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- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
address poverty and poverty-related social needs. Using a number of illustrative cases, we explore how variation of local institutional mechanisms shapes the local "face of poverty" in different communities and how this relates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
we could tap the wisdom of the crowd to help design them? When you start thinking about making cars this way, at some point you’ve ceased thinking about cars and started thinking about a modern alternative to mass production. People will... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
goes to education—about $800 million. Business people are also allocating a lot of private philanthropy money. JOSEPH FULLER Professor of Management Practice and Co-chair of HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project The funding mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
Susan Strasser contends. “They examined each other’s successes and failures and, in consort with an emerging advertising profession, began to articulate principles and design marketing programs.” 43 With so many similar goods flooding the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
fixing this gap. For 40 years, economists have drawn from the well of Utilitarian theory—which has the goal of maximizing overall well-being in society—to help design tax systems in the United States and around the world. Although the... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
the end, we were granted the opportunity to pitch live at COP as one of the finalists of the IRENA NewGen Accelerator Program. I also spoke on a panel about women’s entrepreneurship and participated in another pitching event organized by Monash University. Looking... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
space for their two-person team. Now LS is getting queries from $100 million mega brands. “These are companies that invest a lot in design to make their sites beautiful but they’re not functional in a meaningful way, and they want to know... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
dating platforms were designed by men, they are optimized for surfacing as many choices and pictures as possible,” she says. “My goal is not to get people to just browse hot photos and connect. My goal is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading-edge insights from some of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
allocation at a top-tier fund, they're going to go further down the food chain…so I think there's no equilibrating mechanism right now," Sahlman said. "Is that a problem?" "There's a lot of capital out there now... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate and laud those who are risk averse and self-indulgent View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In this paper we address the question of learning in a two-sided matching mechanism that utilizes the deferred acceptance algorithm. We consider a repeated matching game where at each period agents observe their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - HBS Online
Marketing Strategies 21 OCT 2024 | The Parlor Room Harvard Business School Professor Sunil Gupta joins host Chris Linnane to unpack data analytics' pivotal role in digital marketing and offers strategies for optimizing marketing efforts... View Details
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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
depending on your individual circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO website for full details... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
measured? How does India’s accountability rank against other countries? Does accountability affect economic and social performance? He examines the mechanisms that hold governance institutions accountable, explains why many governance... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
course will be reviewed for grading implications and/or other disciplinary action. On-Location While on location, students are required to participate fully in all scheduled immersion activities (in both the designated mode and content).... View Details