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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Science Buddy
extensive information and guidance about developing their topics of choice. Last April, Science magazine awarded ScienceBuddies.org its Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). Said Hess, “During 2010, around 10 million... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Comings and Goings
accepted one, with a median base salary of about $100,000 and a median total compensation of $140,000 — an increase from last year’s figures of $93,300 and $115,000, respectively, when 77 percent had accepted a job by graduation. For more View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
bureaucratic difficulties in a country where laws were in flux, Frankenberg persisted in her vision to fill the new republic's information void. "Having total support from my investor made it possible," she says gratefully. Today, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
three areas to address in committee this year: Alumni continuing education for the new millennium Online services for alumni Positioning clubs for the next century Each of these committees has important implications for you as a graduate... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
information (street, telephone number, etc.), and batches of filled-in forms were sent to the keypunching center in the basement of Baker Library. Piles of keypunched cards (each somewhat smaller than a size 10 envelope) containing the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
play at home As the sport began to increasingly rely on the kind of data projections that drove his game, the Boston Red Sox brought on Tippett as a consultant in 2003, eventually promoting him to director of baseball information... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Clark; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
- August 2002
- Case
MassEnvelopePlus
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Brooke Bartletta and Michelle Heskett
Describes the challenges Steve Grossman, a fourth-generation owner of a small commercial printing company, must face amid industry consolidation, technological changes, and his own run for public office. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Family Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; Change Management; Information Technology; Personal Development and Career; Service Delivery; Service Industry; Massachusetts
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Brooke Bartletta, and Michelle Heskett. "MassEnvelopePlus." Harvard Business School Case 302-103, August 2002.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
a private media company and Karisimbi client. The group worked with Tele-10 to identify ways to improve its advertising sales process for radio advertising and to help improve customer service for its satellite television business. “We... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
traditional Indian greeting. It’s hard for Western observers to fathom, but EMRI’s 108 service is India’s first coordinated emergency response system, similar to the 911 system in the United States. At least for residents of Andhra... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail
By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
The share of e-commerce sales is rapidly increasing and so are the associated losses generated by website outages and slow websites. We leverage novel retail and website performance data to investigate the impact of website performance on online sales. This question is... View Details
Keywords: Online Retail; Quasi-experiments; Abandonment; Synthetic Control; Internet and the Web; Performance; Service Operations
Gallino, Santiago, Nil Karacaoglu, and Antonio Moreno. "Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail." Working Paper, October 2018.
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
“For the Romans, being an emperor is all about contradictions, because they’ve got to be wildly ambitious, almost a lunatic, but they also have to...consult their peers and carefully use every segment of Roman society.” What can MBAs learn from the Roman emperors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2011
- News
Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck
job, Morgan elaborated on that earlier comment. “Glenn Beck is enormously fascinating to me because he is undeniably a national brand,” she said. “He has a strong, multiplatform, devoted audience. It’s an audience that does not have as many View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
In the last few years, the landscape for online learning has changed dramatically. Using new and ever more powerful technologies, the market is shifting rapidly, with many dozens of organizations, aggregators, and educational institutions working to bring their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look
What’s Going on Here? Who, what, where, when, and why .we’d appreciate any information that will help us identify what’s going on in this photograph plucked from the archives of Baker Library. Please contact us at bulletin@hbs.edu, or HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
a whole set of new concerns. Who owns your data? If the algorithm has bad information about you, do you get to fix it? Does the regulator get to look at the algorithm? What if it leads to discrimination and creates disparate impact? If we... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Dec 2009
- News
Salman Khan, Math Master of the Internet
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Online Job Bank Debuts
bank’s listings include part-time work and temporary consulting assignments suitable for people at any career stage. The job bank plans to reach out to the Fortune 500 and other companies to inform them of its View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Nitin Nohria planned to step down as dean of Harvard Business School on June 30. But in March, as the University shifted to remote learning in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, President Lawrence Bacow asked Nohria to extend his term until December 31 to deal with... View Details
- May 2014
- Article
Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache
By: Shane Greenstein and Frank Nagle
Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Apache; Economic Measurement; Digital Economics; Measurement and Metrics; Open Source Distribution; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Economic Growth; Research and Development; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; United States
Greenstein, Shane, and Frank Nagle. "Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache." Research Policy 43, no. 4 (May 2014): 623–631. (Lead Article.)