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- 01 Jun 2014
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Liberal Smarts
discipline teaching across all institutes. We are also "incubating" the concept of a Mahindra University, modeled after the US university system, with different schools teaching different disciplines—a school of public health, a business...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
Social enterprises are traditionally organized along one of two lines: The affiliation model favors decentralized control, while the branch model concentrates control at a central headquarters. In analyzing...
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Introduction Prelude to the Option Pricing Model The Formula The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models Selected...
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- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
biggest departure from the traditional banking model, where banks do the legwork on behalf of investors, and investors may have little or no information about loans—and in fact may not know which loans their money is supporting. “The lending View Details
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
course. ‘Nothing happens until a sale is made’ Nothing happens until a sale is made. That simple point underlines the critical importance of sales. Every operating model and business plan ‘assumes’ a certain amount of sales, but that...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
model that will predict how its competitors will react to changes in pricing. “I felt completely clueless,” he recalls in the case. The dynamics of the project team are equally demanding. Keller, who launched and ran a company in Cambodia...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Data-Driven Diligence
that sold them on Casper—it was the numbers. The company had tested well in a revolutionary predictive model built by the venture firm. The idea to vet possible investments in such a way hit Coats about a decade ago: Maybe, he figured, he...
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Francis Storrs
- June 2006 (Revised January 2007)
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e-Types A/S
A successful young design firm faces a difficult decision: whether to compromise its creative values to win a big job. The client brief is very conservative. The company is pretty sure it can win the design competition, but the design staff hates what they think they...
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Austin, Robert D., Shannon ODonnell, and Silje Kamille Friis. "e-Types A/S." Harvard Business School Case 606-118, June 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Panera Bread, the fast-growing bakery-café chain with over six hundred locations in mostly suburban markets across the United States. Panera’s ability to deliver high-quality food at reasonable prices in a...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
have a better chance of making it to the executive level than slower-moving colleagues. Although the data examined in Thomas and Gabarro's samples show that this model holds true for whites, it didn't work at all for people of color. Why?...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50571 February 2016 Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract— We develop a model...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007
partnership with CEOSS, a 50-year-old NGO, and through other local, community-based organizations. This network approach diverges form the traditional Habitat model of building houses through HFH's own affiliate organizations, but enables...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
evaluation of the ideas introduced to see if any of the business models could be applied to a different vertical. That allowed us to be exhaustive in our options and would also ensure that the best industry for the idea could be...
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William Durant
Beginning his career as a carriage and wagon manufacturer, Durant made the switch to automobile manufacturing in 1904 by reorganizing a failing Buick Motors. He believed that the key to success in the automobile industry was creating an organization that made a wide...
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Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Advocates claim that such a mechanism would level the playing field, whereas opponents argue that such a tariff is anti-competitive. This paper analyzes how carbon tariffs affect technology choice, regional competitiveness, and global emissions through a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Masculinities and the International Journal of Advertising, and his forthcoming book Refashioning Masculinity: Men and Fashion in the Digital Age will be published by the University of Chicago Press. Before his academic career, Ben founded the first View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
attention to strategy-driven forms of accountability that can help them to achieve their missions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-069.pdf Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2016
- News
Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS
founder of Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. Since founding the MMRF in 1998, Giusti has led the foundation in establishing innovative, collaborative research models in the areas of...
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Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1999
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Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy
How are the models of strategy that have been developed for business organizations being applied in the nonprofit world? What new strategy models are emerging that reflect the distinctive characteristics of...
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- 25 Apr 2016
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Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a...
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