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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
friend and CassVita cofounder, Nembu Emmanuel, saw that scenario as “a space for innovation” that could improve the lives of farmers by maximizing the amount of produce they can bring to market. Ajanoh and Emmanuel leveraged their... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
discrimination, where companies have various prices at the same time for different customers, depending on everything from geography to browsing history. Donald Ngwe: This has always been the best-case scenario for any seller, but it... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
government's administrative costs for Medicare are only about 5 percent. And I'm not sure that untrained consumers can ever become sophisticated enough to make truly informed choices about their medical needs, a scenario that some tout as... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
may love its convenience, but does it cost them in different ways? ©iStock | Onfokus Would we non-regulators still love Uber if it turned out Uber drivers were actually costing us money—even if we didn’t use the service? That’s one of the View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
imagine a scenario in which a firm asks its customers to tell their friends about a particular product in exchange for giving these people monetary benefits. Although such a scheme will probably benefit the company, it will also probably... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
"medium risk, medium gain scenarios like credit card processing, market forecasting, etc." in Shankar Avsb's words. He suggests that information technology will play a major part in remolding organizations for only a few, but... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
placed in the context of restaurants, rather than the more general subject of shopping, for example, the study notes. Statistics are better for immediate action. But, there is a scenario in which statistics actually perform better than... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
strategic changes Assess valuation scenarios by identifying and analyzing synergies from a merger and acquisition example Who Will Benefit Senior Managers and Consultants Analysts Aspiring Finance Professionals Use financial tools and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
single scenario among many that were likely—then I could discount the success scenario back to the present, and make a rational decision.’ So it’s really quite a different thought process, and it suggests... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
rejected could be a knock to their egos. Resentful feelings emerged in one study where participants were asked to imagine they gave career advice to a colleague. The participants whose advice was ignored in this scenario were... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
conditions.” 15 The legendary “Umpteenth Fighter Squadron” case used in the Army Air Forces Statistical School, for example, provided Air Force officers-in-training with the opportunity to diagnose scenarios they would face on and off the... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School's learning model, we provided participants with a "case"—this one consisting of the World Bank's scenario for global economic progress, looking toward 2030.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
loans. However, even if some companies ultimately go under, borrowing could help “flatten the curve” for bankruptcies, preventing a surge that could inflict more strain on the already struggling economy. Hanson compares such a scenario to... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
a set of assumptions and wanted us to estimate inventory. I'm a very visual person so I would normally want to write down the info to run the numbers. It's tough to absorb the scenario when there are cameras and everyone is waiting for... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
challenging negotiation scenarios involving the organization's loan clients. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of the Program Director and to consider how they would act in these negotiation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University project to point the way toward... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
2011, using cooperative and competitive scenarios in which participants performed both a verbal and a math test at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Each participant was given a pseudonym, with women... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
discussed (2). As recently as January 2024, the Government of India has discussed collaborating with France on small nuclear reactors, and the US government has indicated similar interest (3). A scenario involving an opening up of the... View Details