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Social Strategies That Work
Over a billion people use social platforms on the Internet, making them the most frequently visited category of sites. Some platforms, such as eHarmony, MeetUp, and Twitter, allow us to connect to strangers. eHarmony alone is estimated to account for one in six new...
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- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
implications of such two-sided competition on the actions and source of profits of media firms. One main conclusion we reach is that media firms may charge higher content prices in a duopoly than in a monopoly. This happens because competition for advertisers can...
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Martha Lagace
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3.4 Tuition & Fees - MBA
Absence, & Return of Federal/Title IV Funding 3.6 VA Benefits 3.7 Financial Aid Fraud 3.8 Health Insurance 3.9 Annual Notice: Higher Education Opportunity Act 4. General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies 6....
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Program Policies - HBS Online
Policy for extreme life events will not receive a refund of their term fee. If you elect to drop the first term of the program, you must reapply before reenrolling. For all other terms, you may return to the program when the relevant term...
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- 20 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Sell Side School Ties
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas
We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework to motivate the...
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Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas. "The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-063, January 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
- July 2010
- Other Article
Clusters and Entrepreneurship
By: Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
This article examines the role of regional clusters in regional entrepreneurship. We focus on the distinct influences of convergence and agglomeration on growth in the number of start-up firms as well as in employment in these new firms in a given region-industry....
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Economics
Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern. "Clusters and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Economic Geography 10, no. 4 (July 2010): 495–518. (U.S. Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper, No. CES-WP-10-31.)
- September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Supplement
The Future of Iraq Project (B)
By: Noel Maurer and Sogomon Tarontsi
The first round of bidding on the rights to develop Iraq's oil field did not go as planned. All the bidding groups wanted to charge a fee per barrel that the Iraqi government considered too high. As a result, the Iraqi government conducted the auction a second time,...
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Non-Renewable Energy;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Contracts;
Auctions;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry;
Iraq
Maurer, Noel, and Sogomon Tarontsi. "The Future of Iraq Project (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-016, September 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 01 Apr 2015
- News
Sustainability Reporting: The Lawyer’s Response
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
been practicing connective behaviors for only a short time, they can become recidivists because of that long history. Be vigilant against returning to old habits. 5. Have the “best ears in the company.” Here’s a story that explains this...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
States from Seoul at age 12 and returns to his home country in his late 20s, MBA in hand, to help underwrite the sovereign bond offering that will save South Korea from financial ruin. It’s a novel of many elements, somehow managing to...
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OPM Renew
Points on completion of this program. Learning and Living at HBS You'll return to the HBS campus, where every aspect of the experience has been carefully designed to foster your learning, comfort, and engagement with faculty and fellow...
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- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
programs for employees whatsoever, so employers need to catch up,” Whillans says. Companies with strong recognition programs enjoy increased productivity, lower job turnover, and greater returns on investment than other companies in the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
But tech will never tell the whole story of one’s family history, says Mike Feerick (MBA 1993), founder of the nonprofit Ireland Reaching Out. As founder and CEO of Alison, an e-learning company, Feerick seems to be an unexpected proponent for a View Details
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
showing the three tiers. Tier 1: Health status achieved or retained. Survival Degree of Health or Recovery Tier 2: Process of Recovery Time for recovery and Time to Return to Other Activities Disutility of Care or Treatment Process (e.g.,...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
efforts and occasional spurts of good financial performance, the company's returns to shareholders remained low and well below the cost of capital. Over an extended period of time, Scott Paper had managed to destroy wealth. This was...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
short run and perseverance is rewarded.” Returns and attractive exits are higher for startups formed during these periods in history. Overall, I emphasize that students need to be patient. Good jobs are out there to be had. All it takes...
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by Rachel Layne
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022
Will They Ever Return to Normal? Research by Alberto Cavallo probes the complex interplay of product shortages, prices, and inflation. Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK Managers who let down their guard and...
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by Danielle Kost
- 08 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Decoding Inside Information
- July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,...
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Buildings and Facilities;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Construction;
Geographic Location;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Housing;
Leadership Style;
Management Succession;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
Family and Family Relationships;
Urban Development;
Customization and Personalization;
Real Estate Industry;
Maharashtra;
India;
United States
Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 621-018, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)