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- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
stability. The authors have found that real improvement requires systemic change, not discrete fixes. They describe a five-step process for that—along with the diagnostic work you’ll need to do in advance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
invested in the rural areas based on the company's participation in the government-mandated "Connect Every Village" project, China Mobile took advantage of this foundation and created new products and value-added services in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
(but growing!) company, which means that every day is a new adventure. On the ‘typical’ side, there are the must-dos: order fulfillment, customer service, and paying the bills. Beyond that, on any given day we could be negotiating with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to make a living by getting... View Details
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
per your initial decision letter, and your current student loan debt. Note: you may not start a retroactive application now for first-year financial aid in order to participate in this program. See “Eligible Loans” section above for... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
value of building wider connections became even clearer on the afternoon of January 7 when conference delegates sat down after lunch in the ballroom of the harborside Grand Hyatt Hotel. Calling the brainstorming session to order was... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
risks—a process that can release more equity capacity. Finally, Merton argues, the job of managing the company's derivatives portfolio should not be delegated to in-house financial experts. The strategic importance of how a company... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
the points accumulated for a matching profile," says Trichakis. The end result: the allocation process "no longer meets the needs of the patients." So, despite the best efforts of those involved, the current transplant... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
forthcoming The Creativity Reader The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
application processing line, totaling nearly 600,000 observations of individuals completing work at a given step in the process. We find that productivity on the current task is most impacted by experience on the same day, but the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest expected processing time and batching similar cases. Choosing the shortest tasks first is particularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
A may prefer to accept lower future profits in order to interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she said, and ordered the mine closed,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
House version of the CHOICE Act were passed into law, an individual investor in Exxon Mobil would need to own at least $3.49 billion of stock in order to be permitted to submit a proposal for shareholder consideration, based on the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
designs for the key technologies required and had a working prototype, an understanding of the manufacturing processes to be used, and a list of the components required. They also had a design prototype that they had used to conduct... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
some PowerPoint slides—a process that Bill Burnham, a former CSFB Internet analyst, calls 'the competitive devaluation of underwriting standards.' But nowhere did the wall between research and banking fall so completely as in Quattrone's... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
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Program Policies - HBS Online
accommodations request process? Participants are responsible for disclosing the need for accommodations in each course by completing an Online Accommodations Request Form as early as possible. Individualized accommodations are then determined through a collaborative... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
that a decision maker may use in a multiattribute decision problem. In addition, it may be used to tailor the utility elicitation process to the comfort level of the decision maker. The new conditions, and the corresponding functional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
level provides important lessons for executives, policymakers, and the groups who benefit. But such knowledge also suggests more work to be done in order to learn how global business trends, such as industry consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne