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  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

case asks students to evaluate the pricing of preferred stock relative to common stock at this time. As the case takes place during a period of considerable uncertainty in global capital markets, and conventional sources of arbitrage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

the position of Brand Development Manager (BDM) to build the company's presence, sales, and relationships with its retail customers. After one year, the CEO, CFO and President must evaluate the impact of the BDM on retail customers, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

end-users as the basis for high-speed, digital, interactive, multimedia services." The scenarios, said moderator Scott Bradner, senior technical consultant at Harvard, were not so much predictions as a means to evaluate the next... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

summer, evaluate what worked in 2020 and what you can improve in 2021. Consider what opportunities may be available for small group in-person experiences or how an all-virtual program will allow you to attract new candidates. While many... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 16 Jul 2019
  • News

The Making of a Movement

the Linns also sought input from nonprofit leaders. “The advice that resonated with us most,” David notes, “was to evaluate what we could provide versus what already existed.” Through that prism, the question was not whether they could do... View Details
Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer
  • 16 Nov 2017
  • News

The Business of Social Justice

communication, networking, and policy advocacy. As COO, Brooks is the steadying force who keeps the ship on course, by overseeing strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as evaluating programs to determine what is working... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 19 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding Purpose in Profit

benefit corporation. It’s a new legal tool that is intended to create a solid foundation for long-term alignment and value creation for mission-driven, for-profit companies. It protects a company’s mission through capital raises and leadership changes, creates more... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations
  • December 2010
  • Case

Oral Rehydration Therapy

By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi
This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
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  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

from investors. CircleLending is a pioneer in the informal lending market, a largely unstudied and little understood consumer finance segment. Asheesh Advani, the founder and CEO of CircleLending, must evaluate the relative attractiveness... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

leadership among the business community by founding the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG). Our project evaluated the role that AM and EPSMG played during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Measuring the "Impact" in Impact... View Details
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

and really evaluating every area of the operation to find efficiencies and ways to get more food to the communities we serve. “Knowing that our work could determine whether someone got a meal or not the next day certainly kept me up at... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

substantially shifts how the company views individuals. Within this framework, Mary Caroline Tillman, the case protagonist, is faced with an evaluation decision between two candidates who have different competencies, past experience, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

case considers the challenges of entering the fiercely competitive retirement market, introduces students to the large literature on the behavioral biases of individual investors, and asks students to evaluate an innovative new financial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

Lincoln Publication:Journal of Labor Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

Race and Seeming Racist? Evaluating Strategic Colorblindness in Social Interaction Authors:Evan P. Apfelbaum, Samuel R. Sommers, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 95, no. 4 (2008): 918-932... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

The Kraft team is conducting interviews to evaluate models at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (philanthropy); at Stanford’s StartX and MIT’s Sandbox (incubator); and at Breakout Labs and Root Capital (venture philanthropy). “We’re... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

order and devour a pepperoni pizza at midnight, try tackling next week’s grocery list instead. Researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth of customer orders from an online grocer. Their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

technology or software people are trained in. People won't flinch to make sure that their employees have the right tools and technology. Language is no different. Q: How are talent evaluation methods driven by a language strategy? Or how... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

Early Warning System that conveyed the bank's "risk view." Management started using these tools to frame important debates, such as the evaluation of divisional heads' performance at quarterly business reviews. The system also helped the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking