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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
field data and experiments to investigate these factors. The findings suggest that canary categories exist (at least in part) because store assortments are not completely adjusted to local preferences. An implication is that canary...
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- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
needs. The velocity or rate of adaption that firms need to adjust to a new directional reality will depend on customer demand. Industries with decreasing customer demand—offline entertainment, hospitality, real estate, industrial...
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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
Marketing, financial, or technical expertise Risk management experience + – Resume Tips Your resume should include a Summary section that highlights your attributes relevant to a board role, as opposed to a management role. The rest of...
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1.11 Leaves of Absence - MBA
of that agreement. Alleged criminal behavior. The student has been arrested on allegations of serious criminal behavior or has been charged with such behavior by law enforcement authorities. Risk to the community. The student has...
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- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of side effects, with the...
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Martha Lagace
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
stagnant. By 2007, declining home prices and rising rates on adjustable rate mortgages triggered a wave of foreclosures, causing devastation to millions of Americans. Firms like Lehman Brothers pursued an aggressive strategy of borrowing...
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- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
them." Alcácer advises companies to consider sending an advance team to live in a target locale to research the market and business models before expanding. Another problem with following competitors: an increasing risk that those...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
my life,” said RJ Melman, president of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and creator and developer of more than 13 restaurant concepts. “I know a good chunk of those people, this is a family business.” In 2012, the World Economic Forum published an assessment of...
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- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
Despite mandates requiring motorists to carry car insurance, 13 percent of US drivers operate vehicles without any coverage—a problem that exposes uninsured drivers to catastrophic financial risks and leads to higher premiums for insured...
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- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
is highly dependent on the chemistry, the experience each brings into the relationship, leadership styles and many other internal and external factors. While having cofounders can reduce business risk and/or bring complementary skills,...
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by Julia Austin
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
"computer-to-computer" communication. By the end of the decade, more than 60 percent of the computer communications will be computer-to-computer. Computer-to-computer vastly speeds up the pace of business. For example, end-to-end supply chains can be...
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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
too narrow, or underconfident. When combining probability forecasts, users need to adjust for those individual tendencies. Measuring accuracy and tracking performance are crucial to improving forecasts. Just as there are different methods...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
risk and the cost of equity (the beta anomaly): As firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. They find that...
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- 25 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!
acclimating to American culture and living in a new country, concerns related to speaking and writing in English as a second language and how to participate effectively in class discussions, and adjusting to the case-based pedagogy....
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Shaping the Learning Environment - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
encourages students to take risks in the class discussion, but is dismissive of comments that deviate from standard analysis, students will adjust their expectations, and the learning environment and student...
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- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
that the cost estimates are accurate (and perhaps conservative) given the complexity of the project and the short deadline. If the project manager is willing to make a concession, she might say: "This isn't easy for us, but we've made some View Details
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by Deepak Malhotra
- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
when adjustments are necessary. Surprise One: You Can't Run the Company Warning signs: You are in too many meetings and involved in too many tactical discussions. There are too many days when you feel as though you have lost control over...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
with a schedule and scope of future expenses, can equip the buyer with clearer expectations about a home’s total cost over time, Kennealey observes. “You may want to put down a big down payment, but if you know you have a new roof coming, then you might View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
think those people also run a tremendous risk of being left behind. Goldman has a big market share in Internet stocks, and we have tried our best to understand them, but some of this defies rational analysis! We're using valuation...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
each branch of the armed services must make. Army and Marine Corps officers operate in an inherently uncertain environment. They define the mission but then give subordinates the flexibility to adjust to realities on the ground. This...
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Sean Silverthorne