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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

Meeting Past Program Resources Be an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Day Job What if there was a way to pair the stability of a day job with the excitement and upside of entrepreneurship? Using proven strategies and a range of case... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Assistant, which helps new sellers prepare professional-looking online listings, and its Turbo Lister service, which tracks and manages thousands of bulk listings on home computers. The company has also established and maintained performance standards that enhance the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

GDP growth, exchange rates, the stability of the financial system, and so on. In more normal economic times, he would likely focus mainly on maintaining a low and stable rate of inflation—perhaps around 2 percent. He has written and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Robin Greenwood | About

the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of the Business Economics PhD program, and head of the Finance Unit (2018-2021). He was a previous member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

underlying principles: Businesses try to learn from noisy signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

to begin to address the income inequality gap and offer some measure of stability to employees who don't always enjoy that quality in their work lives." View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

manufacturing industries has been identified by some observers as a key factor in the current economic crisis in that region, a collapse that has been called the greatest threat to the world's economic stability in fifty years.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

goals of balancing budgetary stability with the preservation of the endowment’s purchasing power. Each year the Harvard Corporation approves the final distribution amount. Funds within the HBS endowment, along with those of the other... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

L.E. Simmons

distinction; to help stabilize it against Houston's tempestuous weather, excavation for the tower's foundation was completed to a depth of 63 feet, twice that of the Empire State Building's underpinnings. It is a fitting headquarters for... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

informational cues it provides. We propose that it is this very stability that provides a springboard for firms to reorient resources in order to adapt to a changing environment. For example, when Mahindra had to lay off 500 people to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2017
  • HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

of these businesses is absolutely critical to neighborhood stabilization and development in a way that big-box retailers can’t possibly be,” Schlesinger responds. “And the learning opportunity for students is incredibly rich. This is the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

other. On the one hand, licensure and vetting of an asset to be able to trade it in some centralized system—that sounds like a really good thing from a stability and oversight perspective. But at the same time, that could very much limit... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology
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Considering Retirement - Alumni

like to have? Are you attracted to stability – or adventure? Some people prefer time for family and hobbies; others want an encore career (perhaps in nonprofit service) that applies the skills they acquired in their previous careers to... View Details
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

version: $ module load matlab The default is determined either according to alphanumeric sorting or, in some cases, the version we have chosen to be the default latest version based on stability or commonality. It is strongly recommended... View Details
  • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

By: Francois Brochet
This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe
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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

basically disengage from the work. Unfortunately, downsizing will remain a fact of life, which means that leaders need to focus on the things that get hit. Communication and collaboration decline significantly. So too does people’s sense of freedom and autonomy.... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

negative. Part of the brilliance of Land's process lay in rethinking the use of the unexposed crystals. In his instant photography process, a hypo solution carried the silver from the dissolved grains and deposited it on the receiving sheet to form a positive print.... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Harrison Prize for Best Article Published in Political Studies during 1998 for "The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992" (June 1998). View Details
  • 19 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

reflect persistent disparities based on race, gender, age, and educational attainment. Coming out of the crisis, providing more workers with pathways to economic stability will depend in large part on forging stronger connections between... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

recognize that there is an optimal dependency ratio range beyond which increasingly urgent action is needed to stabilize social costs and attract investment." Several interesting actions were suggested. Many involved the way in which... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett