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HBS - The year in Review
students, and staff displayed the resilience, flexibility, and innovative spirit that have become our hallmark in these challenging times. Students Arrive More than 9,700 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 1,000 applicants in the Doctoral Programs;... View Details
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
“Our conversion rate from click to sign-up was 50 percent.” “We interviewed a bunch of people and they said they’d use our product if we built it.” These quotes suggest the entrepreneurs may have found an audience interested enough to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
Gökgöz and his leadership team had to decide whether to maintain their flexible model or adapt it to meet emerging organizational and market demands. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to understand and improve the design and management of... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
target market clients. Keywords: Service Design ; Certification ; Auditing ; Auditor Reputation ; Carbon Credits ; Carbon ; Rating Agency Disagreement ; Ratings ; Climate... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
can include small “lifestyle” businesses, multi-generational family businesses, high-growth, venture funded technology businesses, and new ventures designed to commercialize breakthrough discoveries in life sciences, clean tech, and other... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 21 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: Individual and Organizational Effects
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
1990s produced relatively more patents by the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in Internet adoption to those that were not. We see little difference in the growth rate of patenting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
academic psychologists, Harvard Business School professors, directors of organizations, and government officials. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51447 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy The Market View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
1920s to 8.5 percent in 1932. 18 Brands were built up by spending heavily on advertising. As a percentage of sales, advertising averaged 25 percent between 1921 and 1933, thereby funding a series of noteworthy campaigns conceived by J. Walter Thompson. This View Details
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni
Fund There are two ways you can make a gift through your donor-advised fund: Support HBS now by recommending a grant to Harvard Business School (legal name: “President and Fellows of Harvard College”). Support HBS in the future by View Details
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General Management - Faculty & Research
offering specialized trade finance services to Asian markets eased both financial and information frictions. Tariff-hit firms with specialized banks borrowed at lower rates and were 15 pps more likely and 3 months faster to establish new... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
to a rite of passage like a wedding. Group rituals abound in the world of sports; for example, Notre Dame’s football team always walks the same route to the stadium. Many group activities involve food, from community potlucks to global View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively incorrect—questions (the "artful dodge"), a detection failure that goes hand in hand with a failure to rate dodgers more negatively. We propose that dodges go... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - The year in Review
Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 15% and 4%, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2023 were awarded to 947 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,992. MBA CLASS OF 2024 Students 1,015... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about the Bitcoin system itself. This article presents the platform's design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
A variety of academic work argues a relationship exists between the structure of a development organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often said to "mirror" the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Derivatives and Swaps (1) Credit (8) Crime and Corruption (43) Crisis Management (51) Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues (23) Culture (10) Currency Exchange Rate (3) Currency (12) Curriculum and Courses (2) Customer Focus and... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment... View Details