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- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
this team tackles in a week is staggering: Could we make it easier for people to apply for dog licenses? Is there a better way to alert Bostonians to upcoming street closures? How could we track what neighborhood-specific content citizens... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research
companies. Also includes private equity information. Individual accounts needed. Please see More Info page for instructions. CB Insights & Industry Analytics CB Insights is a private company database that tracks global venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
means measuring impact, in other words? VG: A lot of our research is around measurement: how to think about it, how to track impact over a period of time, how to compare the impact of different investments just as you would compare... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
voice in our global economy. One small example: with 92 million Facebook users, India is on track to become the largest Facebook user market by 2016, outgrowing the US with 152 million users. The scale of India’s challenges is also... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
the time of writing. Discussion expanded beyond the case to include the current landscape of emissions tracking and the range of regulatory and ratings agencies involved. Students discussed if car manufacturers should be held accountable... View Details
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
increases” Grouping products into a category shows people the way to make clear judgments about how to spend their money, Karmarkar says. Seeing similar options seems to reinforce the idea that the consumer is on the right track by... View Details
- 29 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?
important question: How do we categorize and portray the protagonists in each case so that faculty members can quickly identify them in our database, hopefully leading to more usage? The CRG developed new systems and processes to collect identity information directly... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
director of state operations, he was charged with keeping priority projects on track and handling any related crises. A year and a half into his job, the pandemic hit, and he became the point person for the state’s COVID response efforts.... View Details
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Turnarounds and Transformation
text-decoration:underline">Peloton to report lower cash burn on bumpy road to turnaround, Reuters, 31 January 2023 Peloton Interactive: Turnaround Largely on Track Despite Many Moving Pieces, Deutsche Bank report in LSEG Workspace, 2... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
Technology Integration by Marco Iansiti (Harvard Business School Press) In the old days, coping with technological change was simple: you kept track of developments, tried to decide if they had legs, and implemented them when the market... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
check the box! They’ll have you run the bake sale! Don’t check the box! They’ll have you run the fair! Don’t check the box! They’ll have you run the lice check! Check the box, my friend, and you had better take care. —Excerpt from “Don’t Check the Box!”, by Laurie... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
family has grown. When his wife, Ann, was diagnosed with cancer eight years ago, he reshuffled his priorities, cut down on travel, and pledged to be home for dinner at least twenty nights a month. Asked about his biggest personal accomplishment, the affable Doerr says... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
After serving significant stints with Booz Allen, Yahoo! and Facebook, Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) can justifiably claim expertise in strategy, consulting, and social media. Although she regards her track record with pride, she sees herself... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?
important question: How do we categorize and portray the protagonists in each case so that faculty members can quickly identify them in our database, hopefully leading to more usage? The CRG developed new systems and processes to collect identity information directly... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
performance of hotels versus Airbnb, the researchers used hotel data from STR, which tracks more than 161,000 hotels, as well as proprietary data provided by Airbnb, creating "the perfect setup to study market competition between new... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
cost of $480 million and the centerpiece of the 2008 Olympics, "has no regular tenant." Instead, having fallen far from Olympic glory, it's a place where tourists now pay $20 a head to race around the track on Segways. Beyond... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Post’s total 2006 revenue of $676 million is on track to fall 29 percent by 2010 and 37 percent five years after that. Online gains wouldn’t even begin to compensate for print losses until 2015, and it could take well past the year 2020... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
the need for change puts itself at a distinct disadvantage to one that tracks the Four Rs along with indicators of learning and innovation. The Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
tracked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. For voters between the ages of 18 and 29, the picture was even worse, with a 40 percent turnout. Less than 20 percent of Americans have faith in the democratic... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
Harvard Business School. The experiment was typical of thinking in those days: If only we had better ways of communicating, especially better ways of tracking customer preferences and demand. Now we do. Another notion prevalent in those... View Details