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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
harder for breweries to fall into bailout loans, which happened to many teams last year, Casadesus-Masanell says. Enhanced graphics include waterfall charts for just about every metric imaginable on a team’s own brewery and its... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
be able to do computational prediction for creating a top 20 list of antisense oligos. With those, we can test them against his cell line. So as part of the biopsy, in phase one, we establish a cell line. What that is, is it’s taking... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
CHIP AND DAN HEATH: What makes messages memorable? Photo COURTESY THE HEATH FAMILY Everyone “knows” that strangers have tampered with children’s candy on Halloween. But actual examples of this are hard to come by. It is, however, an idea... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
What if it were possible to accurately predict and maybe even prevent the next global financial crisis? Harvard’s Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability (BFFS) Project,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to constrain price growth of existing drugs, cap seniors’ out-of-pocket drug spending, and eventually enable drug price negotiations, Dafny says. While “it's a little too soon to View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017
financial performance at a strategic level. It concludes with our financial forecast for fiscal 2018 and some thoughts on the longer-term outlook. Fiscal 2017 in Review The HBS economic model is unique among... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Anchorage where we talked not just about extractive resources but also about the Arctic’s vast renewables: hydro, wind, geothermal, and tidal. When the world is ready to use hydrogen, we’ll be the supplier. What about shipping? Most ice... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
time, researchers would be able to predict financial vulnerability. Enter the BFFS project, which focuses on five areas: regulation and monetary policy, measuring bubbles, extrapolation View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
desires, it doesn't have needs. It's basically taking in sensory data and trying to make a model of the world and make predictions and understand... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
platform. Advertisers used that data to create psychographic profiles of potential customers that went beyond mere demographics to give insights into what they like and value. Studies have found that with just 10 “likes” an algorithm can... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
commercial publishers. If you were one of those people with a crystal ball, what would you predict for the future of book publishing? MA: I see the demand for books, both in print and in digital formats,... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
“Baseball appeals to my entrepreneurial spirit because each season is a new season,” says DeWitt Jr. “It’s not like a normal business where you can make certain forecasts and expect to hit plan. Lots of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
that offers a $24 million prize pool for one tournament, bracketed levels of competition, and tournaments that yield almost $17 million in sponsorship revenue? These numbers aren’t referring to golf or tennis, but eSports. ESports... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
outcomes are now visible. The trajectory Afghanistan is now on pays too little attention to new enterprise and job creation and is predictably dismal. The alternative scenario... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog
distribution economics, and demand forecasting are explored in depth in SCM. SCM also differs from RC TOM in that RC TOM concentrates primarily on material and information... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
higher on average and variable profits increased by 9.6 percent, according to the study. The model also predicted that algorithmic competition resulted in a modest decline of .9 percent in quantity purchased... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
understand at which points you will receive feedback on progress. Can Leaders Anticipate Disaster? Planning for Surprises A company doesn't need a crystal ball to see impending disasters. Leaders can foresee and avoid View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable,... View Details