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24 Apr 2014
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A World of Reading

partnership with USAID and private funders, and is now in Kenya, Tanzania, and six other sub-Saharan African countries, where it makes thousands of books available via download to Africa’s cell-phone network. “All View Details

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

a higher-ambition company if we didn't have higher-ambition leaders?” Many people weren't cut out for the job. In the first three years, 300 of the top 350 leaders at the company exited. Conant focused on making those who stayed and were... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

2012
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The Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen and Pavel Zhelyazkov

This paper unpacks two underspecified facets of collaboration: cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have... View Details

Keywords: Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks; Cooperation

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01 Jun 2009
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The Power of Prayer

These days, getting money and housing together is a tricky issue. So there was good news from Florida, one of the hardest hit real-estate markets, when the Miami-area chapter of the Collective Banking Group... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

12 Jun 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

Keywords: by Anette Mikes

Mar 2020
Conference Presentation

A New Analysis of Differential Privacy's Generalization Guarantees

By: Christopher Jung, Katrina Ligett, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi and Moshe Shenfeld

We give a new proof of the "transfer theorem" underlying adaptive data analysis: that any mechanism for answering adaptively chosen statistical queries that is differentially private and sample-accurate is also accurate out-of-sample. Our new proof is elementary and... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Transfer Theorem; Mathematical Methods

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01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

quality of the organization that is presenting the Games to the world." In January, ACOG announced that it had revenues and commitments equal to 90 percent of its budget... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2013
News

The Joy of Spending

a good wait, because we got really excited about it. Now that we can watch them all the time, we lose the excitement of anticipation." Buy Time Norton suggests resisting the siren call of the big house in... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

30 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The Life and Role of a CEO

enough; for any decision to work, CEOs need to have built trust with their internal and external stakeholders in advance of important decisions and show continued commitment after the decisions are made. I... View Details

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022

It's been quite a year for HBS students, and as 2022 comes to a close we wanted to share some of the highlights from the MBA Voices Blog. ANSWERS TO YOUR TOP QUESTIONS ABOUT FINANCIAL AID AT HBS At HBS, we are View Details

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Lemmens and Sunil Gupta provides a novel method for determining which customers to target in order to maximize the profit of a retention campaign. The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

chain. Tony is an up-and-coming leader with bright prospects. Then Tony makes two extraordinary decisions. First, he commits a serious but brilliantly undetectable crime. Next, despite the advice and pleas View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

women’s health in the United States, which has the worst rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation. Women of color are four times more likely to die in the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

15 Oct 2019
News

In Pursuit of Academia

financial opportunity cost, left me with no doubt about my commitment to a career in academia,” she recalls. Drawing on her insights from the MBA classroom, Fernandes conducted doctoral research examining the impact View Details

19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details

03 Nov 2008
HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

their corn commitments to the plant, and some have even invested in a competing interest. Another alternative is to sell the plant, although Utlaut believes that the best offer would be the book value, roughly $50 million. The third... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy

20 Jan 2022
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Vault: How to be a Moral Leader: Sandra Sucher Reads The Making of the Atomic Bomb

01 Sep 2014
News

The Changing Nature of Research

the globe. As a leader in management education, Harvard Business School has a strong commitment to improving the practice of management and to advancing a world that is more sustainable and inclusive,... View Details

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