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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

Global Partner (GP) company with a product or service challenge for students to address. The course culminates in a one-week immersion at the company’s location during which students meet with their GP and local consumers. The following... View Details

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Apply the three-step approach to climate adaptation Identify challenges you could encounter proposing adaptation practices within your company Reflect on the issues businesses may face when planning for... View Details

15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar

government's request for this private sector roadmap and lots of flattering about the need for our outside expertise. But it was clear to me we would not have a clue as to the... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

socialite Dina Merrill, who sat on the board for eighteen years and served on the compensation committee that approved CEO Richard Fuld’s $484 million in salary, stock options, and bonuses from 2000 to 2007. John Helyar, coauthor of... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

that online prices have longer durations, with fewer price changes close to zero, and hazard functions that initially increase over time. I show that time-averaging and imputed prices in scanner and CPI data can fully explain the differences with the literature. I then... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

30 Oct 2005
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Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value chain (in aerospace or computers, for instance). In... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

student, Paul Milgrom, who wrote a superb dissertation on auctions. We came up with a proposal for the FCC to sell spectrum licenses simultaneously, rather than one by one. Professional auctioneers were... View Details

04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

Abstract—I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this... View Details

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up skilled labor to be used for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Sep 2024
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If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

networks and emergent behavior, Badaracco proposes a roadmap for thinking about ethical ways to delegate decisions to machines. “It’s a potentially catastrophic mistake, with technology like this, to have... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006

Investments, in 2003. A third company, Cityboxes — a service for city dwellers that stores, tracks, and delivers items to and from storage upon request — is already in the development stage. “I love all... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

and scholar, Shakib Arsalan. In his letter, Basyuni Imran requested that Arsalan explain the reasons for the backwardness of Muslims of the time, compared to other nations. Furthermore, Basyuni asked Arsalan... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased significantly from 1994 to 2004, that the strength of risk management functions is significantly lower View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

It was very nicely put by [Executive Dean for Administration] Angela [Crispi] , saying that the start date of my term is 1/1, and I am indeed the 11th Dean of the Harvard Business School, a true honor and privilege. HBS is truly an... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

the arguments of economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz offering remedies for income inequality. Drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the US economy, he proposes ways to grow the... View Details

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

world as it is? Who are we? What can I live with? All five questions must be answered. According to the author, “Each question is an important voice in the centuries-long conversation about what counts as a sound decision regarding a hard problem with high stakes View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

Christensen For the past several years, in his last class of the academic calendar, Professor Clay Christensen has made life after HBS the topic of discussion. Why is it, he asks, that despite considerable professional accomplishments, so... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

are (a) "strategic" mergers that are potentially used as mechanisms for competitor pre-emption, (b) systems effects of mergers including the impact of mergers on sector-wide diffusion of technologies, (c)... View Details