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Demonstration Policy | About

designate a moderator in consultation with the event's host. A moderator will generally be a member of the faculty or senior staff of HBS or Harvard. The moderator's aim is to act as a neutral arbiter and to ensure that speakers take open... View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

choose your path For many HBS MBA candidates, entrepreneurship rivals general management, consulting, and financial services as a meaningful career path. But by definition, considering entrepreneurship means pursuing something new, and by... View Details

05 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

Linux without contributing. Learning by contributing When a programmer or engineer runs into a problem or an opportunity to improve the Linux Kernel code, they generally suggest a change to a Linux “maintainer”–an experienced user who... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

neoclassical business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. To generate the size of spread increases observed during 2008-9, the model requires only disappointment of overoptimistic beliefs rather than large negative... View Details

06 Jul 2016
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How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

Should We Encourage the Redistribution of Benefits of Globalization? If So, How? The benefits of globalization outweigh the costs. But the costs are not being distributed equitably among investors, workers, consumers, and the public in... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

year. In compliance with federal and state legal requirements, the School’s objective is to spend as much of the endowment distribution as possible in any given year, according to the terms of each gift. Funds unspent within individual... View Details

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates Productivity rose almost six-fold in the United States during the era of railroad expansion.... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 B2B Sales and Distribution (also listed under Marketing) Lou Shipley Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Business at the... View Details

22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

quality, firms differentiate through choosing different business models; and (iv) low-quality firms are generally more prone to opening some of their technologies than firms with high-quality products. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

19 Oct 2021
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Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

merchandise into their distribution centers. All retailers are suffering from a shortage of truckers, a shortage of trailers, shortage of capacity in all the logistics networks to move goods around. At the same time, we’re seeing... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

28 Nov 2005
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Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

slaughter the animals some of whose parts ended up in Unilever's pies and sausages. Unilever made its own packaging, and transported its products on its own trucks and barges. It owned the distribution chain that delivered its frozen... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

defining what is a fair distribution of attention in a ranking, and then developing an algorithm that achieves this distribution,” says Sühr. The research team found that fair-ranking algorithms are effective, but only to a point: While... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412020-PDF-ENG Teach Plus: Mobilizing a New Generation of Teacher Leaders David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. CrearyHarvard Business School Case 412-027 This case profiles the evolution of Teach... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Electricity Renewables, nuclear, and carbon capture offer massive market potential The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest... View Details

2017
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Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies

By: Kris J. Ferreira, Joel Goh and Ehsan Valavi

Problem Definition: Farmers face several challenges in agricultural supply chains in emerging economies that contribute to extreme levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, for which to sell their crops.... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries; Agricultural Supply Chain; Intermediation; Multiple Cahnels; Walrasian Auction; Developing Countries and Economies; Supply Chain; Distribution Channels; Profit; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

small shop, or through itinerant peddlers. Retailers distributed basic goods, for example textiles and grains, to general merchants, while regional enterprises manufactured products such as tractors and... View Details

09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

Authors:Benjamin Chiao, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11156.) Abstract This paper empirically... View Details