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  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

visit we learned that the volatility of the input prices can have a profound impact on renewable energy production. The price of the biomass sourced to produce fast pyrolysis bio-oil fluctuates greatly. In fact, since BTG Bioliquids first View Details
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst compensation being View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

Multi-Sourcing at Adidas This case describes the design and implementation of an IT-multi-sourcing strategy at a large global sportswear company, the adidas Group, which is headquartered in Germany. To help increase the benefits and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

platform to outside developers, Facebook’s success had been based on an open exchange between users, designers of apps posted on the site, and particularly advertisers making use of user information to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

develop a body of knowledge and theory comparable to those of the true professions, management differs from these other occupations in lacking a set of institutions designed to certify that its practitioners have a basic mastery of a core... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Publication:Research Policy 41, no. 8 (October 2012) Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Courses on our course platform are designed to work on an internet-connected desktop or notebook computer running either the Chrome or Firefox browser. Tablet computers and smartphones are not supported for programs on the course platform... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

Few business leaders would deny the importance of organizational loyalty; perhaps fewer still believe they can achieve it the way they once did. After all, the lifetime contract expired long ago, and your people—especially your best... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

issues of econometric and scientific uncertainty. As a result, the basis for the broader legitimacy of the WTO is shifting from questions of representation that have long drawn attention to epistemic issues, especially concerning the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

editorial section of the HBP website features motivational lessons and practical insights on a range of topics. Revenue from Corporate Learning declined 7 percent from the prior year. As a result of COVID-19, many corporate clients delayed the launch of View Details
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

Alternative Asset Management's (BAAM) growth from 2007 to 2013, a time when the overall fund of hedge funds industry contracted substantially. Additionally, the case analyzes evolving business models and value propositions within the fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

accrue) interest due on its unsecured debt after the filing date. The upshot of all this is that Chapter 11 is designed to give distressed companies access to significant amounts of cash when it is most needed. It buys them valuable time... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

As economies reopen after forced shutdowns caused by COVID-19, managers around the world are faced with a dual challenge: keep the workforce safe while preserving business viability in an evolving and volatile market. How should businesses start to View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • Web

Harvard Business School

COGME was a consortium of ten leading business schools, including Harvard and MIT, designed to recruit outstanding minority students and provide them with financial aid and jobs after graduation. Nearly 2,000 minority students benefited... View Details
  • January 2021
  • Article

Chain Stability in Trading Networks

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
We show that in general trading networks with bilateral contracts, a suitably adapted chain stability concept (Ostrovsky, 2008) is equivalent to stability (Hatfield and Kominers, 2012; Hatfield et al., 2013) if all agents' preferences are fully substitutable and... View Details
Keywords: Matching; Trading Networks; Chain Stability; Stability; Competitive Equilibria; Full Substitutability; Laws Of Aggregate Supply And Demand; Contracts; Market Design; Balance and Stability
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Understanding how trust impacts delivering superior performance

relational contracts—a practice its rival Toyota successfully deployed—which are essential to all modern design and manufacturing. A focus on relational contracts could lead to superior performance. “Public... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Trust Me

might attribute the cooperation to the existence of the contract. This will inhibit the development of trust.” In an experiment where subjects interfaced with a computer program that Malhotra and Murnighan designed to test trust, the pair... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • November–December 2014
  • Article

Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization

By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records can track who clicked what ad—and often who saw what ad—to compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Fraud; Optimization; Incentives; Digital Marketing; Contracts; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Design
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  • May 2013
  • Article

Guidance from ARIN on Legal Aspects of the Transfer of Internet Protocol Numbers

By: Benjamin Edelman and Stephen Ryan
Every device connected to the global Internet needs a numeric identifier, an "Internet Protocol" address ("IP address"). The Internet's continued growth presents a challenge: most IP addresses have already been assigned to networks and organizations, leaving few left... View Details
Keywords: IP Addresses; Regulation; Market Design; Market Transactions; Rights; Contracts; Internet; Technology Adoption; Technology Networks
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  • 09 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 9

  Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne