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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Dell, Inc Show Hide Details Concepts Valuation Multiples Problematic Methods Discounted Cash Flows Intricacies Mistakes Featured Exercises Calculate free cash flows, WACC, and terminal values Practice scenario analysis 6-7 hrs Module 6...
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
connections within an industry, and know how to steer a venture to a promising opportunity. On the other hand, a more diverse investor group might give founders more leeway in decision-making. In either case, founders should understand the pros and cons of each View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
like "shaker," "with," and "ship.") Moreover, participants in the intentional professional networking scenario tended toward cleansing words more than those in the intentional personal networking scenario. In the second experiment, held...
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by Carmen Nobel
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
innovation problem of your own choosing, or a provided scenario 6-7 hrs Module 3 Content Week - Ideate, Part 1: Tools for Generating Ideas Develop design principles to create user-focused ideas, experiment with ideation tools, and explore...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
incorporates monetary benefits that investors derive from holding riskless securities, Greenwood, Hanson, and Stein examine how a government should optimally determine the maturity structure of its debt. They explore the results of their model under multiple View Details
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
scenario where such a bundle was not offered. Total hardware sales were higher by approximately 100,000 units when bundles were offered. Much more surprising, the sales of software video games jumped by over a million units. The company...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2012
- Discussion Paper
Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades
By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s...
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Nomura, Koji, and Tomomichi Amano. "Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades." Discussion Paper, Keio Economic Observatory, 2012.
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
cost of evacuations or be wider to ensure every possible scenario is taken into account. In business, that could mean weighing the cost of not having enough stock to meet demand versus carrying excess stock. “That’s a tradeoff, and the...
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
Managing Emotions Featured Exercises Negotiation simulation (Discount and Hawkins: Crafting Terms and Conditions) Peer feedback 8-10 hrs Module 4 Negotiation Mastery: Forging Agreement within Groups and Organizations Apply themes and issues from the course to real life...
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- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
a family member doesn't know what his or her interests really are, a supportive family can encourage the family member to talk about possible scenarios and gradually uncover his or her true interests. This process requires patience and a...
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by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
example of the two strangers negotiating the sale of the lakeside cottage. What if the current owner is putting it up for sale because he has lost his job, while the businessman just happens to be Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg? Scenarios...
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by Katie Johnston
- 25 Feb 2015
- HBS Seminar
Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
familiar manifestation of excess capacity," he explains, "is when market demand falls below the level required to yield returns that will support current production capacity. This is the 'demand-reduction' scenario commonly associated...
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Garry Emmons
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn...
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- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
department. If every intern would receive an offer, 18 percent chose to work only with men. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/SEi2B3ULIyrEzqL6Rxbz][/div] The researchers invited 278 Black participants to consider the same scenario but...
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by Danielle Kost
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
III: Skillsets will shift As far as the doomsday scenario in which AI replaces everyone's jobs, I don't see that playing out anytime soon. As new technologies penetrate markets, they often change how organizations in those markets...
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Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
the class and determine on which students to call on. Buzz Groups Taking a few minutes for students to talk among themselves or practice a managerial scenario allows all students to participate and engage with class content. It can also...
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures - MBA
move from a board of directors to an advisory board) or, to the extent possible, encourage the student to take her or his course with or be supervised and graded by a different instructor. Faculty members in either scenario should take...
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- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
perceptions in a real-world scenario involving an anonymous Chinese company that operates in printing processes. The company, which Cai found while she was home in China on winter break, runs a tournament-style reward scheme for...
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- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
software code. In their working paper "Mixed Source," HBS associate professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and postdoctoral fellow Gaston Llanes consider scenarios in which theoretical software firms compete through different business models...
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