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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
inspired by the war in Ukraine. Proceeds from the sale of those works totaled just under $150,000 and benefited Ukrainian aid organizations. A similar sense of kismet runs through the other branches of Hartley’s remarkable career: US Navy...
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Julia Hanna
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3%...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
lodging demand. "If other companies invest in building similar race-blind algorithms, that may even the playing field for users." The research results could also have broader implications for promoting racial equity at a wide range of...
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- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
practice. Think, for example, of the obstacles that lawyers and public relations advisers can put in the way of leaders wishing to practice such principles. Sucher and Gupta go on to say that, “How a leader earns trust is similar to how...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
When I started eight years ago looking into what was going on in certain industries, what came out initially was this idea that it was technology, right? We all talked about Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. But in many industries, both the disrupter and the...
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- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
ringside. “I just asked them to dim the lights a bit more, to put focus on the cage,” he says, eyes restlessly sweeping the venue. “It’s similar to creating the atmosphere of a rock concert.” In just a few minutes, ONE FC will be...
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- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
production could affect consumer purchase behavior. The researchers found: When a firm voluntarily discloses its costs, the consumer is more attracted to the brand, which increases willingness to buy. "There's this lay intuition that when...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
(Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In direct tests, SBPs dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
recognizing that feeling as something to pay attention to. At Wellesley, I had a similar intuitive experience when I switched majors from neuropsych to economics. That change was scary because it was late in...
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- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
smartphones for the masses to similar other innovative technologies for rural households." Heaven forbid, Kapil Kumar Sopory even suggested that the problem is us. "Each one (of us) has his limited priorities and remains content...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
count, patent count, and publication count, as well as their citations and the collaborative nature between funded and unfunded firms. Because randomization of the sample was not feasible, we address endogeneity around selection bias using a sample of qualitatively...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
Mumbai, Pune, Goa, and Bangalore. When the pandemic hit, White Owl went from monthly revenues of over 50 million INR to zero overnight as bars and stores shut down. In the first week, Murad estimates he spoke to 30 or 40 investors, mentors, and friends who were running...
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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
"The Immediate Response fleet is their fraud buster." A second Progressive service is called Comparison Quote, said Frei. If a potential customer logs on to the Web site, Progressive will give a quote for Progressive auto insurance as well as View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
there. The self-made entrepreneurs’ stories underline a complementary approach to driving business ventures—using intuition and life experience, instead of analyses and case studies. But they also share View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
multinational corporations, which more and more compete against other MNCs possessing similar size, access to resources, and market penetration. So what can be a source of competitive advantage? The ability to collaborate, share...
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by Working Knowledge editors
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
through case reading, case discussions, reading the textbook and having informal discussions with classmates, the more intuitive and clear the material became. At HBS, we learn finance and accounting through the case method just like...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
- Bloomberg L.P. Scott D. Cook - Intuit Thomas A. James - Raymond James Financial Sandra L. Kurtzig - E-Benefits READ MORE Gordon M. Binder - Amgen Michael R. Bloomberg - Bloomberg L.P. Scott D. Cook - View Details
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IFC: London; Entrepreneurship in the UK and Europe - Course Catalog
region is at historic highs, with more than USD$80B invested over the last 12 months. Accounting for 40% of all regional investment activity, London has clearly emerged as the pre-eminent focal point for UK and European entrepreneurial activity. Students will develop...
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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
This typology is similar to work on how industry membership influences companies. For example, regarding governmental factors, the city of Detroit created an Enterprise Zone to attract local inner-city corporate spending. Cleveland firms...
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by Sean Silverthorne