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- December 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Generative AI and the Future of Work
By: Christopher Stanton and Matt Higgins
Generative AI seemed poised to reshape the world of work, including the higher-wage, white-collar jobs typically pursued by MBA graduates. Informed by the latest research, this case explores generative AI's potential impacts on work, productivity, value creation, and...
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Keywords:
AI;
Future Of Work;
Labor Market;
AI and Machine Learning;
Labor;
Value Creation;
Performance Productivity;
Technology Industry;
United States
Stanton, Christopher, and Matt Higgins. "Generative AI and the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 824-130, December 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- January 1995 (Revised July 1996)
- Background Note
Paving the Information Superhighway
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Geoffrey Bock and Janis Lee Gogan
Examines solutions to many of the information-sharing problems that limit growth of electronic commerce on the Internet. Serves as a basic primer for the use of electronic information exchange. While familiarizing the student with the basic tenets and terminology of...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Knowledge Sharing;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Geoffrey Bock, and Janis Lee Gogan. "Paving the Information Superhighway." Harvard Business School Background Note 195-202, January 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
- March 1986
- Article
Calculating the Market Value of Riskless Cash Flows
By: R. S. Ruback
Ruback, R. S. "Calculating the Market Value of Riskless Cash Flows." Journal of Financial Economics 15, no. 3 (March 1986): 323–339.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Corporate Website-based Measures of Firms' Value Drivers
By: Wei Cai, Dennis Campbell and Patrick Ferguson
We develop and validate new text-based measures of firms’ financial and non-financial value drivers. Using the Wayback Machine to access public US firms’ archived websites from 1995-2020, we scrape text from corporate homepages. We use Kaplan and Norton’s (1992)...
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Cai, Wei, Dennis Campbell, and Patrick Ferguson. "Corporate Website-based Measures of Firms' Value Drivers." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4413808, April 2023.
- November 2002 (Revised March 2007)
- Case
Keane's Acquisition of Metro Information Services (A)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
On August 21, 2001, Keane, Inc. announced the acquisition of Metro Information Services, Inc. This case analyzes the challenges facing firms and examines transactions whose major source of value creation hinges on intangible assets (e.g., people or knowledge).
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Value Creation;
Goodwill Accounting;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis. "Keane's Acquisition of Metro Information Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 103-042, November 2002. (Revised March 2007.)
- 2 Mar 2011
- Other Presentation
The Future of Corporate Citizenship: Creating Shared Value
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On Competition...
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Porter, Michael E. "The Future of Corporate Citizenship: Creating Shared Value." Celebrating Corporate Citizenship Forum, New York Stock Exchange, New York City, NY, March 2, 2011.
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
interview with Poets & Quants, Schwarzman talks about: The team-oriented culture at Blackstone: “We’re not looking for people who want to create more stress with people around them”; The View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Seth Klarman on the Critical Value of the Long View
In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Seth Klarman (MBA 1982), CEO of the Baupost Group, spoke about the perilous state View Details
- June 2024
- Module Note
Value Creation Potential of New Business Models
By: David J. Collis
A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or...
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- 20 Feb 2015
- News
How the sharing economy is changing the value of ownership
- January – February 2011
- Article
Creating Shared Value
By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to be prospering at the expense of their communities. Trust in business has fallen to new...
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Keywords:
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Economic Growth;
Economic Systems;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Trust;
Human Needs;
Welfare;
Competitive Advantage;
Value Creation
Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. "Creating Shared Value." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2011): 62–77.
- October 2008
- Article
The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management Earnings Forecasts
The 1990s were characterized by substantial increases in the performance of and investor reliance on financial analysts. Because managers possess superior private information and issue forecasts to align investors' expectations with their own, we predict that... View Details
Keywords:
Information;
Performance Expectations;
Earnings Management;
Financial Reporting;
Forecasting and Prediction
Baginski, Stephen P., John M. Hassell, and Michael D. Kimbrough. "The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management Earnings Forecasts." Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 31, no. 3 (October 2008): 311–330.
- 23 Oct 2013
2+2 Information Session: University of Pennsylvania
The information session is an opportunity for college and master degree students to learn more about the 2+2 application process to the MBA program and ask questions to an Admissions Board Member. The session will begin at 4:00 PM EST in Levine Hall Conference Room...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
Henry McCance (MBA 1966) As a student, Henry McCance (MBA 1966) thrived at HBS. “The combination of terrific students, inspirational faculty, and the case method made for a wonderful learning experience,”...
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- January 2019
- Teaching Plan
Blockchain and the Movement of Value in Africa
By: John D. Macomber
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 219-084.
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- 2006
- Other Paper
Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney
By: Ray Fisman, Julia Galef and Rakesh Khurana
- 26 Jan 2021
- Video
Operating Companies and the Value of an MBA
- 05 Dec 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
- November–December 2022
- Article
The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers
By: Ron Berman and Ayelet Israeli
Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we find an...
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Keywords:
Descriptive Analytics;
Big Data;
Synthetic Control;
E-commerce;
Online Retail;
Difference-in-differences;
Martech;
Internet and the Web;
Analytics and Data Science;
Performance;
Marketing;
Retail Industry
Berman, Ron, and Ayelet Israeli. "The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers." Marketing Science 41, no. 6 (November–December 2022): 1074–1096.
Value Shift
Today, corporate accountability is as vital to the bottom line as an effective business model. Value Shift makes a strong case for the merits of corporate responsibility and shows how a value-positive orientation contributes to superior performance through... View Details