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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Steve Preston on how to upcycle career prospects Goodwill Industries International may be synonymous with thrifting but the 120-year-old nonprofit is a major provider of workforce development and skills training. President and CEO, Steve...
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- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity with a computationally light two-step estimator. Second,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
merchants that are patient or relatively unknown and for merchants with low marginal costs. Extensions to our model accommodate the possibilities of multiple voucher purchases and merchant price re-optimization. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
role of small entrepreneurs in the co-creation of the industry. Making extensive use of oral history, the article explores the role of tour companies in drawing affluent Western ecotourists to the country, and of the creators of ecolodges and other forms of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
project that will employ locals in a traditional handicraft business. The effort is centered in southeast Turkey, a region known for its production of high-quality Adiyaman carpets. By building a sustainable industrial and commercial base...
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- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
able to analyze the dataset to form views of how the security prices are likely to evolve relative to each other. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208118 Finding Information for Industry...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
bring? And am I building skills that can be used over a career? No longer do employees think that the skills they have today will last them a 30-year career. They know that the rate and pace of industry and technology changes. They're...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
online learning industry in 1998 when the internet was new, which just seems so long ago, and went to work for a little company that ran out of money. We sold it to a bigger company. I was the head of marketing at the bigger company. The...
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- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
consumers who have access to vouchers must generally be lower than those of consumers who do not have access to vouchers. Offering vouchers tends to be more profitable for firms that are patient or relatively unknown and for firms with low marginal costs. Extensions to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
advancement more difficult. A 2013 survey of HBS alumni explored this question in greater detail, finding that a majority of both men and women had made at least one accommodation to integrate their professional and family lives,...
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- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
developers. This article analyses the innovation processes of a set of leading design-driven companies in the furniture industry to identify how they develop product innovations. The empirical investigation is based on several case...
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Martha Lagace
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Governor Charlie Baker, and Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman; the afternoon also included a symposium on democracy, with a session on why competition in the politics industry is failing America, a panel discussion, and a fireside chat....
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has forced companies to rapidly advance their digital footprint, using cloud storage, cybersecurity, and device tools to accommodate their new remote workforce. Experiencing the benefits of remote working—including nonexistent commute...
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- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
framework for the estimation of expected returns across international markets. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54150 The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
distress about being regularly on the outside of the workforce looking in. And that’s a human condition that isn’t associated with any rational labor market.Kerr: Yeah, it’s tough. As you think about the industry space—you have...
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- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been applied at several levels of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions...
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- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping change across an View Details
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Health, Social Assistance