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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
trying to move the basic building-block skills out of the required curriculum and into prematriculation. Our goal is to free up time for students to delve more deeply into the economic logic required to solve problems and into the larger...
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- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and one-on-one meetings with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
value of “likes.” The evidence often cited to support that is to look at people who have liked Starbucks, for example, compared with people who have not. The assumption is that people who have liked Starbucks spend more money there. The critical flaw in that View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world...
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- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
simulation program that enables a classroom full of students to participate in situations that demand the sort of real-time decisions made in real-world markets. Simulations mirror historical (but disguised) examples, such as Apple Computer's stock market performance...
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- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
what should you be doing with this information?” Testing companies use a rash of custom-designed assessments, including personality tests, skills assessments, math and logic problems, and judgment tests, on hypothetical work situations....
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- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
idea with the San Francisco SPCA, she learned that somebody else had approached the organization with a similar thought. This was Elena Battles, a Stanford MBA graduate and the former COO of the Humane Society Silicon Valley. Exley and...
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- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
executives can learn lessons about promoting products from this research as well. "If you think of a candidate as a product—either you buy Obama or you buy Romney—then the logic would hold the same for a...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
productive in it. On the other hand, phenomena that didn’t live up to expectations, at least for many years, were improvements in productivity, to the extent they can be measured. There are many explanations. We had to learn how to use...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
as by the innovative technology that makes them possible. Companies must learn to build and foster these relationship networks because they engender speedy and seamless interaction, encourage creativity and collaboration, and release the...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
practitioners and academicians alike. As I started doing further studies with countries and states, the cluster component became a significant stream in my research. In this new chapter, I try to draw together almost a decade of further View Details
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Re: Michael E. Porter
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
territory, all of them are looking for guidance on how to make more rational consumption decisions. Those who know me will not be surprised to learn that I have strong opinions on these issues, many of them informed by research on...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the...
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- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
part-time consultants are considered best-in-class—they are paid industry-competitive wages, and customers include LEGO, Microsoft, and Oracle—75 percent of them live with what others might consider a handicap: They have Asperger syndrome or some form of ASD. Austin...
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
development, and review in quantitative reasoning, accounting, computer skills, and business writing and logical expression. From January 8 to January 30, they became the first group to encounter "Foundations" - the "sequel" to Essential...
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- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
lower the better, with the logic being that more money can then go to actual programs. So an organization might report, "We spend 6 percent on fundraising, whereas the industry average is 12 to 14 percent." That's typical, but...
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by Roger Thompson
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the...
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