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Commencement 2015 Address | About
When I think about Perseverance, I recall the evening I spent at a student vigil last fall. It took place during the period of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of an African American teenager by a police officer. When I... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
accuracy of daily sales forecasts. We collaborated with an online apparel retailer to assemble a dataset that combines (1) detailed internal operational information, including data on sales, advertising, and promotions, as well as (2)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24
Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting standards and because... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
size of its stores), the decline of mall-based shopping, poor floor-level sales capabilities, lack of appeal to younger consumers, intensifying competition, and an overall dearth of future growth opportunities. This case allows students... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
that internal agglomerations have a positive impact on location. The effects of internal agglomerations vary by activity, and they arise both within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309090 Lan Airlines in 2008: Connecting the World to Latin America Harvard Business School Case 709-410 Lan Airlines operates three distinct models: low-cost for domestic short-haul flights, full-service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit the assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of classmates with prior entrepreneurial experience. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4
firm, which utilizes a large distributor base and depends on this individual distributor base to sell its products, giving explicit incentives for these individual distributors to both sell its products and sign up other distributors. The case gives View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
management, flawed internal and external accounting, low skill and/or low integrity people, and corrosive cultures. Piecemeal attempts to fix elements of corporate governance will fail. The problem, to illustrate, is not just the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
national and international art school. While in 1978 75 percent of the student body hailed from the Baltimore area, today 80 percent come from 45 states and 38 foreign countries, with only 20 percent from... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
two months. A team of faculty and students from five Harvard schools attended the Kumbh Mela to learn from the phenomenon. The festival was a planning, organizational, financial, and spiritual success-in stark contrast to the understood... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign-to-sovereign transactions. Specifically, we show (i) international capital flows net of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
use it. In the paper, Luca, Edward L. Glaeser and Scott Duke Kominers (PhDBE 2011) of Harvard University, and PhD student Nikhil Naik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, cite three trends that make cities particularly... View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
and international students were underperforming relative to their American male peers. As a result of a campuswide effort, HBS has closed that grade gap, a feat that drew applause in Burden Auditorium on... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
muckraker Lincoln Steffens as a personal hero and who confesses that his heart still quickens when he hears the songs of the International Brigade. At OPM, Navasky wrote later, “My Nation self still tended to regard the profit motive as... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
and international markets. With only 0.5% of the cocoa's world production, was it worth the effort to try and establish a country-of-origin image for Venezuelan chocolate? If so, how could El Rey go about it? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
relaxed way of life. And I was explaining my fascination with this part. So it starts like this. In 1989, a group of American students arrived for a study abroad year at Yunnan University in Kunming, where I was studying. They were from... View Details