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- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the acquisition is the largest...
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- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience
impact people’s lives on a large scale,” he explains. “I’m excited about improving access to affordable health care globally and especially in South Asia, where I’m from.” As an undergraduate at the Birla Institute of Technology and View Details
- Career Coach
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...
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
It's a question often debated, but seldom answered authoritatively: Do companies have a social responsibility to protect the environment beyond legal requirements? Specifically, may companies do so within the scope of their fiduciary responsibilities to their...
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by Manda Salls
- November 1974 (Revised September 1984)
- Case
Environmental Pressures (B)
By: Norman A. Berg
Berg, Norman A. "Environmental Pressures (B)." Harvard Business School Case 375-127, November 1974. (Revised September 1984.)
- February 2021
- Technical Note
Probability Distributions
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This technical note introduces students to the concept of random variables, and from there the normal and binomial distributions. After a brief introduction to random variables, the note describes the standard properties of the normal distribution: a single peak, and a...
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Parzen, Michael, and Paul Hamilton. "Probability Distributions." Harvard Business School Technical Note 621-704, February 2021.
- 2017
- Chapter
Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges
By: Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner
This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance. We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better.
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Kaplan, Steven N., and Josh Lerner. "Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges." Chap. 10 in Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges. Vol. 75, edited by John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar. Studies in Income and Wealth (NBER). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- October 1995 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
Singapore Unlimited: Building the National Information Infrastructure
By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King, Soon-Siong Neo and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Describes the actions taken by the government of Singapore to enable the country to survive and prosper after it achieved independence in the late 1960s. Recognizing that its small size, limited natural resources, but excellent location placed it in a vulnerable...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Natural Environment;
Expansion;
Policy;
Infrastructure;
Singapore;
Southeast Asia
Applegate, Lynda M., John L. King, Soon-Siong Neo, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Singapore Unlimited: Building the National Information Infrastructure." Harvard Business School Case 196-012, October 1995. (Revised October 1996.)
- January 2013
- Supplement
The Great East Japan Earthquake (C): Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital's Response
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Yukiko Sakai, Rebecca Agonafir, Peter Cholewinski, Allison Kean and Emily Kloeblen
On the evening of March 11, 2011, Mayama Fumihiro, the Managing Director of Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital knew that it would be a long, cold night. The 103 staff members and 162 patients and families were huddled on the top two floors of the four-story hospital, where...
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Keywords:
East Japan;
Earthquake;
Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital;
Natural Disasters;
Crisis Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Japan
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, Yukiko Sakai, Rebecca Agonafir, Peter Cholewinski, Allison Kean, and Emily Kloeblen. "The Great East Japan Earthquake (C): Ishinomaki Kouwan Hospital's Response." Harvard Business School Supplement 713-440, January 2013.
- 2011
- Chapter
Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will
By: Thalia Wheatley and Christine E. Looser
One of my few shortcomings is that I can’t predict the future.
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Keywords:
Free Will;
Neuroscience;
Responsibility;
Prospection;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Science;
Cognition and Thinking
Wheatley, Thalia, and Christine E. Looser. "Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will." Chap. 13 in Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Lynn Nadel, 146–158. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- November 2011 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
COSCO: Implementing Sustainability
By: Christopher Marquis, Juelin Yin and Dongning Yang
Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Shipping Industry
Marquis, Christopher, Juelin Yin, and Dongning Yang. "COSCO: Implementing Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 412-081, November 2011. (Revised June 2015.)
- February 1994
- Background Note
Causal Inference
Discusses what causation is and what one can (and cannot) learn about causation from observational (nonexperimental) data.
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Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Causal Inference." Harvard Business School Background Note 894-032, February 1994.
- May 2004
- Article
Environmental Implications of Wireless Technologies: News Delivery and Business Meetings
By: Michael W. Toffel and Arpad Horvath
Keywords:
Information Technology;
Communication;
Information;
Environmental Sustainability;
Business Ventures;
Technology Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and Arpad Horvath. "Environmental Implications of Wireless Technologies: News Delivery and Business Meetings." Environmental Science & Technology 38, no. 11 (May 2004): 2961–2970.
- November 1988 (Revised December 1988)
- Case
Tejon Ranch and California Water Use
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "Tejon Ranch and California Water Use." Harvard Business School Case 589-066, November 1988. (Revised December 1988.)
- 10 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions
- 2023
- Working Paper
PRIMO: Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes
By: Seth Neel
We introduce a new differentially private regression setting we call Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes (PRIMO), inspired the common situation where a data analyst wants to perform a set of l regressions while preserving privacy, where the covariates...
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Neel, Seth. "PRIMO: Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes." Working Paper, March 2023.
- 2022
- Article
Climate Change Vulnerability and Currency Returns
By: Alex Cheema-Fox, George Serafeim and Hui (Stacie) Wang
Using measures of physical risk from climate change, we develop a methodology to allocate currency pairs according to a country’s vulnerability and construct portfolios with decreasing vulnerability to physical risk. We show that non-G10 currencies are more vulnerable...
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Keywords:
Climate Finance;
Vulnerabilities;
Currencies;
Foreign Exchange;
Climate Change;
Currency;
Natural Disasters
Cheema-Fox, Alex, George Serafeim, and Hui (Stacie) Wang. "Climate Change Vulnerability and Currency Returns." Financial Analysts Journal 78, no. 4 (2022): 37–58.
- March 2020
- Article
Diagnosing Missing Always at Random in Multivariate Data
By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Natesh S. Pillai and Donald B. Rubin
Models for analyzing multivariate data sets with missing values require strong, often assessable, assumptions. The most common of these is that the mechanism that created the missing data is ignorable—a twofold assumption dependent on the mode of inference. The first...
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Keywords:
Missing Data;
Diagnostic Tools;
Sensitivity Analysis;
Hypothesis Testing;
Missing At Random;
Row Exchangeability;
Analytics and Data Science;
Mathematical Methods
Bojinov, Iavor I., Natesh S. Pillai, and Donald B. Rubin. "Diagnosing Missing Always at Random in Multivariate Data." Biometrika 107, no. 1 (March 2020): 246–253.
- December 2009
- Article
Aspects of the Political Economy of Development and Synthetic Biology
By: Rachel Wellhausen and Gautam Mukunda
Wellhausen, Rachel, and Gautam Mukunda. "Aspects of the Political Economy of Development and Synthetic Biology." Systems and Synthetic Biology 3, nos. 1-4 (December 2009): 115–123.