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18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2000
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Books

clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis (integrating profit planning,... View Details

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

the real insight from our analysis was that this differential is minor relative to the differential when we look at the level of financing activities of the covered firms. Q: You make the point in your research that "the figures... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Business of Sports

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October 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Supplement

PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion

By: Ayelet Israeli and Fabrizio Fantini

PittaRosso, a traditional Italian shoe retailer, is implementing an AI system to provide pricing and promotion recommendations. The system allows them to implement changes that would affect both the top of funnel and bottom of funnel activities for the company: once... View Details

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Jan 2012
Survey

Prosperity at Risk

As part of the U.S. Competitiveness Project, Harvard Business School asked its alumni to complete an in-depth survey on U.S. competitiveness. Nearly 10,000 business leaders responded worldwide, resulting in a first-of-its-kind analysis of... View Details

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EMARKETER | Baker Library

EMARKETER Market data, statistics, and analysis on the internet, e-business, and emerging technologies. Read More EMARKETER is useful for understanding the growth and impact of the internet as well as for keeping up with new trends, such... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

structure of institutional banking.” 5 4 Papal Bull “Inter Multiplices,” Roman Catholic Church, Bullarum, privilegiorum ac diplomatum Romanorum Pontificum, collectio C. Cocquelines , 14 vols. (Rome, 1733-48) 3: 408-409. 5 John T. Noonan, The Scholastic View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Lessons from Private Equity

specific and focused version of the following question: ‘If I put a dollar into this capital project, am I going to get three dollars back out?’ Public company managers who apply the same analysis with working capital and cash... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

14 Feb 2018
News

A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace

motivated to search for novel information and anticipate alternative perspectives, leading to better decision making, problem solving and innovation. Time and again, analysis confirms this improves the bottom line of companies. “Working... View Details

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Natalie Margulies | MBA

Research Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business I spent the past two summers working as a data scientist on Facebook’s Product Foundation Data team. My time at Facebook showed me the immense power of data View Details

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Wendi Zhang

development policies and analysis in the public sector. Wendi attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received Bachelor of Science degrees in both Mathematics and Management Science, along with minors in Economics... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Angel Investing; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Real Estate; Social Enterprise; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

01 Mar 2005
News

Robert Buzzell Remembered

Buzzell Photo Courtesy HBS Communications An expert in strategic marketing, Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, died last November in Virginia. He was 71. Buzzell was perhaps best known for his role in the formulation and View Details

August 2019
Case

Bark Gift Shop Ltd.

By: Susanna Gallani, Jan Bouwens and Peter Kroos

This case describes a setting in which the CFO of Bark Gift Shop Ltd., a gift items retailer, discovers an undesired pattern in the performance data suggesting that her shop managers that perform well during the first part of the year, purposely reduce their effort in... View Details

Keywords: Data Analytics; Employees; Behavior; Performance; Management; Goals and Objectives; Motivation and Incentives; Analysis

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12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 12 May 2016
Webinars: Career

Adding Resilience to Your Career Toolkit

How can we handle adversity in our lives, whether it is the day-to-day stressors we face or major turbulence that hits us periodically? According to Professor Joshua Margolis, it is possible to build resilience by taking charge of how one both thinks about and reacts... View Details

25 Jun 2018
Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

equity with Berkshire Partners, Aaron came to HBS “to gain an understanding of how businesses function from a perspective beyond the financial analysis and business due diligence lens.” But during his time at Morgan Stanley and Berkshire,... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Affordable housing resources

also good resources for data and reports on housing and construction. Disability.gov Affordable Housing Research & Statistics Federal Housing Finance Agency Research and Analysis U.S. Census Bureau Guide to Construction... View Details

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John Safer Search 1983 | About

Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has described how the work was “inspired by [Safer’s] analysis of the visual symbols of the business school. He began by rejecting the specific symbols of business and instead sought to identify... View Details

01 May 2013
News

George H. Strong, MBA 1951

directors analyzes, deliberates, and decides.” Participating in case discussions and writing weekly WACs (Written Analysis of Cases), says Strong, “allowed us not only to observe, but to take part in figuring out how to solve business... View Details

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