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- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to...
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by Rachel Layne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in athletics and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
income, and Sen. Bernie Sanders has pushed for eliminating undergraduate tuition and fees at public colleges and universities. Di Maggio is careful to note that his team did not study the costs of any debt-relief proposal. But it’s clear...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Bizongo and e-B2B in India
By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Radhika Kak
Bizongo, an Indian e-B2B platform was co-founded by three college graduates in 2015 with the goal of creating the "Alibaba of India" when the B2B e-commerce landscape was practically non-existent. The founders saw a significant opportunity in connecting mid-sized...
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Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Digital Platforms;
E-commerce;
Business Strategy;
India
Rodríguez Arregui, Álvaro, and Radhika Kak. "Bizongo and e-B2B in India." Harvard Business School Case 824-100, October 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
forecasts as an input into the government budgeting-making process would probably reduce official forecast errors for budget deficits. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51324 College Tuition, Public...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
with Christian Catalini, a research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Alexander Oettl, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business. Over 200 startups under one roof The team drew...
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by Ben Rand
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. While these words seem similar in many respects, a key point of VUCA is that each of these terms describes a different situation that requires a specific response. Nathan Bennett, a professor with the Robinson View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-031413-091305?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life By: Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Work/life balance is at best an elusive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
hall from John, has studied the ways in which organizations hide information from consumers-sometimes duplicitously. In a previous paper about U.S. News & World Report college rankings of MBA programs, for example, he found a strong...
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by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
Worker Advancement,” a worker’s choice of company has considerable bearing on how fast they climb the ranks, how likely they are to land a better job elsewhere, and whether they’ll be hired and promoted. The study specifically looks at...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
different universities; in June 2019, the program expanded to six universities and 14 areas of study, including cybersecurity and computer science. Widely hailed in the press for the opportunity it offers workers to graduate from college...
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- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at the College of the Holy Cross,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
public education linking an employer, the New York City K-12 public education system, and the city's two-year colleges. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was a new concept, a six-year high school running to grade...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
be rejected." The results are enough to spook anyone who has ever sent off a résumé or college application: not only were the studies' subjects unable to counteract this correspondence bias, they remained susceptible to it even when...
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- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
three demographic measures of neighborhood change: percent of residents with a college degree; percent of residents between 25 and 34 years old; and percent of residents who were white. Changes in the business landscape were particularly...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
reasons behind the findings, the researchers conducted a similar experiment in the controlled environment of a university lab. They recruited 175 college students for a three-hour study, conducted over two consecutive days. The students...
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- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
complete an online survey that included questions about the frequency of their networking activity, and how it made them feel. For example, "When I engage in professional networking, I usually feel " was followed by a choice of several...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
Milkman, among others, the group settled on four areas of particular interest to nudge units in the United States and United Kingdom—retirement savings, college enrollment, public health interventions, and energy consumption. They then...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
very quickly ... It's really within that first year that they start to say, ‘This doesn't feel quite right.'" “It happens very quickly,” says Groysberg, reflecting on interviews with college students and young professionals conducted for...
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by Kristen Senz
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
to donate his or her body to Science Care (a for-profit entrepreneurial venture located in Arizona) or to the University of Arizona's College of Medicine. Why the donor might chose to select one program over another is an empirical...
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