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- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
or the Eiffel Tower instead of a picture of you. But if you have a photo of a dog where your face should be, it might deter people from renting your property." The researchers'... View Details
- 02 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Profits and Economic Development
Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker
- September 1986 (Revised April 1990)
- Case
Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH
Mueller-Lehmkuhl sells apparel fasteners and rents attaching machines. It views these two products as effectively a single item and prices them accordingly, the fasteners at high profit and its attaching machines at a loss. The cost system allocates the cost of the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Profit; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Japan; Germany
Cooper, Robin. "Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH." Harvard Business School Case 187-048, September 1986. (Revised April 1990.)
- 25 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Video: Tackling the Housing Crisis One Renovation at a Time
Tawan Davis, MBA 2006, Founder and CEO of The Steinbridge Group, along with COO Sacasha Brown, MBA 2006, is defying the odds and creating a positive ripple effect for working class families. Based in... View Details
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
collection of scientific volumes, and in the basements of a series of rented apartments, he devoted himself to the development of a synthetic light-polarizing material. "You... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
network is really important.” Rachel immersed herself in the opportunities that the HBS alumni network provided her – leveraging it to better educate herself on key things like fundraising as a female... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Airbnb Adopts Rules to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
with Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf of MIT Sloan School of Management. The researchers focus on one of the most important... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
he told the Boston Business Journal (January 114, 1999). Added Krasnow, "The [medical] system today doesn't really provide the resources people need. Patients are discharged from hospitals very quickly."... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- News
Digital Discrimination in a Sharing Economy
- September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Great Lakes Banking Group: Data Management
By: Shane Greenstein and Christine Snively
In May 2016, Michael Rechtin, an expert in international data center law, advised global financial services firm Great Lakes Banking Group (GLBG) on its plans to upgrade its data centers. The bank’s data processing and storage systems were in need of an update, and... View Details
Greenstein, Shane, and Christine Snively. "Great Lakes Banking Group: Data Management." Harvard Business School Case 618-021, September 2017. (Revised March 2018.)
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future Episode 8 of Climate Stories focuses on HBS alumna Diana Rivera, director of... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
four months. We predict and find that should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are held significantly longer than want DVDs (e.g., action films) within-customer. Similarly, we also predict and find that people are more likely to rent DVDs in one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Professor Leonard A. Schlesinger. Approximately 115 people attended the sold-out networking night, where Schlesinger presented a case on Rent the Runway, an online designer... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
interest income increased as a percentage of total revenues, while Harvard Business Publishing and Housing, Rents & Other decreased. Executive Education surpassed expectations, generating record tuition revenue of $245 million in fiscal... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
sat to your left and right in an HBS classroom. “Jennie Baik (MBA 2008, co-founder of Orchard Mile) encouraged me to dive in, and startup life was always easier to navigate with sage advice from classmates like Karen Moon (MBA 2008),” Twist shared. “Jenny Fleiss (MBA... View Details