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11 Sep 2017
Blog Post

7 Lessons from My Time at HBS

initially certain my way of thinking was the right one. Yet at the end of the project, I realized often that a specific point I had not understood led the project to new directions and ways of thinking. Post-MBA I will seek out diverse... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

lives, forcing incumbent brands to reinvent themselves to match the experiences that Apple, Nike, Google, Warby Parker, and the rest of the brands they love have taught them to expect. It’s not enough today for brands to look across their categories at what their View Details

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

must expect health plans to direct patients to excellent providers, not those provider networks that offer the biggest discounts.” What to do? The most important single change necessary is for employers to think about health care in terms... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

within a set of constraints, both direct and indirect (For example) (A) recent Labor Department proposed rule just reiterated that the duty of (ERISA retirement) plan fiduciaries is to maximize investment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55802 forthcoming Journal of Medical Economics Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

juggernaut.” While much has changed for Goldman and other investment firms in the last year, its rise to prominence — driven by extraordinary individuals — is a matter of record. The following excerpts from The Partnership look at two of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

rocket launches. “When SpaceX began, everybody laughed and wondered how this billionaire guy could come up with a company that was even remotely relevant,” says Gautier Brunet (MBA 2015), a former rocket engineer who works for Seabury Group, a consulting and View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Mar 2004
What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

customer loyalty management initiatives? What directions should customer loyalty management take in the future? Is it really worth the money invested in it? What do you think? Original Article How many times... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

percent of college students who show symptoms of depression, and the 70 percent of youths with diagnosed mental illness who are currently in the juvenile justice system. “A significant amount of the funding in mental health is directed... View Details

Keywords: April White

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

investing the time or recruiting people to improve those processes.” The researchers conducted the survey over nine months between October 2015 and June 2016, in partnership with the membership organization WomenCorporateDirectors... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

capital to fund its investment thesis, which was derived from Tomas and Rodrigo’s belief that the rise of Colombia’s middle class signaled an enormous untapped investment opportunity. Jaguar hoped to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Feb 2018
First Look

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

Abstract—We give a direct proof of one-sided strategy-proofness for worker-firm matching under continuously transferable utility. A new “Lone Wolf” theorem (Jagadeesan et al., 2017) for settings with transferable utility allows us to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

impossible feat, claimed by a growing number of companies, is achieved by calculating the greenhouse-gas emissions of the organization's operations, investing in energy efficiency and other methods to reduce those emissions, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

international trade and investment. In 1965 he was asked to direct the School's Multinational Enterprise Project to study the operations of U.S.- and foreign-based multinationals. Vernon's team looked at these organizations in terms of... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time... View Details

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

teams, (3) board-management relations, and (4) executive compensation. We discuss theoretical implications, and consider future directions and research opportunities. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53344... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2018: Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality While corporate tax cuts increase investment, the gains from this View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

18 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

Organization Katie Urban, Digital Strategy & Communications Specialist, CRC Companies LLC Describe your organization in three to five sentences. CRC Companies LLC (CRC) is a national real estate development and investment firm with... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

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