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- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in gaming platforms; analyze... View Details
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photographers of the Farm Security Administration 1935-1936 depict the life of migrant famers and sharecroppers affected by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Farm Security Administration, and its predecessor the Resettlement Administration were government... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
without retail experience? Julia encouraged them to get relevant summer experience, like her internship at New Balance. She jumped on an e-commerce project there, and did related independent work during her 2nd year that definitely helped... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, and lawyers. That... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
perhaps reflecting the company’s reputation for not rewarding those who find flaws in the company’s technology. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, probably has several concerns to deal with, and perhaps we can help him think through the options.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Clubs News Clubs News Club Webinars Explore Untapped Potential of FemTech The HBS Women’s Association of Greater New York (HBSWANY), and the HBS Association of Northern... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
influenced the industry by proving that intellectual property could be monetized through alliances with big pharmaceutical partners, according to Pisano. Genentech cut its first deal with Eli Lilly in 1982 and View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
a new purpose for a corporation. And they listed five things. And in order those five things were number one, delivering value to customers. Fair enough. Number two, investing in our employees. Okay. Number three, View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
of: how do these groups work, what deals do they look at, and ultimately do they make a difference for the companies they fund? Q: Is crowdfunding a threat to more traditional notions of venture capital? A: There have been a lot of... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
complex task requiring an almost messianic set of beliefs and the ability to communicate them in convincing ways. For a classic example of this, read Robert Caro's prize-winning biography of builder Robert Moses who transformed the cityscape of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
terrible thing. Not only does it create a new social class of underground activity in the U.S., but it also creates millions of broken homes ... in Mexico." He concludes that legalizing the free flow of labor into the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
skills," he says. "When I arrived at HBS, I had never taken a business course in my life," says Earls. "I did have some experience in certain areas, such as human resources, but at HBS it all came together. I picked up new skills, like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
specifics are determined lower down in the organization. Even if you get the plan right, implementing it is a whole other project. Some of Clark's research in the book deals with the extent to which the operating organization also has to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
today most often is associated with good management practice. It is thought by some to generate the trust that fosters everything from cooperation to speed in decision making and execution. It forces managers either to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
looking to become what they want to be—as opposed to a series of vendor shops.— Pat Chadwick, Bloomingdale's Alan Barnett, senior vice president of merchandise planning and information systems for Barneys New York, noted that "the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
companies, remain overwhelmingly white and male (81% of VC firms don’t have a single Black investor. Not one). Due to a notorious reliance on personal networks for deal sourcing, most VCs lack the network infrastructure necessary to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
that. They were an extremely sophisticated group who knew about the world, and they really motivated me.” One of only a few African Americans in his class, O’Neal says simply: “Not a lot of people looked like me.” That was also the case in the treasurer’s office at GM... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the... View Details