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5.1 Information Technology - MBA
HBS will not tolerate: electronic communication that is disruptive, obscene, harassing, defaming, or otherwise contributes to a hostile environment, the creation or use of an alias or any other mechanism to misrepresent or obfuscate one’s...
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- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
cassettes or digital content. My fear is that the growth of the industry is going to be limited by capacity. Gazette: Why do a few older technologies, like vinyl, fountain pens, and mechanical watches, enjoy a renaissance while most do...
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) - MBA
term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes. After that point, the course fee is non-refundable and any financial aid will be removed if the course is dropped. Students should refer to the GEO website (login required) for full...
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Events - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
2017 | European Stability Mechanism Cary Frydman 28 APR–03 MAY 2017 | USC Marshall School of Business Nick Chater 24–28 APR 2017 | Warwick Business School Xavier Vives 28 FEB 2017 | IESE Business School Antonio Falato 17 FEB–31 JUL 2017 |...
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- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
nuanced’ The impact of openness on supply chains will vary from sector to sector. “It’s so nuanced,” Greenstein says. “We found you have to be really persistent and precise when it comes to identifying (the impact) of openness. You have to understand the View Details
- 07 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
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by Malcolm S. Salter
- 08 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
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Research & Applications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
& Regions New tools and collaborative mechanisms can boost competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and new business growth at the microeconomic level. Inner Cities Revitalizing inner cities requires strengthening their competitive advantage,...
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- 03 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions
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by Paul A. Gompers & Yuhai Xuan
- April 2006
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Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company
By: Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels
When the Swedish Life Insurers Förenade Liv found themselves in difficulties in a rapidly changing market, their response was to call in the consultants. And one of the consultant's first suggestions was to use the Value Network, not the Value Chain, as a new...
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Competitive Advantage;
Fluctuation;
Networks;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Value;
Quality;
Decision Making;
Market Transactions;
Performance Effectiveness;
Customers;
Insurance Industry;
Sweden
Fjeldstad, Øystein D., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company." Long Range Planning 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 109–131.
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected...
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Managerial Roles;
Selection and Staffing;
Personal Characteristics;
Experience and Expertise;
Investment Activism;
Corporate Strategy
Khurana, Rakesh. Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this paper, we...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
negative. It remains so once we add an extensive set of further industry- and firm-level controls. Rising import exposure also reduces global employment, global sales, and global R&D expenditure at the firm level. It would appear that a simple View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
rush because important details can and will be lost in haste. Develop clear measures of achievement for each objective. Specify precisely what "performance" means. Enumerate an explicit formula to relate payment price to performance outcomes. Specify a View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than a million households; and water and electricity payments for a portion of the population. It also included a financing and guarantee mechanism that...
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- 01 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
grateful for was the opportunity to understand and live through a wide variety of circumstances. It built my empathy towards others and instilled in me a sense of gratitude for the small things in life. I went to MIT undergrad and studied View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for small entrepreneurs in developing...
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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
in installments is an ancient one. In 1641, when the Pilgrims consolidated the “heavy burthens” they owed London creditors, they arranged to pay their debts in four annual “estallments.” 18 But it was mechanization and the mass production...
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- 22 Feb 2023
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Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)
Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Prior to HBS, I worked as a process engineer for Procter & Gamble and then in engineering and business roles at an early-stage manufacturing data analytics company. I graduated from Duke University with a degree in View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
after a year and a half, companies have still only raised prices by around 2 percent, despite tariffs rising as high as 20 or 25 percent. “There are some mechanisms that retailers seem to be using to avoid increasing prices,” Cavallo...
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by Michael Blanding