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21 Jun 2022
News

Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

impactful roles in tech, while creating a network of Latino innovators who make a difference in the world.” The effort is in response to the very low percentage of people of color working in tech while demand is rising. A 2019 survey by... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2012
News

Curb Your Smartphone Habit

work-related benefits in the process. Are we literally taking our phones to bed with us? In a survey we did of 1,600 managers and professionals in various organizations across the globe, 26 percent admitted to sleeping with their... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

finance. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207086 Survey Masters LLC Harvard Business School Case 107-061 A small survey research partnership has reached the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work

Workers: Untapped Talent we studied workers who are often excluded by traditional hiring processes. In this follow-up, we focus on a large sub-set of hidden workers: part-time workers, who indicated in our survey that if their... View Details

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About | HBS Online

birthday 2020 : HBS Online surpasses 100,000 learners Reimagining Online Business Education In a recent survey of past participants, conducted by City Square Associates, 94 percent of learners said HBS Online is more impactful than other... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Church on Sunday, Work on Monday

managers and with clergy and laypeople from a variety of Christian denominations; case studies of relevant programs for businesspeople; a survey of seminarians; a review of existing literature on executive spiritual development; and... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

2010
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The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk

We address a longstanding puzzle surrounding the unbundling of services occurring over several decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Change; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing Strategy; Media; Service Operations; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Advertising Industry; United States

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08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

how is internal adaptation in employment practices linked to external shifts in gendered beliefs and practices? The authors began by comparing thousands of pages of the firm's internal documents, such as surveys and interviews, as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

drugs? How frequently do physicians prescribe advertised drugs when other drugs or treatments may be equally effective? We surveyed a national probability sample of 643 physicians practicing in a wide variety of specialties. Data were... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Mar 2013
News

A Conversation with Dean Nohria

benefit to doing more, as is evident from our recent experience with the School's US Competitiveness Project. In pondering how to better understand the prospects for American competitiveness, we realized that our alumni represent a unique resource. Indeed, their... View Details

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

results of a salary survey conducted by the French Engineering and Scientist Council, a network of alumni organizations that includes 144 of the country's 240 engineering schools. Respondents shared their latest yearly salary, current... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

their propensity to make things themselves (Experiments 3A and 3B). Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/mochon norton ariely 2012.pdf Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments Authors:Valentine,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Book publishing industry

'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Prior to BookScan, the only source for market data for some individual titles was Best Seller lists compiled by publications such as the New York Times that View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health care at a lower cost for their companies. A survey conducted among large employers this... View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

01 Jun 2002
News

In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

conditions under which such systems were or were not beneficial to the manufacturer.” Interviewing leading VMI-experienced manufacturers and retailers, Kulp identified information transfer as a potential trouble spot. Her insights were supported by View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

01 Jun 2013
News

Notes from W50

presenters. (See www.alumni.hbs.edu/women50 for a full list of speakers, as well as photos and videos from the events.) Professor Robin Ely, senior associate dean for Culture and Community, unveiled the early results of her survey of some... View Details

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

entrepreneurs through a highly competitive fellowship program. The organization agreed to facilitate research on the many early-stage social entrepreneurs who applied to the annual program. The researchers followed up with a survey that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Jul 2024
News

Next Level

from the metropolitan areas on both coasts. She wants to see that change. A 2020 survey conducted by the International Game Developers Association included questions about gender demographics in game development. According to IGDA’s data,... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

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Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events - Recruiting

your event to help guide your team’s discussion. Providing students with an email address or an external feedback survey in your event details can help you gather intel on what interests students about your organization. Quick Tips:... View Details

04 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19

alumni will fit within those industries. When we survey our students each year about what drives them to apply to our MBA program, moving their career forward is consistently listed as one of the top three reasons. Some students want to... View Details

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