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- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
International ICST on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA 2011) held in New York, August 22-23, 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions covering topics such as school choice, markets for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
development projects, some with predictable sales results, others more risky. The former pay for the company's daily bread and butter and fund R&D on future blockbusters. Inverness Medical Innovations, for example, is following... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
general expectation that in a down economy many donors of necessity will be less generous just when demand for services from nonprofits will be on the upswing. As a result, several panelists predicted that many smaller nonprofits will... View Details
- Student-Profile
Do Yoon Kim
of this was theoretical work on the convergence of beliefs, wisdom of the crowds, and predicting collective action, but it was exciting theoretical work! This is what initially got me interested in networks of people, especially how... View Details
- Web
Marketing AI Guidelines | About
Marketing AI Guidelines Context Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a significant impact on the marketing discipline in several areas including content creation, image generation/modification, chatbots, marketing automation, personalization, View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e., better precision of across-firm information) than to changes in information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS adoption improves financial statement comparability, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President
SHIRAZI: Predicts that HBS graduates will hold top leadership positions in more than two dozen nations over the next thirty years. Saquib Shirazi (MBA ’95), CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, takes globetrotting in stride. A member... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
to making better predictions. As a component of a vast array of activities, enhanced prediction will have ripple effects throughout the economy. What new functions and business models will it create? What difficult questions will it force... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Within a week of launching a 90-day free trial, subscriptions grew by 3600%. In addition, the company accelerated the release of a new product, originally designed for classroom instructors and now geared to administrators. The recently debuted DreamBox View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
that use approaches like game theory will be able to better predict an attack and determine what we can do to avoid them in the first place. But A.I. will only be as good as the people who develop it. Is bulletproof security achievable in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
profits. In his first visit to HBS, Corzine spoke in January to a large Burden Hall audience about opportunities in, and the outlook for, the investment banking sector. He predicted good times ahead for the industry amid strong demand for... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
name, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. asia-pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Sophia Shing, MBA 1997 Founder Little Teacher mobile language learning canada HBS Club of Toronto Jennifer Lee Koss, MBA 2008 Co-founder and... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
learning to predict which candidates will do best in a particular position. The question is, how much should companies weight this information versus the more subjective impression gleaned from job interviews? “Essentially firms [are]... View Details
- May 1987 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.: Planning and Control System
By: Robert L. Simons
Detailed description of the planning and control systems in use at Johnson & Johnson. Focuses on the actions of managers in one subsidiary in revising budget targets. Illustrates intensive strategic planning and financial planning process in a large, decentralized... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Planning; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting Audits; Budgets and Budgeting; Business Strategy; Financial Management; Business or Company Management; Management Systems; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry
Simons, Robert L. "Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.: Planning and Control System." Harvard Business School Case 187-081, May 1987. (Revised February 2000.)
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
ratio and ROE. Applying the model to the cross-section of firms, we find that expected returns and expected profitability are highly persistent and time varying. Our fundamentals-implied estimates of expected returns across time horizons exhibit strong return View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
profits later" pitch. Dayton said venture money would flow once the business opportunities become apparent, but deals will be for hundreds of thousands of dollars, not millions. Predictions For Broadband: 2008 In another panel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
change does not intersect with peacebuilding. The realities are there We need to be more honest about what the likely impacts are going to be.” – Dr. Tegan Blaine, Director of Climate, Environment, and Conflict at the U.S. Institute of Peace A series of White Papers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia
Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the fastest-growing major economy within two years, HBS’s presence in this dynamic... View Details