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Cross-Registration Policies and FAQ - MBA
Post-Docs are welcome to audit MBA Elective Curriculum courses. Email the HBS faculty member to introduce yourself and to request permission to audit on a space-available basis. Assuming the faculty member has confirmed agreement,... View Details
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Europe - Global
scalable, proven solutions to overfishing, ocean pollution, and climate change. Its investments were approved by an expert impact committee, and the fund’s carried interest depended on it meeting impact targets that were confirmed by its... View Details
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
the role that your product might fill in the future. If you were coming up with a new restaurant reservation system, this may involve a phone conversation with the party needing a reservation and having you do the actual booking for them, perhaps even texting them to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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Finance - Faculty & Research
portfolios over the past 25 years. The data allow us to match asset positions with their corresponding foreign exchange forward positions. We present five findings: 1) We confirm the oft-conjectured hypothesis that fixed income investors... View Details
- Profile
Fatima Albassam
to defend in front of very smart people. With the extra input you get from them, you either confirm your decision or pivot.” “It’s much more demanding, in terms of schoolwork, than other programs,” Fatima says. “Participation is fifty... View Details
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Propose an Independent Project - MBA
the opportunity. A team will then find a faculty advisor, confirm participation directly with the organization, and register for credit. If you wish to proactively promote an independent project to relevant students, you may forward the... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Time and the Value of Data
By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti
Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value
Valavi, Ehsan, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani, and Marco Iansiti. "Time and the Value of Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-016, August 2020. (Revised November 2021.)
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
told by one group, but also going back and having confirmative conversations with others. Others will go a few layers below the senior management team and engage middle-management, who are often willing to be absolutely candid and have a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
over small changes in their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful exits. On the... View Details
- Research Summary
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages (with Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek)
By: Laura Alfaro
The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the
existence of positive productivity externalities in the host country
generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a novel
mechanism, which emphasizes the role of local financial markets in
enabling... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
venture-stage companies that offered scalable, proven solutions to overfishing, ocean pollution, and climate change. Its investments were approved by an expert impact committee, and the fund’s carried interest depended on it meeting impact targets that were View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
Comparison of Costco to Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club,” Academy of Management Perspectives, August 2006. David Glass, in a comment confirmed by email on April 10, 2002. James L. Heskett, Earl W. Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, What... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
research confirms observations that women start more companies than men, but rarely grow them as large. Based on his earlier research, these results also resonated with Tim Butler: “When it comes to self-rating on finance skills, women... View Details
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni
Deutsche Bank Please make sure to mention your name and address to receive a tax-deductible confirmation letter. For questions, please contact: Stefan Eishold (MBA 1994) Tel: 49 163 611 5000 Email: eishold@arcuscapital.de INDIA The... View Details
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Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship
Determine/confirm loan eligibility: Before completing the application, email the Financial Aid office at loanassistance@hbs.edu to confirm your financial eligibility and provide permission to share your eligibility calculation with the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
structural estimation methods. Our results confirm the belief expressed by industry experts that in the fast-food drive-thru industry, customers trade off price and waiting time. More interestingly, our estimates indicate that consumers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Payout Policy
- October 2007
- Article
The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital
By: Michael D. Kimbrough
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
McCool opened his remarks by confirming people's fears that the first quarter results had fallen far below plan. But he continued in an unexpected way: From what I can see, we had a good quarter even though financial results were... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne