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- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
that/ done that is also beneficial. At the end of the day, you’re going to find an internship. If you are skeptical and need further reassurance beyond my optimism, imagine the above meme in Oprah’s voice. Boston Winter After 9 months of staying here, I feel that the...
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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
that would more precisely predict the immediate availability of planes for combat. Quartermaster Advanced ROTC, 1942. HBS Archives Photograph Collection. Show caption Hide caption Building off the success of the wartime schools, HBS...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
for her innovative research and teaching on the business of health care, Herzlinger has long predicted the unraveling of managed care in the United States, along with the rise of consumer-driven health care and health-care-focused...
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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
employers for a mass exodus of employees in a post-pandemic world. The company predicts that 50 percent of organizations’ newly hired workers in 2020 will return to former positions when furloughs end. Syrg’s platform will help employers...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
door-to-door censuses across thousands of villages. Enter IDinsight, a nonprofit that helps international development organizations use data and evidence to realize their goals. IDinsight helped Educate Girls leverage available census, education, and outcome data for...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
When working professionals were shifting to home offices a year ago as COVID-19 was spreading, comedians and pundits predicted that people would no longer need bras and pants that aren’t stretchy. Instead customers would make room for...
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- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on performance is determined by both...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
for larger firms (which have access to bond markets), we confirm that this substitution has strong predictive power for lending volume by small and unrated firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-107.pdf Unfair...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months. We View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting the Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes beyond the wish to reap financial rewards from years of investment. Steve...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
A: We found that it was the relative percentage of their money that people spend on others—rather than the absolute amount—that predicted their happiness. In the bonus study described above, for example, the size of the bonus that people...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind
Approximately 80% of Europe’s current offshore wind capacity has passed through the port. As the world seeks to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, offshore wind is expected to play an increasingly important role in providing renewable energy. Experts View Details
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Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog
follows: Introduction to Generative AI Deep dive into the world of GenAI, understanding its fundamental principles and distinguishing it from other AI technologies. How are generative models different from other predictive AI techniques...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of success, and that Adam Smith’s...
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- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
that explores the mechanisms’ distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms—within-firm productivity improvement shifts the productivity distribution rightward, while selection and market reallocation shifts the revenue and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
managers who trade in foreign debt as well as for emerging market countries. "The cost of funds will go up," naysayers may cry. "We won't get any money; no one will invest in us." “If you lend to Argentina, you are dealing with Argentina” But I...
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by Laura Alfaro
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on...
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by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
convergence was really happening," Yoffie says. Long predicted but never realized, convergence is the idea that as the worlds of entertainment, computing, and communication go digital, they can be combined to create exciting new...
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- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
counter would result in a hefty fee. My research predicts that this system is likely to be seen as fair. First, there are no negative externalities; other passengers don't have to wait longer because someone else arrives late. Second, the...
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by Sean Silverthorne