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- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
the default position that nonprofit organizations are accountable primarily to funders, simply because that's the money source. "Nonprofit leaders must prioritize among accountability demands—from foundations, government agencies,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
However, that’s not the reality of the enterprise world. Big enterprises by default are averse to change unless they are convinced the alternative is worth their business development effort and the time involved of the legal-finance team... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
the building gets built and (hopefully) leased. I have another case I am working on with HBS professor Dan Bergstresser on a real estate mortgage bank in Argentina that restructured itself during the country's recent collapse—the greatest View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
necessitating a value downgrade, compared with an industry average of 10 percent, according to the case. And because the cheese is aging under the bank's own roof, the bank is constantly aware of what the product is worth. If producers View Details
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
without considering whether it is the best platform for their product and/or whether they’ll be able to hire engineers who are skilled in .NET (or want to learn it) to build it at scale. I’ve also seen many startups default to the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
about each other’s expertise or knowledge. You’re not putting people into categories, and by default you end up being much more inclusive. So the students have fun, and then afterward we talk about which strategies unlocked more puzzles.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are effective and would appeal to... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
up in that question,” Wood acknowledges. “People feel judgment running in both directions: I might think you’re judging me a prude, and you might think I’m judging you as less virtuous.” If you’re a young woman in the workplace, moreover, “the View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
same time, I have also come to realize that these values can sometimes hinder one’s career progression. The American workplace is one that values loud voices, strong opinions, and making your contributions known. The default for many of... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
unlimited length of time. gpu This queue is available for both interactive and batch work, and must be specified in order to access GPUs on the compute node(s). In addition to specifying the queue itself, default or custom gpu usage... View Details
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News by country
How can I find today's news by country? Factiva: aggregates news from thousands of national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications and transcripts. Go to News Pages then choose country from drop down menu. the default is... View Details
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Email Signature | About
twitter.com/HarvardHBS she/her/hers (optional) Do: (all items and blank lines are optional) Use the same font as you are using for your message. ("Title, Department" line may appear in italic.) Use black. (Links may adopt the default... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Editor's note. Argentina is in the midst of a continuing saga regarding its 2002 default on its sovereign debt, a case that the US Supreme Court will decide soon. HBS finance professor Laura Alfaro, who served from 2010 to 2012 as... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55281 Fall 2018 Eighteenth-Century Studies Cosmopoleis: Empire and Capitalism By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55279 Issuer View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
era before unemployment soared, the Dow plummeted, and credit default swaps surfaced. In today's jargon, these owners are underwater—they owe more than the value of their homes. But underwater is a misnomer. People underwater either swim... View Details
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R and Python - Research Computing Services
including R 4.0.x (default) along with RStudio 1.3 (default). The default versions of R and RStudio are installed using the miniConda distribution and is available via wrapper scripts from the NoMachine GUI menus or terminal. These... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
relied on mortgage brokers to find the loans. The brokers made money when borrowers signed on the bottom line—regardless of the long-term prospects of owners' solvency. If the borrower defaulted, the broker bore no responsibility. The View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Parks Management is People Management
same way it would at a lean startup or a large corporation. The transferability of business practices, especially the need for agile thinkers in key management roles, is encouraging. I feel confident that I can utilize my MBA learnings in the land management space,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Betas
the ticker symbol (e.g., IBM) then click on "equity," type "beta," then click on GO. For historical averages, change the date range. To change the default index, change the mnemonic for index. Capital IQ Data on... View Details