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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog

optimal structuring, governance, and asset allocation with the principals of the newly-to-be-formed family office. Copyright © 2025 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. View Details

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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

of chronic disease, and understanding the limits of medical intervention. Module 2— Optimizing Care : This module will consider how health care systems can organize to deliver value by providing health more effectively and efficiently.... View Details

13 Feb 2024
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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

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

everybody. You’re ruining it for everybody. So you gotta go. Those principles apply in real life. You can do that online, too. It’s just that I think a lot of the dynamics of what’s been built today optimize for not that. Maybe View Details

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Anastassia Fedyk

am trying to better understand how psychological biases affect decision-making in organizations and financial markets. I have been long interested in optimal incentive design for employees subject to self-control problems. For example,... View Details

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Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

inspire and motivate their students. Ultimately, the optimal length and scope of the instructor closing for a specific class session will depend on such factors as the nature of the case and the learning objectives, the quality of the... View Details

20 Apr 2015
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India Conference 2015

a campaign had helped to create awareness in society and motivate people in creating a cleaner India. The sense of optimism among the members of the various technology and ecommerce panels was palpable. Mr. Rahul Narvekar, CEO... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis

Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Scholes. "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities." Journal of Political Economy 81 (May/June 1973): 637-654. Black, Fischer, and Myron S. Scholes. "The Valuation of Option Contracts and a Test of Market Efficiency." Journal of Finance 27 (May 1972): 399-418.... View Details

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Working PapersAn Optimal Lower Bound for Anonymous Scheduling Mechanisms Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, and Ron Lavi Abstract We consider the problem of designing truthful mechanisms to minimize the makespan on m unrelated... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology

smoothly by rationalizing and prioritizing the work that IT does. They are the behind-the-scenes enablers that empower HBS IT to operate with precision and agility, and assist teams across HBS IT to make informed decisions, streamline processes, and leverage the right... View Details

20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

prescriptive suggestions for candidates to approach job negotiations as a two-level game and to minimize disadvantageous effects of gender on job negotiation outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-095.pdf Optimal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

example, behavioral data can help sales teams optimize their outreach tactics. It could highlight bottlenecks in engineering, product development, and factory operations. “The idea here is that organizations can help employees use their... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

29 Aug 2024
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Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship

Technology Venture Immersion and Launch Lab I/II, guided me to achieve the proper mindset to start my own company. As I saw others fearlessly jump into their own ideas, I realized I really needed three key things to start a company: high levels of View Details

17 Aug 2021
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Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

governments to improve access to and uptake of malaria services in rural locations) to ensure they are agile and optimally positioned to help achieve and sustain malaria elimination. Why did you choose this internship for the summer?... View Details

15 Nov 2018
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Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"

Weekday mornings, in a discussion group composed of a math teacher, beauty product strategist, and a pro-athlete-turned-investor, I tackled over a hundred watershed corporate decisions, ranging from optimizing operations at a... View Details

17 Apr 2024
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New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

individual cow health and behavior, empowering farmers and providing peace of mind as they make better high-value livestock management decisions on breeding, disease, and feed programs. EnergAI - Aron Sass (MBA 2025), Balint Varga - EnergAI delivers an AI-powered... View Details

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Linda Leung

things.” After further work in the field with CBS Interactive, where she was responsible for the ad inventories of renowned sites such as CNET.com, ZDnet.com, and CBSnews.com, Linda decided the best way to move forward would be to pursue an MBA. “My past work was very... View Details

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

bearing greater risk. Investing in efficient markets means minimizing transaction costs and choosing maximally diversified portfolios that deliver an optimal tradeoff between risk and return. An inefficient market, by contrast, is one... View Details

22 Mar 2010
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One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact. Q: What are the chief impediments to strategy execution? A: The chief impediment is inertia. Over time, organizations tend to optimize the efficiency of their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

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