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  • 16 Oct 2024
  • Video

A fireside chat with Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO at Harvard University

  • Web

Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

let everybody know that thanks to the generosity of a good friend, [INAUDIBLE], there are copies of their book that she's generously provided for everyone here. You'll find them on the way out. I want to thank Harvard Business School,... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

2012, as well as the “Generations and Gender Survey Core Questionnaire” in the Generations and Gender Programme from 2002 through 2013. All told, the two surveys of more than 100,000 men and women across 29 countries revealed how the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details
Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America
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  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

when they were not, for example. In the end, Sears faced charges of fraud filed by the state attorney general in each of more than 40 states. The new quota and compensation system apparently did not help Sears’ financial performance. In... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Article

Towards Robust and Reliable Algorithmic Recourse

By: Sohini Upadhyay, Shalmali Joshi and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision making (e.g., loan approvals), there has been growing interest in post-hoc techniques which provide recourse to affected individuals. These techniques generate recourses under the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning Models; Algorithmic Recourse; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • October 2019
  • Supplement

Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Transactions (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Impax Laboratories was a technology-based pharmaceutical company that used a “dual platform” strategy to sell both generic and branded treatments. While Impax had grown organically for most of its history, it was beginning to use major acquisitions for growth. In the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Financial Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • October 2019
  • Case

Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Acquisitions (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Impax Laboratories was a technology-based pharmaceutical company that used a “dual platform” strategy to sell both generic and branded treatments. While Impax had grown organically for most of its history, it was beginning to use major acquisitions for growth. In the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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Guilt Enhances the Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments

By: Maryam Kouchaki, Christopher Oveis and F. Gino
The present studies investigate the hypothesis that guilt influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism about risks for the self (Study 1), preferences... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Emotions
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  • 09 Apr 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Andrew Stephen, University of Pittsburgh

    Lynda M. Applegate

    Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

    • Web

    Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

    ssmith@mba2025.hbs.edu Tiana Clark tclark@mba2025.hbs.edu General Management & Operations Club Co-Presidents Jeff Chen jechen@mba2025.hbs.edu Akanksha Mishra amishra@mba2025.hbs.edu Isabella Anastassoff ianastassoff@mba2025.hbs.edu Club... View Details
    • Web

    1.5 Attendance - MBA

    1.18 FIELD Global Capstone 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School 1.24 Commencement 2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct 3.... View Details
    • Web

    Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship

    are encouraged to find internships with search funds and apply to the General Summer Fellows Joiner track. Rock Summer Fellows does not support an ETA pathway through the Founder track. Start-up joiners, please contact... View Details
    • August 2022
    • Case

    One Tiger Per Mountain: The He Family Office

    By: Lauren Cohen, Fei Wu and Grace Headinger
    Roy He, founder and majority shareholder of his family construction material production company, was preparing to pass down the family business through its first generational handover to his children. His decision would establish his familial legacy and set a precedent... View Details
    Keywords: Governance Structure; Family Business; Family Ownership; Strategic Planning; Family and Family Relationships; Leadership; Construction Industry; Canton (city, China); Canton (province, China); China
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    • March 2021
    • Article

    Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment

    By: Kris J. Ferreira and Joel Goh
    Assortment rotation—the retailing practice of changing the assortment of products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple... View Details
    Keywords: Assortment Optimization; Retailing; Imperfect Information; Sales; Strategy; Consumer Behavior
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    Distributionally Robust Optimization and Its Tractable Approximations

    By: Joel Goh and Melvyn Sim
    In this paper we focus on a linear optimization problem with uncertainties, having expectations in the objective and in the set of constraints. We present a modular framework to obtain an approximate solution to the problem that is distributionally robust and more... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Mathematical Methods; Operations
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    1.7 Grading - MBA

    FIELD Global Capstone 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School 1.24 Commencement 2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct 3.... View Details