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Bloomberg: options

[PgDn] to scroll through the list of open contracts. While the roots of options tickers are based on View Details

14 Feb 2019
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LOVE At HBS

Love at HBS is a celebration of the diverse expressions of love that exist on our campus and in the world around us. This portrait project... View Details

11 Apr 2023
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Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

Traditional investing classifications consider Walmart a consumer staples retailer, but the company owns more than 6,000 retail and distribution properties around the world—the portfolio dwarfs those View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

2019
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Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems

By: Hadi Elzayn, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zachary Schutzman

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. loans given that are repaid, or criminals that are apprehended).... View Details

Keywords: Allocation Problems; Algorithms; Fairness; Learning

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1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) - MBA

Academic Progress 1.14 Academic Review/Academic Withdrawal 1.15 Official Transcripts/Certificates of Attendance 1.16 Student Educational Records 1.17 Field Based Learning/Independent Projects 1.18 FIELD... View Details

06 Oct 2010
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John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

achieved if an audience feels uneasy with those presenting a proposal. Without even saying the words, a question is raised about whether you are smart enough to have done careful homework on a problem, or visionary enough to see better... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

24 Jan 2018
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How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

habit-forming behavior, whether people recognized it as such, whether it was possible to induce the habit with experimental interventions, and whether the habit would continue after View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Oct 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Feng Zhu; Advertising

2012
Teaching Note

ChemChina (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang

ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details

Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

For more than ten years, I have studied digital strategy and worked with scores of companies around the world on their digital transformation. I have seen first-hand what works and what doesn't. Here are a... View Details

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shah, M.D.e, Thomas W. Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D. Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events... View Details

02 Nov 2021
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Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

done in the genuine interest of the greater good.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and transformed thinking in states, cities, and regions—defines competitiveness based on the measure of productivity, and focuses on the... View Details

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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

minutes but may go longer based on the instructor's cold calling philosophy and the opening student's level of preparation. Instructors must... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Q4 1.5 Building Trusted Organizations Sandra Sucher Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also... View Details

08 Feb 2010
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Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Search Fund Fellowship - MBA

Financial Aid Search Fund Fellowship Tuition Assistance Summer Fellowships Career Support & Exploration Funds Fast Facts MBAid Stories Consumer Information RISE Career Fellowship Thanks to the generosity of... View Details

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

17 Aug 2021
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Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

Human error causes at least 90 percent of the 5.25 million accidents in the United States annually. Could driverless cars save lives? Yes, but it may take a long road to get... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

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