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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
students to achieve academic and social-emotional growth. From Hurricane Island to HBS Pearson has been associated with Outward Bound for the better part of four decades, either as a field supervisor, program director, or trustee. “I started with the Hurricane Island... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
impact our service and quality. How do we grow without diluting our main value proposition?” The Answers: What do you want to be when you grow up? A successful regional player in the New Jersey marketplace or a successful nationwide... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Time Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Vanderbilt University, 1971 B.A., Political Science LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Trust is a powerful tool in helping you lead. You... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
Cofounder, CEO & Board Chair, Numenta, Inc. Former CEO, Palm Computing, Inc., & Handspring, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1977 B.A., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Integrity... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
needs of different consumer groups. Casadesus-Masanell, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Hervás-Drane, assistant professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, found that competition has three View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
huge impact on the economy of Peru, where so many people work in the industry. If you want to have that kind of impact, it's not enough for people to admire and appreciate what you are doing—you have to have the numbers. HBSWK: What would you say Acurio's View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
school is sufficient to produce the set of student optimal stable matchings. Our main theoretical result is that a student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism that breaks indifferences the same way at every school is not dominated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
(A): The Rise, 1972–2003 At the end of 2003, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a diversified media group with revenues of $8.9 billion, could claim leadership positions in all three of its main businesses. Clear Channel Broadcasting was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
following supplements to the main text: (i) additional facts regarding the size and concentration of the CDS market; (ii) some analysis relating buyer and seller capital to the CDS-bond basis; (iii) a discussion and some support evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
corporations need corporate boards that are also ambitious and accommodative of them. According to the authors, good corporate governance and financial performance are the main requirements for good board-CEO relations. Topics including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
difference between both kinds of firms is that OS share their technological advances on the primary good, while P keep their innovations private. The main contribution of the paper is to determine conditions under which OS and P coexist... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
the quality of their own work and to deliver it effectively to clients. Q: What is important now about knowledge workers from both a business and a theoretical perspective? Where do you see beliefs about performance playing out in business today? A: Some have pointed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
To New Beginnings: Reflecting on Transitioning Careers and Starting a Family while at HBS
grew into myself – I found my strength, my confidence, and who I wanted to be in this world. Only two years ago, the Army was one of the main parts of my identity. But in December of 2017, with tightness in my chest and an inability to... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
as a whole, compared with 48 percent of men. The closing of nonessential shops inspired a particularly substantial gender gap in April, with 55 percent of women believing the closures were necessary, compared to 46 percent of men. Fewer men than women take precautions... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
building a bedroom suburb or a freewheeling entrepreneurial hub. A competitive infrastructure is vital: Each of these projects put down a main trunk road of more than 20 kilometers, with room for mass transit in the median. Each invested... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
Radcliffe College, indicating a personal commitment to educating women well before they were officially admitted into the full two-year MBA Program. In 1965, the School hired an administrative assistant to the Dean, whose main... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
and magnitude of their capital flows in and out of the funds. We use dollar-weighted returns (a form of IRR) to assess the properties of actual investor returns on hedge funds and compare them to buy-and-hold fund returns. Our main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
change initiative more recently? What were the main customer service problems that were harming the company? And what did the "Mystery Shopper" component reveal? A: In the late 1990s, the company's comparable-store sales gains... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Minal Mehta
bold, and creative, and takes the edge off of selling, which I constantly have to do." Which HBS case do you remember most, and why? "I find myself constantly thinking back to Professor Anita Elberse's SMICI class on Warner Bros. The View Details
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of ‘what is my calling?’ It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me, that I could have fun doing,... View Details