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Featured Case Success Academy Charter Schools The multimedia case follows the story of Eva Moskowitz and Success Academy, a network of high-performing charter schools in New York City. The case explores the role of the government in the... View Details

10 Jul 2020
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Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help

Keywords: by Amar Bhidé

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

its commitment to transparency at a time when the School is involved in a $500 million capital campaign. It also highlights the School’s unusual business model. Unlike most schools, HBS does not accept government and third-party faculty... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

networks, product packaging, and financing instruments to meet the needs and requirements of very poor customers. As members of the School's Global Poverty Project (GPP), Kash Rangan, John Quelch, and other faculty members have studied... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
Case

Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (A)

By: David F. Hawkins

The IASB and FASB propose new contingency loss recognition, measurement, and disclosure rules (A case). The B and C cases apply these proposals to British Petroleum's Mexican Gulf oil spill and Union Carbide's Bhophal gas discharge. View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Trade; International Finance; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry; India

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March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
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Gold in 2011: Bubble or Safe Haven Asset?

By: Robin Greenwood and Benjamin Steiner

Case explores the pricing of gold in 2011. Is the pricing justified or are we in a speculative bubble? What data are useful in determining a view on this question? View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Money; Asset Management; Investment; Price Bubble; Policy; Risk Management

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08 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: London

Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to combat climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas,... View Details

06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net value of adaptation is strongly associated with delegation,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 1998 (Revised May 2001)
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Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (B), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Lori A. Flees and Mathew M Millett

Eight days after CSX announced it was going to buy Consolidated Rail (Conrail) for $88.65 per share, Norfolk Southern made a hostile $100 per share bid for Conrail. Over the next several months, the potential acquirers upped their bids while exchanging criticism in the... View Details