Attraction - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Protecting conservation land while turning a profit

Like any private equity firm, The Lyme Timber Company seeks attractive financial returns for its investors. But Jim Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing director at Lyme, considers a second audience—the public—when making decisions about his... View Details

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

for the auction house, which must determine how to allocate marketing and other expenditures between buyers and sellers to attract new business. As more job seekers sign on to Monster.com, more employers are willing to be paying customers... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

attract top talent.” Leadership Fellows enabled access to a variety of qualified candidates, among whom Henry stood out. “He was absolutely my number one choice: he combined an amazing tech background with public sector experience.”... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

aren’t working may be more quickly eliminated; patients then can be moved over to the arms of the trial that are seeing a response. The group is working to analyze indicators contributing to the successes and challenges of platform trials; identifying best business... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

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Luciana Baigun

Collaborate.com, a startup in Cambridge, I saw all the excitement TEDxBoston was generating – it was attracting people from all industries and walks of life,” she says. It occurred to her that TED and HBS could be the perfect match. “HBS... View Details

08 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Career Choices for the Class of 2018

organizations and opportunities where they’ll be able to hit the ground running and make a difference right away, with 8% of the class starting their own company at graduation, and 9% of the job seekers joining a start-up. We find that while many students are View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology

attract top talent.” Leadership Fellows enabled access to a variety of qualified candidates, among whom Henry stood out. “He was absolutely my number one choice: he combined an amazing tech background with public sector experience.”... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

compensation committee wants to admit that its CEO is below the median. In fact, most want to place their CEO in the upper quartile. As a result, CEOs are like the children of Lake Wobegon — all are above average. Another upward pressure occurs when boards are trying... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

Since its earliest days, HBS has committed to educating students with the highest potential for leadership, regardless of their financial circumstances. As a result, the School is able to attract and enroll exceptional women and men from... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Katie Laidlaw

Why was getting a degree from HBS important to you? HBS attracts people similar to me, yet different from me in every way. I was particularly drawn to challenging myself in this learning environment and meeting new people from around the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

30 Nov 2021
News

Cold Calculations

electrical engineering and 58 patents, asked the venture capitalist for help in setting up the organization. In the intervening years, the small nonprofit has attracted interest from such organizations as the United Nations and the Arctic... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow

share this transformational experience with others,” says Jennifer Lee, who cochaired the class gift effort with Tricia Glynn (both MBA ’08). Murray was attracted to HBS because of the Healthcare Initiative, the case method, and the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2004
News

Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health

but most have been driven away by fears of liability and government discount price-setting. “No one company or handful of companies can undertake all the research” necessary to produce needed vaccines, he said. Incentives must be introduced, so as to View Details

Keywords: Merck; public health; global public health; vaccines; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Shared Value & Investors - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Investing The Purpose of Investing The fundamental purpose of investing for society is to allocate capital to companies who can earn an attractive return Investors create the greatest societal value by selecting companies that will use... View Details

26 Oct 2015
News

Sal Khan Goes Back to School

The revolution started several years ago with Khan Academy, an innovative online portal of educational videos and tutorials that has attracted millions of followers and showed educators a thing or two about the way today’s children learn.... View Details

Keywords: Khan Academy; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
News

Entrepreneurship at HBS

corporations. Yet the course attracted one hundred students in its first year and became a fixture in the elective MBA curriculum for two decades. The popularity of The Management of New Enterprises and of related courses developed in the... View Details

22 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 22

Corporate Finance Attracting Long-Term Investors Through Integrated Thinking and Reporting: A Clinical Study of a Biopharmaceutical Company By: Knauer, Andrew, and George Serafeim Abstract—Faced with a large percentage of investors that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
News

Jump-Start

Investing in HBS Giving Through HBS Giving Together From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’ FAQ Completing its second year, the School’s Minimum Viable Product Award (MVP) program attracted... View Details

Keywords: contests; Finance

28 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1

reflected in Company Presentation attendance – students want to use their time, and your time, wisely! Companies who typically hire many students, or have a well-known brand on campus, may attract larger groups at presentations.... View Details