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    The Founders and Finance

    In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war’s end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking... View Details

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    Take Control of Your Personal Brand

    branding is all about. We all want to be well thought of in the minds of others who are important to our happiness and to the achievement of our goals. We all have a personal brand, whether we like it or... View Details
    • 05 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

    most people don’t,” says Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “People overestimate the negative consequences giving feedback for themselves, as well as underestimate the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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    By: Vincent Pons
    Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

    He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
    • November 1985 (Revised December 1994)
    • Background Note

    Major Home Appliance Industry in 1984 (Revised)

    By: John R. Wells
    Analyzes the major home appliance industry in the U.S. in 1984 and gives a profile of the key competitors. May be used with Major Home Appliance Industry in 1988 and Maytag in 1984. View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 01 Dec 2008
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

    debtor in person. In such a scenario, students were told that their rating should reflect whether various parts of a job could be offshored, and if so, how well each part could View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 07 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

    challenges these leaders confronted and strategies for how to address them. Organizational change is never easy, but our roundtable discussions made clear that achieving digital maturity can be an especially arduous journey, even for... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • May 2022
    • Article

    Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software

    By: Frank Nagle
    While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source; Applications and Software; Policy; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution
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    • 19 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business

    • 29 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 29

    equilibrium outcome of a game where a person can-at a cost-look ahead, investigate, and announce a set of (intended or actual) choices to the rest of the organization. Strategy is also-in some precise sense-the smallest set of decisions that needs to View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

    majority,” write the authors, who include Andrea Bernini from the University of Oxford as well as Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa, both from the University of Nottingham. County-by-county records compiled The Voting Rights Act... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 07 Feb 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO

    Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Julie Wulf
    • April 2024
    • Article

    A Machine Learning Algorithm Predicting Risk of Dilating VUR among Infants with Hydronephrosis Using UTD Classification

    By: Hsin-Hsiao Scott Wang, Michael Lingzhi Li, Dylan Cahill, John Panagides, Tanya Logvinenko, Jeanne Chow and Caleb Nelson
    Backgrounds: Urinary Tract Dilation (UTD) classification has been designed to be a more objective grading system to evaluate antenatal and post-natal UTD. Due to unclear association between UTD classifications to specific anomalies such as vesico-ureteral reflux (VUR),... View Details
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Testing and Trials; AI and Machine Learning; Health Industry
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    • July 2018 (Revised January 2021)
    • Case

    RunKeeper

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how venture capital can distort a founder’s view. It encompasses issues such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the... View Details
    Keywords: Early Stage Funding; Pivot; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Model; Health Industry
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    • 05 Dec 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

    you may not be able to learn anywhere else," says Alvin E. Roth, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit at HBS and a longtime champion of experimental economics. For example, to track how viewers watch... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 May 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

    the concept. That's the view of Mark Stanley, who commented that "These terms do not fit together-Servant & Leader It's just another way poor leaders attempt to elevate themselves above those they 'serve' an entirely unhealthy approach for a leader to take Our... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 16 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

    they'll learn by doing this, but it will be much more effective if we really have an understanding that a manager is also a teacher, and that therefore a manager needs to know how to teach. SS: Part of the role of the teacher is to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Feb 2015
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    First Look: February 3

    customers that purchased multiple insurance policies since they tended to be more loyal and profitable. Whether these moves would be sufficient to catch up with GEICO was unclear, but they seemed to View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 24

    ideas to a wider audience. The chapter looks at the origins of Porter's interest in clusters, which turns out to be a natural extension of his earlier work on companies. It identifies the key characteristics of Porter's conceptual... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Solving for Z

    With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government