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- 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016
components. In essence, a small number of components generate a large proportion of system costs. However, we find major differences in the potential benefits available from refactoring these systems, related to their differing designs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
establishing a mission—and then make sure it’s communicated in a way that is memorable, differentiable, credible, inspirational, aspirational, and simple. Is the organization well managed? “People who give significant gifts dive into that question pretty fiercely,”... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
of all, I'll say that this isn't a crisis, but a significant correction. It's the result of a general reduction in confidence in the Indian economy and, in turn, has fed further angst. The fall of the rupee comes at a time of corrections... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
domestic bank operating in more than 20 states from 2002 to 2006. In addition to proving what earlier models only hinted at—that new challengers offering high levels of service can siphon off the best customers of long-standing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
technologies and business models that his and other companies are exploring to prepare for the energy transition and mitigate climate change. One session featuring Susan Morrice, CEO, Co-Founder, and Chairperson of Belize Natural Energy,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
architecture. They were locked into their old architecture as competitors like Apple built a device plus a third party app model that brought a much broader and appealing range of capabilities to users. By the time BlackBerry started... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Fialkow, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, he would first employ the "earnest young man routine" to get an interview with an old guy in business who could explain the ins and outs of the industry. "Keep your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
both their own companies and others in the area.” In addition to the program’s value for local companies and managers, the revenue generated supports gifts to area nonprofits and has funded scholarships for Harvard MBA students from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
that draw on the School’s expertise in general management, leadership, innovation, and business models to advance new ideas. photo by Russ Campbell “In the process of sharing, you make each school better,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
(shortest expected processing time). Moreover, they exercise more discretion as they accumulate experience. Exploiting random assignment of tasks to doctors’ queues, instrumental variable models reveal that these deviations erode... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
personality theory into a multi-level model of information acquisition and idea generation. We posit that innovator and peer personality are critical factors conditioning who will generate high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study - Course Catalog
company’s product. Too often, students graduate from HBS, raise capital and then investigate how to sell their company’s product or service. In this course, students are expected to experiment with different sales models and create a... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
the checks are more reflective of the population, the people receiving the checks will become more representative of the population.”—Hayley Barna (MBA 2010), general partner, First Round Capital Today Barna sits on the other side of the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Abstract An organization's compensation strategy plays a critical role in motivating workers and attracting high-performing employees. Most of the research linking compensation to strategy relies on the principal-agent model of economics,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
settings. They cried out for a theoretical explanation. So Eric von Hippel, Christoph Hienerth, and I teamed up to see if we could construct a theory to explain the phenomena. Q: Can you describe in general the pathways user innovations... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
same modest Omaha home for nearly 70 years, drives a 10-year-old car, and generally shuns the limelight. Erik Roberts advised you eloquently yesterday to be generous. Buffett has been a true model of... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
other growth episodes end in reversion to stagnation or collapse. We create an analytical model that is capable of generating both transitory and sustained episodes of accelerated growth. The new feature is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne