Marketing flourished in U.S. business schools in the prosperous years following World War II. Students preparing for assistant-product-manager positions at the likes of Procter & Gamble, Lever, and General Foods enrolled in courses in marketing management, management... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Business History; Marketing; Practice
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    • 15 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Hal Hershfield, University of California, Los Angeles

    • May 2021
    • Supplement

    Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise, Instructor Version

    By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
    On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Service Industry; New York (city, NY); Boston
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    • October 2013
    • Article

    Ad Revenue and Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs

    By: Monic Sun and Feng Zhu
    Many scholars argue that when incentivized by ad revenue, content providers are more likely to tailor their content to attract "eyeballs," and as a result, popular content may be excessively supplied. We empirically test this prediction by taking advantage of the... View Details
    Keywords: Ad-sponsored Business Models; Media Content; Blog; Revenue Sharing; User-generated Content; Platform-based Markets; Blogs; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Commercialization; Digital Marketing
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      Richard G. Hamermesh

      Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

      Keywords: health care
      • March 2016 (Revised February 2017)
      • Case

      Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details
      Keywords: On-demand Economy; Sharing Economy; Technology Startup; Technology; Growth Strategy; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Service Industry; United States; Boston; Cambridge; New York (city, NY); California
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      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      A New Model of Leadership (PDF File of Keynote Slides)

      By: Michael C. Jensen and Allan L. Scherr
      In this paper we provide a new definition of leadership that gives organizations and individuals access to new power, performance and accomplishment. In our model leadership consists of four critical elements The creation of a vision for the future that represents a... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; System
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        Jeffrey F. Rayport

        Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

          Connections

          Connections Education (CE), now part of Pearson’s Online and Blended Learning business, was created in 2001 to develop a new, more flexible, and more personalized type of learning for students for whom the traditional classroom was not a good fit. In early 2017, CE... View Details

          • 2019
          • Working Paper

          Biometric Monitoring, Service Delivery and Misreporting: Evidence from Healthcare in India

          By: Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade and Vincent Pons
          Developing countries increasingly use biometric identification technology in hopes of improving the reliability of administrative information and delivering social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric tracking devices in... View Details
          Keywords: Biometric Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science; Quality; Performance Improvement; India
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          • June 2015
          • Case

          Beacon Group of Hong Kong: Finding Light in the Shadow Education Industry

          By: Christopher Marquis, Qi Li and Guy Leung
          After more than 25 years of operation, Beacon Group had grown from having 3 small classrooms on the fourth floor of a commercial building, to a network of 21 centers across Hong Kong with over 60,000 students enrolled per year. The key long-term challenge for the... View Details
          Keywords: Online Education; Education; Tutoring; Incentives; Hong Kong; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Family Business; Education Industry; Hong Kong
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          • Web

          Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

          engaging with primary scientific literature. To enroll in the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program, candidates must apply to and be accepted by Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). To... View Details
          • 20 Feb 2018
          • First Look

          First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

          2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • 04 Aug 2009
          • First Look

          First Look: August 4

            Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership affects corporate tax avoidance. Private equity (PE) firms... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • Teaching Interest

          MBA Elective Curriculum: Investment Strategies

          By: Malcolm P. Baker

          This is a CORE course for students pursuing careers in finance. Thus, students interested in pursuing careers in mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial consulting, marketing and client service, sales and trading,... View Details

          • September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
          • Case

          IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

          By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
          IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details
          Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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            Clayton S. Rose

            Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His case writing is focused on the how leaders consider the... View Details

            Keywords: financial services