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- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
microfinance applied to the problems of education. Specifically, we came to believe that an innovative microfinance-based solution could have a meaningful impact on the reduction of the high dropout rates in primary schools that cause View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
doing so, you have to screen for lone stars. Q: Is there a particular industry or type of firm that is most susceptible to the lone star syndrome? The problem with these people is that they can poison the organization.— Morten T. Hansen A: Companies, industries, and... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
functional products and services. Personal gratification Coding is fun. I see it in fellow members of CODE@HBS and experienced it myself when I took the club’s Python bootcamp last spring. Despite a steep learning curve, I was enticed by... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
($611m). The plant is publicly owned by five Copenhagen-area municipalities. CEO Jacob Simonson led a presentation for our group on how the facility functions within the Copenhagen ecosystem. Amager Bakke provides residents with a dual... View Details
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
regression, mediation analysis, longitudinal data analysis, structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling. Pwr : Power analysis functions along the lines of Cohen (1988). Visualizations Word Cloud Resources Tableau Public : popular... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
the LEFA (Lifelong E-mail Forwarding Address) system was set up and, shortly thereafter, the “E-Mail Your Class or Section” function on the HBS Alumni Web page. The very large volume of e-mails (more than 1,000 a month) and telephone... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
potential for populist reaction to these problems that could lead to damaging legislation. We classified what we heard as 10 potential disrupters of the global market system: the functioning of the financial system; barriers to world... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
than as an economic function or a set of personal characteristics," write the editors in the introduction. The Entrepreneurial Venture will be useful to both practicing and would-be entrepreneurs. When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in... View Details
- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
reconnaissance of potentially hazardous spaces. The quadcopter functions in total darkness, in buildings it has never previously entered, and flies without prior knowledge or programming of the space—even in areas without GPS or... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
research to understand when and for whom cash and non-cash rewards increase intrinsic motivation, organizational commitment, and optimal functioning in order to improve the design and implementation of existing reward programs.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
coffee shop in Los Angeles in 2014 called Dumb Starbucks. Write Deighton and Kornfeld: "The stunt's function as promotion for the show was eventually deduced by journalists and the public. The delayed reveal was an element of play." A... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
broad interest, especially in "knowledge industries" and "knowledge economies." It is also a topic filled with frustration on the part of practitioners, and the level of resource commitment to this function waxes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
functional support units. Business units to customers: The priorities of the customer value proposition are communicated to targeted customers and reflected in specific customer feedback and measures. Business support units to suppliers... View Details
- Web
Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
fact, many nineteenth-century brand names, such as Kodak, Singer, Campbell’s, and Wrigley’s, still survive today. 46 Easy-to-read and remember slogans, such as “A Leader in Quality,” or “Where’s the Man We Can’t Cure,” paired with brand names View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
knowledge at the same time. We think there’s room for 15 or 20 large-scale labs exploring a range of issues, from how companies and regulators can use technology to address the climate crisis, to the ways in which finance and accounting View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
of something, but representing it in a very different way. That’s our model. When we think about digital transformation, we are thinking about all of the functions in the School—and we mean all the functions—and how they could be done in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
off to the side, wondering if there’s something I’m just not getting about the party. When I looked left and right, I realized so many of these interactions that unlock opportunity are a function of factors like where you’d grown up, what... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
The techniques include creating a demand-space map to predict how big a share can be won with the proper mix of emotional and functional benefits; determining a strategic direction for where to place investment bets; delivering the core... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
that year of treatment, I could barely function at all. After considerable discussion with my wife, Janet, a psychology professor at the University of Pittsburgh, we decided to start over in a distant place with a very different context.... View Details