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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

capital. As a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow, students will be part of a select community through the Social Enterprise Initiative. Social Enterprise Fellows will: engage in a peer exchange network of students committed to social... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

real world events, on that end of the spectrum. Audiences exchange precious time off from long jobs to engage with entertainment. I feel the stories they turn to should inspire them, uplift them, and at least, do what the category name... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

(1871-1948) Wright were fascinated by the mystery of flight, and they built on the ideas of prominent earlier figures such as Octave Chanute (1832-1910), the French-born American who was influential in fostering the free exchange of ideas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

anxiety-provoking and inspiring. Regardless of the strategy used for selecting the opener, instructors should position the call as a challenging but fair opportunity for students to experience personal development and contribute to the section's collective learning.... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

Greenwood and Alex Cheema-Fox 2024 | Working Paper | Faculty Research We use monthly portfolio data from one of the world’s largest custodian banks, with over $40 trillion assets under custody, to study how global portfolio investors hedge foreign View Details
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Buyers, Sellers, Manufacturers in China’s Emerging Market around 1900

Ever since the economic reforms in the post-Mao period China’s economy as an emerging market has attracted much interest. However, we tend to forget that China was already an emerging market at the turn of the 19th century, if not earlier. This... View Details

  • 2020
  • Working Paper

To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness

By: Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Scott Duke Kominers and Ran I. Shorrer
Many economic-theoretic models incorporate finiteness assumptions that, while introduced for simplicity, play a real role in the analysis. Such assumptions introduce a conceptual problem, as results that rely on finiteness are often implicitly nonrobust; for example,... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Analysis; Game Theory
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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

models, or have limited budget to get work done. But you may earn high-value equity in exchange for lower-than-market-level pay. If you want to dig more into deciding which startup to join, I suggest Jeff Bussgang’s book Entering... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

determine a path forward. Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage in a new activity every three to five minutes and apply your knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and... View Details
  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

Summing Up This month's exchange of ideas regarding U.S. healthcare reform ranged far and wide. Some of us were interested primarily in the issue of cost escalation and how to contain it. Others addressed issues of quality. For still... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

1970s, but its governments systematically discouraged wholly owned FDI [foreign direct investment], and restricted it to a low level. During the 1940s and early 1950s only the U.S. dollar was available as a major convertible currency. Elsewhere View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Managing Remote Work Quality: Evidence from Auditing Management Systems Standards

By: Ashley Palmarozzo and Michael W. Toffel
Remote work has become more common, providing operational flexibility and productivity benefits, but questions remain about whether and how it affects work quality. We investigate the quality effects of remote work in a context in which remote work separates workers... View Details
Keywords: Audit; Auditing; Remote Work; Compliance; Assessment; Environment; Management Systems; Quality Management; Quality Management System; Quality; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Environmental Management; Safety
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  • November 2018
  • Article

Worthy of Swift Trust? How Brief Interpersonal Contact Affects Trust Accuracy

By: Oliver Schilke and Laura Huang
Organizational scholars have long underscored the positive consequences of trust, yet trust can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Interpersonal Communication; Judgments; Perspective
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  • January 2001 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Ford Motor Company's Value Enhancement Plan

By: Andre F. Perold
In April 2000, Ford Motor Co. announced a shareholder Value Enhancement Plan (VEP) to significantly recapitalize the firm's ownership structure. Ford had accumulated $23 billion in cash reserves and under the VEP would return as much as $10 billion of this cash to... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Structure; Cash; Financial Liquidity; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Auto Industry
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  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

classes left us energized, refreshed, stronger, and ready to take on anything,” Foley explained in Peloton’s 2019 registration filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But “we were often left without time, without options, and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Strategy; China
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details

Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Ownership; Performance Expectations; Economy; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Bloomberg: tickers

e.g., [EQUITY] for stocks) exchange (e.g., LN for London) dates (e.g., bond maturity; mm/dd/yy) To find a company ticker: Type company name, then hit HELP.  Select #2 (Companies) and then choose desired company from list. Type... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program

As we approach the 2+2 application deadline, we wanted to answer some of your most common questions about the 2+2 program. We hope this information is useful as you finalize your applications in the next few weeks! We also encourage you to download the 2+2 brochure,... View Details
  • 2012
  • Case

Qingdao TGOOD Electric Corporation

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Chen Hao and Hong Zhang
Founded in 2004, TGOOD is now the largest specialized developer and producer of cubicle-type transformation and distribution equipment in China, with the main products of outdoor cubicle-type power equipment supplemented by indoor switchgear cabinets, offered mainly to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resource Management; Strategy; China; China
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