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28 Mar 2019
News

California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

said in his speech, if we leave for a 9am meeting at 8:30am, and we know it will take us an hour to get there, we don’t think of ourselves as late until the clock hits 9am. This is how it is with climate change. We are already late, even... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs

which they post and track different versions of the same job listing, adjusting the language to gauge how and whether it affects who applies for the job. If your company might be a good fit for this line... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

and excited she was to move here all the way from South Africa. What has also helped with the adjustment as an international couple arriving at HBS, is that Azrah has been able to take advantage of all that... View Details

22 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions

Keywords: by David F. Drake; Manufacturing

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

enterprises as it is to startups. Gaining Speed Following Stevenson's return to HBS, two events in the early 1980s helped shape the study and scope of entrepreneurship at the School. The first, a 1983... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

14 Dec 2007
Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

speed from launch to maturity is faster than ever before. Marketers can do three things to delay the inevitable forces of commoditization. Innovate. A new product that better meets consumer needs, even an... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

30 Apr 2020
News

Five Key Insights on Leading Courageously During a Crisis

01 Sep 2021
News

Can We Train for Trust?

May 2000
Case

Intel 64 Fund

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

Laila Partridge of Intel's Corporate Business Development group has been charged to create a special investment fund to speed the adoption of a new chip architecture. The last architecture upgrade, from 16 to 32 bits, had needed almost a decade to become fully adopted.... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Management; Computer Industry

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

adjust those spans as if on sliders to make employees more effective.To understand what determines whether a job is designed for high performance, you must put yourself in the shoes of your organization's... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

leisure class passengers could adjust the amount of light coming in by rotating the inner window pane. Strong sales particularly in sunglass lenses and camera filters enabled the nascent corporation to fund... View Details

February 2005 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Liston Mechanics Corporation

By: Marc L. Bertoneche

Reviews, through a rather simple and straightforward situation, the various methods of valuation--free cash flow, weighted average cost of capital, equity cash flow, adjusted present value, multiples, etc. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Cost of Capital; Equity; Cash Flow; Value; Financial Management

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than exciting. "I've had people say to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Pet Doctors: 1999

By: Paul A. Gompers and David James Alexander Grant

Describes the decisions confronting David Hodges and Garret Turley about whether to grow their chain of veterinary clinics in the United Kingdom. Turley and Hodges must decide whether to attempt to speed up their acquisition pace and raise venture capital. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Venture Capital; Expansion; Acquisition; Service Industry; United Kingdom

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Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP | Baker Library

Help Center Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP How do I find a time series of stock prices using CRSP in WRDS? You can search for stock prices in CRSP in WRDS . Please note: CRSP stock prices are... View Details

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

recently a mere price "spike" in oil, we may be entering an era in which we have to adjust our thinking to prices that fluctuate around, say, $40 per barrel, a level long thought to be unsustainable even by OPEC, the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga is a small hedge fund that trades in mortgage-backed securities--securities created from pooled mortgage loans. They often appear as straightforward so-called "pass-throughs," but can also be pooled again to create collateral for a mortgage security known... View Details

Keywords: Debt Securities; Mortgages; Investment Funds

01 Jun 2004
News

There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad

Considering an international assignment? Working abroad can be a pivotal juncture in one’s career. Yet making a successful transition to another country isn’t just a question of adjusting to a new culture —... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; international; relocation; employment

18 Apr 2016
News

Embracing Agile

20 Jan 2011
News

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