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- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
consumer inertia is a big deal in your market, it could be the case that you are not pricing appropriately,” MacKay says. “You may want to reduce prices to attract repeat customers down the line.” Companies often internalize consumer... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
performance of venture capital funds. What could be done to make this information more readily available to investors? A: The lack of transparency in private equity is a major issue that is likely to attract considerable attention in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
million in revenue in 2013, up from $58 million in 2012. And it touts a Net Promoter Score—a customer-satisfaction indicator—in the low 80s, saying it is "significantly higher than Apple and Amazon, and nearly 50 points higher than phone carriers." But naturally, the... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
York-based hedge fund must decide whether to invest in TravelCenters of America (TA), a recent spin-off from a U.S.-based real estate investment trust. The case confronts students with the question: To what extent is this spin-off opportunity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2025
- Blog Post
Meet the Tech Club
running, this conference has been one of HBS's most significant annual events, attracting around 1,000 attendees each year. WESTREK & NYTREK: These spring treks connect HBS students with recruiting opportunities at startups and major... View Details
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Charitable Remainder Trust - Alumni
friends who make planned gifts to HBS Learn More Donor Stories Christopher Harland (MBA 1984) Christopher Harland established a charitable remainder trust to help HBS maintain its excellence and attract the most talented faculty and... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
designed a good platform, a good site that would attract people, and we sent it out thinking that it may have a small reception. “The very first mail-out, we had 300 people. We then decided to continue with this and then to amplify, not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
supply of talent to attract clients first, or vice versa. Building the supply side has been straightforward, but convincing enterprise clients to leverage talent as a service as part of their strategy has been more challenging, Berendt... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
reach across the United States. For the past 10 years, the club has hosted a popular gala in New York, attended by Latino alumni, students, and newly admitted students. But the event was attracting only a portion of the School’s Latino... View Details
- Profile
Diane Esber
knew it was the school I wanted; in fact, it was the only one I applied to," says Dianne. Three things especially attracted her: the campus, the classroom experience and section life. "Most business schools just have a few... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
groups attract the necessary financial investments. “There is no blueprint, as every member is at a different place,” observes Goodwin-Groen. “Our role is to help create opportunities for investment in this sector.” One of the biggest... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
business, he just didn't know when or how. "Dad was good about exposing me to business-never pressuring me into it but always making it seem attractive and interesting," he recalls. After becoming a star basketball player at Yale as an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
booms now being deployed in the Gulf and in the Dalian oil spill in China. Opflex was conceived when oil-contaminated flood waters threatened to shut down Cellect's upstate New York plant in 2006. The spongy green, reusable Opflex was later reformulated to repel water... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made their start-up pitches to a... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
must address a major design problem: Sophisticated investors have been gaming the system by applying specialized screening tools to scoop up the choicest loans with the lowest default rates, leaving less experienced investors with less View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy
are opportunities for large corporations to attract interest outside of the traditional MBA functions and into roles focused on energy and sustainability. Those roles can be hard to find for students, but they are very interested and... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
organizations fosters better problem-solving, innovation, and thoughtful strategic planning. Furthermore, studies have shown that talented candidates seek out diverse work environments. Overcoming unconscious bias in your hiring has a ripple effect of building an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
or strategic. Separately, two research assistants rated each response based on whether the respondent seemed like an attractive job candidate. Results showed that 77 percent of participants had chosen to humblebrag rather than disclose an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
Singapore and Malaysia. Capital in Taiwan and Hong Kong went to the most efficient firms, including small, start-up entrepreneurial firms, and was not based on the political or ethnic status of such firms, he said. Extremely attractive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
have attracted the older, most fuel inefficient used cars. Instead, a $4,500 incentive attracted many perfectly serviceable vehicles. Because of government concerns over fraudulent recycling of trade-ins,... View Details