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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
guests a unique experience and relaxing respite from the fast-forward pace of modern life. Turtle Island: A Personalized Paradise Have you had it with impossible deadlines, frustrating flights, and late-night staff meetings? Then picture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn Abstract—We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
world of the HBS classroom, a dynamic environment where faculty display their talent not only for presenting new ideas and breathing fresh life into traditional academics, but also for drawing out the wisdom and experience of everyone... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
and the paramedic. In a way, top management loses power over its employees. In gray zones involving material pursuits—such as when a clothing item that could have been sold at a higher price to a customer is kept hidden until it becomes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
for the introduction of health products in developing countries where consumers may be uncertain about product quality, and price subsidies are common policy instruments. Through a field experiment selling an unfamiliar health product in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
Warner. However, it has also begun to explore new ways to expand its online advertising model, experimenting with more elaborate forms of advertising (involving graphics, animation, and video). Google has also begun exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Union address in January. YouTube is the biggest, most visible platform for this shorter-form, nontraditional content, but other multichannel networks are springing up to offer a differentiated experience to win viewers. Jason Kilar (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016
Automated Text Analysis By: Mankad, Shawn, Hyunjeong "Spring" Han, Joel Goh, and Srinagesh Gavirneni Abstract—Customer reviews submitted at Internet travel portals are an important yet underexplored new resource in obtaining feedback on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business thinking, sparking innovative View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never anticipated. Another MBA '71 graduate,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
The Mitchell Family and Mitchells/Richards Harvard Business School Case 605-047 Describes a small, luxury retail chain's operational sophistication achieved through the use of technology and "high-touch" customer-service. A family-run business, Mitchells has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28
school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
and executive Kent Lineback have long studied the question of how managers grow and advance. Their experience brings them to a simple but troubling observation: Most bosses reach a certain level of proficiency and stay there—short of what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
expansion strategies across HBP’s market groups. Together, Desmarais and McConville will continue to refine the firm’s strategy and build a deeper understanding of the customer experience, while exploring opportunities to advance digital... View Details