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- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also suggest that chains that do not franchise at all may cope with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
“Number, please” was the oft-repeated request made by the more than 100,000 mostly female switchboard operators in the early 20th century. Anyone who had a telephone grew to know the familiar voices that connected them to the outside... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) American businesses can’t afford to ignore the reality: The nature of work is changing. If companies hope to hire and hold on to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
information about Cyberposium 2001 can be found at www.cyberposium.com. AASU Conference Looks to the New Economy The 29th annual career and alumni conference sponsored by the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) celebrated the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
luxury boxes and other premium seating - is driven by the exponential growth in players' salaries," explains Dennis R. Robinson (MBA '90), who as COO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851 Americans Do I.T. Better: U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Cash. She elaborated on the community theme, noting, "I've been touched by the dedication with which my former classmates checked on one another's safety and also by the well wishes that have come in from... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
students, such as the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which launched in 2003, followed by the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2011. We’re now 25 years into the annual New Venture Competition sponsored by the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
Rivkin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for research. “The world’s problems are becoming increasingly complex and no longer lend themselves to a single method of research.” Innovative for its time, HBS’s first... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
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And Mark an Era: The Story of the Harvard Business School . Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. Full Text Available . Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School 1908-1945 . Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987. Full Text... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Alumni Books Surviving the College Application Process: Case Studies to Help You Find Your Unique Angle for Success by Lisa Bleich (MBA 1992) (Morgan James Publishing) This book follows the college application journeys of eleven students... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel