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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
faculty, Hart, MBA '81, DBA '95, had direct knowledge of her course material: in 1985, she was one of the four founding officers of Staples Inc., the office-products retailer whose sales now exceed $10 billion per year. Hart wanted her... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
digital platforms' unique properties, opportunities, and risks, and develop scalable strategies that drive growth and deliver a competitive advantage. 5 weeks 6-7 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course... View Details
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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online
Multiple Formats Digital Marketing Strategy $1,850 Next 7-week session starts September 10th Enroll Now Start Anytime Craft data-driven digital marketing strategies that effectively reach, convert, and retain customers in a dynamic online environment. 6 modules 6-7... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
more employees per dollar of revenue than almost any other industry. Balancing compensation and consumers’ willingness to pay is challenging. Lena Goldberg: Many people are speculating that we’ll have far fewer restaurants in the fine... View Details
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Product Management - Course Catalog
exercises. Usually there are two classes per week, one that is case-based and the other that is exercise-based. Cases you are familiar with. Exercises are formatted in a similar way to cases except they require students to submit their... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
their skills has given nurses greater bargaining power to negotiate higher salaries and better working conditions. Prior to the pandemic, Nightingale Nurses charged about $85 an hour for its nurses (about 75% goes to the nurse, about 25% to the company). Today, the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
$5 per viewer. However, Ackman’s ROI metric for this series is akin to that of Diogenes’ search for an honest man or Lot’s for righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah. “It’s really expensive,” he admits, “but want to know something? If... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). In a country with a per capita GDP of over $4,000, the vast majority of the population subsists on less than $2 per day, and little investment has been made in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717497-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-498 Imprimis (D) This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A, B, & C). It describes Imprimis’s 2015 decision to develop a $1 per pill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
few natural resources, a small, destroyed manufacturing base, and income per capita less than a quarter of Britain’s to one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. By 2015 its GDP per capita was over 40%... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
services, Mills says, citing the experience of milliner Linda Pagan, owner of The Hat Shop in New York. “She decided to create these crazy videos and put them on Instagram, and they’ve taken off,” Mills says. “She still takes customer orders over the phone, but now she... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
(“treated” firms) grew to twice the number of investments per year than in other, or “untreated” firms. (Source: “Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital”) Of the firms that Nanda and his colleagues looked at over the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
nation, Keloharju believes the findings are generalizable to other countries, including the United States. Widely cited for its management practices, Sweden has 24 companies on the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest companies in the world, for instance, and on a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
patents per employee than larger firms, and employ more than 40 percent of high-tech workers in America. “Small business owners feel that despite being creditworthy today, banks remain either wary or entirely unwilling to lend to them.”... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
double-or-nothing on a diet bet. A group of obese hospital patients agreed to a "deposit contract," banking a small amount of their own money into a pot each day during a 32-week weight-loss trial. The research team agreed to match the deposits dollar-for-dollar; the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl Sunday is sure to bring the usual barrage of clever soda, beer, and car ads featuring everyone from Vegas showgirls selling Coca-Cola to pop celebrity Psy charming us to buy pistachios Gangnam-style. But at a whopping $3.7 million View Details
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no women on the board, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
doing this review with the HBS Club of Chicago for over a decade,” says Calkins. “It’s such a great opportunity to get business-minded people together and talk about these ads from a business perspective.” At $5 million per 30-second spot... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley