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- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Transparency, the concept if not the reality, is all the rage in business circles. If you knew why a company charged a certain price for a product, would you be more willing to pay it? If your boss confessed her managerial screw-ups, would you feel more comfortable... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Rawiah Abdallah
grassroots campaign that engaged students with Cairo's slum communities." One objective was to build a bridge between the privileged students and their less-fortunate neighbors. "The other goal was to develop the community, to... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
That Costs HOW Much?
Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be difficult to execute and confusing to shoppers. Research offers alternative approaches to getting the price right. How Would You... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
With more MBA women in line to become the next generation of top corporate officers, there is a growing need for female role models in the classroom. This presents a challenge for business educators, since for many years most of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
hardest part of writing the book? Definitely matching experts and topics. It wasn’t just a matter of choosing people with expertise; it was also finding those who could deliver the information in 600 words... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
develop and may interact with credibility in complex ways, so that relational contracts may often be difficult to build. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-061.pdf Under-Savers Anonymous:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
complicated, Kaplan says. One reason is the multiplicity of payers, including Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance companies, with reams of contracts differing in coverage and procedure prices. The... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
in the contract negotiations. DM: So in your own business, you've been in this position where you were faced with choosing purpose over profits. Can you talk about those circumstances and the choice that you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
Launching Technology Ventures explore an alternative path, one designed to sidestep many of the missteps: the lean startup methodology. The idea is to launch as quickly as possible with a minimum viable product (MVP). View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
several years ago. Both advise prospective students that the rankings provide little useful information for matching one’s ambitions with a particular school’s program. Stepping into the fray, the Graduate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
Dan Curran (MBA ’00), administrative director of the School’s Humanitarian Leadership Program. Most importantly, centralized recovery planning should take a backseat to helping survivors with immediate recovery needs, such as clearing... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
projects, for example, don’t generate enough water bill revenue to pay for themselves. But, rather than go without water for lack of current funds or skills, municipalities like Algiers, Algeria, have contracted for water View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample, but do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
closer match between content and audience interest. Zhu has other research in the works related to ad-sponsored business models, including one with Robert Seamans at New York University that considers how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Taking the Lead in Support of HBS
matter of thinking it through, making a plan, and then executing. Annual giving to HBS is a unique op-portunity for graduates who work for companies with matching gift programs to leverage their impact."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
musicologists to codify pieces of music, ranging from classical to unknown indie bands, according to 450 distinct musical characteristics. This digital “Music Genome Project” matches the musical “DNA” of pieces listeners say they like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers
supporting them as they identify and then realize ambitious research agendas—requires significant investment. Teaching is a skill that is developed and refined over time. Few new faculty members arrive at the School with experience in the... View Details