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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
things like, ‘If you have a criminal record, you are welcome to apply for a job at Code for America.’ And we do advocacy, too, and help other organizations understand that they...
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- March 2005 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
To Trade or Not to Trade: NAFTA and the Prospects for Free Trade in the Americas
By: Lakshmi Iyer
Discusses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the United States, Canada, and Mexico, a decade after it came into force in 1994. Keeping in mind NAFTA's effect on jobs, exports, productivity, and economic growth, policy makers had to decide...
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Keywords:
History;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Performance Productivity;
Jobs and Positions;
Economic Growth;
Trade;
Foreign Direct Investment;
North and Central America
Iyer, Lakshmi. "To Trade or Not to Trade: NAFTA and the Prospects for Free Trade in the Americas." Harvard Business School Case 705-034, March 2005. (Revised November 2005.)
- 29 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
To New Beginnings: Reflecting on Transitioning Careers and Starting a Family while at HBS
chance to fulfill a lifelong dream. I had to take it. With the support of my chain of command, I decided to pursue my MBA, and I separated from the military in April of 2018. It was scary at the time to leave a View Details
- November–December 2023
- Article
Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets
By: Isamar Troncoso and Lan Luo
Profile pictures are a key component of many freelancing platforms, a design choice that can impact hiring and matching outcomes. In this paper, we examine how appearance-based perceptions of a freelancer’s fit for the job (i.e., whether a freelancer "looks the part"...
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Keywords:
Freelancers;
Gig Workers;
Demographics;
Prejudice and Bias;
Selection and Staffing;
Jobs and Positions;
Analytics and Data Science
Troncoso, Isamar, and Lan Luo. "Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets." Marketing Science 42, no. 6 (November–December 2023): 1080–1100.
- Web
Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Our role as stewards of the historical record and narrative places us in a unique position to choose the individuals and organizations that are remembered View Details
- June 2013
- Supplement
Elasto Therm: The Next Step (Video Supplement)
By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Elasto Therm: The Next Step (HBS Case #813030).
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurs;
Search;
Search Funds;
Manufacturing;
Pricing Policies;
Pricing;
Pricing Strategy;
Sales Channels;
Sales Force Management;
Customer Focus;
Customer Specificity;
Manufacturing Tools;
Acquisitions;
Growth Strategy;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Growth;
Plastics;
Turnarounds;
Labor Management;
Stockholders;
Careers;
Job Design;
Gender;
Life Planning;
Employee Empowerment;
Work/family Balance;
Work-life Balance;
Entrepreneurship;
Management;
Employee Ownership;
Acquisition;
Rubber Industry;
Auto Industry;
United States
Sharpe, Jim. "Elasto Therm: The Next Step (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 813-703, June 2013.
- Article
Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building customer profiles and looking for correlations in data. To create...
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Customer Relationship Management
Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan. "Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 9 (September 2016): 54–62.
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A5): Solaris 7: Rich Green on Product Strategy and Culture Change
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Solaris, Sun Microsystems' version of the UNIX operating system, was an amorphous collection of capabilities that had accumulated over the years, a product the company vaguely wished it could market and sell better. Developing and marketing Solaris 7 would help...
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It
Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv—the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity—all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer... View Details
- October 2008 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Apple's Core
By: Noam T. Wasserman
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are best friends who enjoy pulling pranks together and talking about electronics. After several small collaborations, Jobs pitches Wozniak on starting a company together to sell computers based on Wozniak's design for a personal computer....
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Equity;
Managerial Roles;
Partners and Partnerships;
Conflict Management
Wasserman, Noam T. "Apple's Core." Harvard Business School Case 809-063, October 2008. (Revised February 2011.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community
By: Jevin D. West, Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon and Carl T. Bergstrom
In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor® score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted to rank the scholarly output of authors, institutions, and countries based on author-level citation data. Using the methods described herein, we...
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Keywords:
Body of Literature;
Measurement and Metrics;
Networks;
Rank and Position;
Research;
Motivation and Incentives
West, Jevin D., Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon, and Carl T. Bergstrom. "Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-068, February 2012.
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
that you have reviewed employees at the same job band so there isn’t salary inequality around race and gender,” said Eliason. “Also consider who is being promoted within the organization View Details
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All Industries
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
roughly 35 percent of its more than one million users and its $45 million in gross merchandise sales. "The biggest challenge for us is increasing market penetration from 4 percent to 15 percent, where the Internet reaches a critical...
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Keywords:
Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna;
Latin America;
research;
infrastructure;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments;
Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
Design. With extensive background experience in digital content, most recently as executive vice president of product and technology at the New York Times, Kinsey Wilson, currently a visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center, had a...
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- 15 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path
while you are in school, or via study abroad). There are multiple ways to think about them: using a series of opportunities to build your skills and experience towards pivoting into a full-time job that is...
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- 03 Aug 2021
- News
Leading Maryland’s Only Black-Owned and -Managed Commercial Bank to Be a Pandemic Resource
The Baltimore Sun recently highlighted the work of John Lewis (MBA 2004), President and Chief Operating Officer of Harbor Bank of Maryland, which the newspaper notes became a vital pandemic-era resource for businesses looking to obtain...
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- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
the original buyout. In that case, they found that the total job loss (again, relative to similar firms) was 4.4 percent. A jolt of productivity On the positive side, they found that far from being stripped...
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- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do...
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- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
it’s ending a relationship, changing a job or transitioning from a household of kids to an empty nest. When it comes to our employment, we have our last day at an old job on a Friday View Details
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by Julia Austin