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Early-Stage Feedback | New Venture Competition
before the ESF Deadline. (Please read the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy when using this platform . By using the platform, you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions.) Prepare an Overview To prepare to submit an overview of... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
commented, "Operationally, profit as a final goal is probably impossible because of principal/agent problems and lack of information and knowledge. This makes intermediate targets that affect profit important." Steve Brogan,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives and improvements to the U.S. education system to back up industry action. Conference... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
such rifts, language training must include cross-cultural education. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/09/whats-your-language-strategy/ar/1 September 2014 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
units up to the contract quantity selected in the previous period. We prove that in each period and at each such stage, there are three base-stock levels that characterize an optimal policy, two for the inventory policy and one for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance, demonstrating that the increase in extra life year gains by relaxing certain fairness constraints can be as high as 30%) and also pursue the design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
targets and manage improvements in the same way as you would with financial performance,” said van Poecke. Schoonbeek and van Poecke pulled from their professional and academic experience to build a software offering that enables... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
imports 90 percent of its food supply, considered the uncertainties climate change is introducing into the global food market and set a target of fulfilling 30 percent of its nutritional needs domestically by 2030; alternative protein... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
likely to have broader negative consequences. If the president’s goal was to impact China, which produces over half the world’s steel and aluminum, this policy might not succeed. China is only the eleventh biggest exporter of steel to the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
issue here is industrial policy (on the Chinese side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side)" This equally calibrated response from China suggests we are witnessing preparation... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
want to do. That model is the basis for many use cases. Is my policy in compliance? What’s the pathway from here to there? Is it protected, is it encrypted, whatever it is? And then the measurement. This is something we innovated a couple... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Rwanda
Useful for: high-level economic and demographic information on the country. How Immigrants Contribute to Rwanda's Economy A book from the OECD iLibrary that details a specific area of Rwanda's economic growth Rwanda's Entrepreneurship Development... View Details
- Profile
Andrew Baxter
business practices and reimagining capitalism. How do we use business to affect society and seed change, even where policies are lacking?" "One of my big surprises here: the number of niche, View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
facilitate the expatriation of US corporations. Such transactions reflect the effects of policies and of the changing structure of multinational firms. From a policy perspective, the transactions highlight... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
As the quantity of online content continues to proliferate—from cute cat videos to policy experts blogging on the Middle East—the consumer's expectation that online content should be free becomes more entrenched. To make money, websites... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
class for recruiting. That is why as part of our recruiting policies we require recruiting partners to offer two interview dates for interviews that do not conflict with class-time. O – OCI (On-Campus Interviews). HBS works with companies... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
climate action. They are working not just in international forums affecting policies and regulations, but are also trying to make their climate goals and impacts accessible to the public by highlighting their View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
enjoyment. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51423 Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We develop a theoretical model of, and... View Details