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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Students Serve the Community
assistant professor Zeynep Ton, the initiative’s faculty adviser, told the Harbus. “We wanted our students to get to know the community around them, to develop both compassion and respect for that community, and to see service as part of leadership.” Conceived of View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
Courtesy Rahul Advani, Sara Graziano, Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1996, focused on the energy sector, he thought a future of accessible and affordable clean energy was a ways off. But as he... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment
By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian. "Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-106, May 2018.
- 20 May 2016
- News
The Most Creative People in Business 2016
Illustration by Peter Arkle for Fast Company Illustration by Peter Arkle for Fast Company Fast Company recently released its Most Creative People in Business 2016 list, and HBS alumni claim 5 of the 100... View Details
- 2015
- Chapter
Information Technology and the Distribution of Economic Activity
By: Shane Greenstein, Avi Goldfarb and Chris Forman
Greenstein, Shane, Avi Goldfarb, and Chris Forman. "Information Technology and the Distribution of Economic Activity." In The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, edited by Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Austin Club Provides Down-Home Hospitality
Jimmie Dale Gilmore. The event was sponsored by mTouring, Dell Computer, and the Texas Growth Fund. Pictured are Martin Payne (MBA 1999); Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Elyse Gilmore Yates, president of mTouring; Allegra Young (MBA 1995); and View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts to enhance performance and to change strategy. The operations literature has examined product liquidation, but retail store liquidation differs significantly. This paper augments... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
photo by Brandon Thibodeaux Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
F. Sharpe, Robert C. Merton, and Myron S. Scholes Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 2, edited by Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn. Pioneering Papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
elaborate a definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition builds on the analytical success of previous approaches while enabling the analysis of business models through the analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
by a few weeks — also at the students’ invitation — was Oscar-winning documentarian Charles Ferguson, director of Inside Job, an examination of the 2008 meltdown. With HBS professor Bharat Anand moderating, Ferguson screened and discussed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leadership Fellows
Hospital for Special Surgery; Ebele Mora, Year Up; and Karen Tang, Nonprofit Finance Fund. Not pictured: Chris Hurst, Mercy Corps, and Casey Littlefield, Social Finance. SUPPORTING SUCCESS: Fellowship donor Lou Fouts (MBA 1996) with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
ABBASI: With the participation of HBS alumni and Hollywood heavyweights, bringing climate change drama into US living rooms. Related Link Preview: Years of Living Dangerously (video) by Garry Emmons Last spring, when a Hawaiian... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs from the late 1990s and winnowed the lot down to three: Marla Malcolm Beck, Chris Michel, and Marc Cenedella. From their stories, he derived key lessons learned, often the hard way, as they built successful businesses,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Evolution in Entertainment: A Recap of the 2019 Entertainment & Media Conference
a featured panel focused on content creation. We were inspired (and very much entertained by their banters) by Chris Brancato (Creator of Narcos), View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the... View Details