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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of...
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Anna Secino
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well-hidden, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United States, a new View Details
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
also have a stake. Transportation affects health and safety. And all of us want to get somewhere, primarily for work. The biggest use of highways in America is work commuting. Even in a world going digital, we still need physical...
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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
retain those currently in it.”—Madeline Keulen (MBA 2019), vice president, Victress Capital Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, general trends on gender diversity were moving, slowly, in the right direction: In 2018, venture investment in companies with at least one...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
one woman founder hit a record $46.3 billion worldwide; that number, though still small compared to the approximately $85 billion that went to all male teams, is 15 times the amount invested in women-led companies in 2010. The latest...
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systems in health care organizations and how these systems operate to align behaviors, measure, and reward performance. Themes that are central to her interests include the...
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Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
F., “The Case System of Instruction in Business Management,” Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, June 1910, pp. 641-644. This is one of the earliest published descriptions of the case method at HBS. Lincoln Schaub would later be Assistant Dean...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more...
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April White
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Add the renewed growth of the US auto industry, which set all-time sales records in 2015 and helped Detroit’s unemployment rate drop to its lowest in 15 years; add the phenomenon that is Dan Gilbert, the billionaire businessman who made...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
stuff, a lot of recorded stuff. But we do a number of things to make it easy to learn the culture and to appreciate the culture. So, for example, we don’t use outside recruiters. The hiring manager takes a very personal approach to...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
jobs. The model helps businesses deal with economic uncertainty, and individuals handle non-work obligations. Kelly Services, the 75-year-old firm that is synonymous with temporary work, has filled many essential positions. It supplies epidemiologists to the National...
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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
(MBA 1979) and Bob Frankston presented their VisiCalc invention—the first-ever electronic spreadsheet—and was blown away. Having spent countless hours retabulating forecasts with a calculator, one equation at a time, she immediately saw...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
remains in unchartered territory. We’re two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, amid a worker shortage, and record numbers quitting their jobs. In the U.S., stubbornly high inflation and recent increases in pay have raised the specter of a...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
where no amount of money can guarantee the existence of a fair allocation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-053.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBetfair vs. UK Bookmakers Harvard Business School Case 709-417 Betting exchanges provide an View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
disaggregated "clusters" or "ecosystems" of firms has been widely recognized. But platforms and the systems in which they are embedded are very diverse. In particular, platforms may exist within firms as product lines,...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial...
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Martha Lagace