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South Asia - Global

participants, including alumni and industry leaders. Archive See more News & Highlights New Research on the Region September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural... View Details

    Benjamin (Ben) Creo

    Benjamin Creo co-teaches the Innovating in Health Care course alongside its founder, Prof. Regina E. Herzlinger. While many courses in healthcare innovation focus on where to innovate, this course focuses on how to innovate. Its four modules discuss how to evaluate... View Details

    • 20 Nov 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

    Keywords: by Claudine Gartenberg & Julie Wulf
    • 14 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

    and capabilities (e.g., a reliable supply chain). Leaders are discovering they must proactively invest in the ecosystem and build partnerships (turn vendors into partners; join with competitors to solve problems government can’t) to... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
    • February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

    By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

    This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
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    • 22 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22, 2008

    "cat note" that offered a high yield, but with a chance of losing the full investment if severe hurricanes struck the coastline of the United States. Purchase this case:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Aug 2007
    • Op-Ed

    3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

    time when politicians are looking more actively at the investment vehicles that, directly or indirectly, facilitate risk transfer to insurance companies and pension funds. Political activity will increase further should some of the new... View Details
    Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking
    • 11 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 11, 2008

    are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced rule... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 09 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 9, 2007

    Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Latin America - Global

    Reskilling Model JUNE 2024 ALUMNI EVENT Alumni Event with HBS Club of Brazil The HBS Club of Brazil hosted a dedicated event for search funds in June 2024. Gustavo Vaz (MBA 2018), Marcos Noll Barboza (GMP), and Paulo Molinari (MBA 2020) talked about this innovative... View Details
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    Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

    and grow your career. 6 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Pay by July 7 $1,850 Certificate New Strategic Financial Analysis Professor Suraj Srinivasan Explore the intersection of accounting, strategy, and finance, and learn how to evaluate a business’s... View Details
    • 23 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

    features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it improves on the standard Diebold and Li model. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Fourth Quarter 2007
    • Article

    Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

    By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
    This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details
    Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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    • 12 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

    activity, and foreign direct investment from multiple sources, including corporate earnings calls. Less business in China, but trade remains global One major takeaway from the analysis: The share of Chinese goods and services fell to 16.5... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 10 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 10, 2015

    find that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these results to show how optimal... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    An Anatomy of Performance Monitoring

    By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
    Performance monitoring is a mainstay management tool in most organizations. Yet we still know little about whether—and why—better monitoring yields better performance in practice. To shed light on these questions, we study the introduction of a performance monitoring... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Monitoring; Worker Skills; Skill Depreciation; Managerial Inattention; On-the-job Training; Productivity; Multitasking; Quick Serve Restaurants; Performance Evaluation; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Performance Productivity; Management; Information Technology; Food and Beverage Industry; Puerto Rico
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    • March 2015
    • Case

    BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

    By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
    BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

    In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
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    • 10 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 10

    given difficulties at the portfolio companies and disruptions in credit markets. The case takes the perspective of a private equity firm evaluating the deal to determine whether buying leveraged loans is a good View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction. However, at a micro level,... View Details
    • 09 Feb 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 9

    reflect the predominant opportunities pursued by social entrepreneurs focused on public education in the United States over the last decade. The book offers an overarching framework for creating and evaluating social ventures as well as... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace