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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
employee base progressed in terms of the skills that they’ve developed over time, and how do the skills that they possess in key fields that you’ve identified—whether it be in finance or machine learning or in data management—how do those...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Mawilmada’s roommate. “As a kid, I’d get a steady dose of, ‘You need to start thinking beyond yourself. There’s so much you can do in terms of impacting society.’ As a result, I actually did grow up thinking that, and felt it was my...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
from everything—invoice processing to core banking systems to credit card reconciliations, all sorts of manual tasks. A lot of compliance tasks they are doing. But also we have modern companies—Pandora or Spotify, Uber, CrowdStrike—that...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
classroom, so I took a semester off. What advice do you have for others thinking about starting a family? This is advice from one of my favorite professors at HBS: Don't take too much credit or too much blame for parenting. I parent very...
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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
to supply beef markets around the world, but it faced a perfect storm of rising feed and fuel prices, a global credit crisis, and industry analysts skeptical about the company's debt load. Purchase the case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in...
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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
hierarchical organizing and identifies three categories of research: post-bureaucratic organizations, humanistic management, and organizational democracy. Despite this extensive prior work, scholarly understanding of radical decentralization remains limited. Using the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
members of society to meet their needs and wants. This account is contrasted with prevailing accounts in scholarly literature (e.g., shareholder primacy and stakeholder theory) that frame corporate purpose and responsibility in terms of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
within three years it had four million active customers. This success prompted line-of-business managers to request that Jen and Doug include more functionality in the bank's mobile app that was specific to its businesses, such as credit...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
http://hbr.org/product/Whole-Foods--the-Path-to-/an/615019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-001 Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode rather than swipe a credit...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
terms of the strokes or putts gained per round relative to the field. Using this metric, we can determine what portion of a player's overall performance is due to advantage (or loss) gained through putting, and conversely, what portion of...
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- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
and Collateralized Lending Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
is a no-brainer in terms of quality of life and money saved over the time your children are in school. I know it’s not easy to do, but spend time researching and if necessary downgrade jobs or move to a different school—you will not...
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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
teams tend to develop products with more modular architectures. Furthermore, the differences between systems are substantial—the pairs we examine vary by a factor of eight, in terms of the potential for a design change to propagate to...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political and business leaders in View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
grading and attendance requirements— which had been affected by the tragedy— would be reimposed. "As a community, we are still struggling to come to terms with the impact the tragedies have had, and will continue to have, on our lives,"...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
term and long term trade-offs. Christina Feller (MBA 1982), principal, Heritage Health Consulting & Publishing, Portland, Maine Leaders are open to change. But the basics still apply: Leaders move people...
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