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Fall 2024
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The Credit Rating Agency Market in Africa: Landscape and Future Research Directions

By: Saveshen Pillay and Anywhere Sikochi

We explore the role of credit ratings in global markets and highlight potential opportunities for research on the African credit rating agency market. We trace the evolution of credit ratings and conduct a comprehensive literature review of existing studies globally... View Details

Keywords: Credit Rating; Credit Rating Agencies; Credit; Conflict of Interests; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Markets; Africa

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22 Dec 2008
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10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

foster effective succession in the leadership ranks. In large part, the culture both prepares successors and eases the transition. Cultures can sour. Among the reasons for this are success itself, the loss of curiosity and View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

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Resources - Alumni

New Venture Competition Resources 45ms Past Pitches : View past Student and Alumni NVC pitches Become an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Day Job Joining the Right Start-Up The Startup Rules of Three HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship... View Details

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Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation

By: Alison Wood Brooks

Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details

January 2014 (Revised April 2025)
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The PGA Tour (D)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath

In 1994, the PGA Tour (the "Tour"), the dominant incumbent professional golf circuit, had created tremendous value for its players. In the 1974 season, players competed for $8 million in prize money; by the 1994 season, the total prize purse had increased to $56... View Details

Keywords: PGA Tour; Tim Finchem; Deane Beman; Golf; Professional Golf; Business Model; Value Creation; Adaptation; Sports; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; United States

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Decision Making Under Uncertainty

By: David E. Bell

Many of the decisions we face are made complicated by having uncertain consequences: how should I set my inventory when I don’t know what demand will be, should I refinance my mortgage when rates might go lower, how big a bet shall I make in a new business, and so... View Details

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Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

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Projects - Business History

Projects Projects Harvard Business School supports a number of multi-faculty projects that focus on historical research. The projects are diverse, but all bring together the shared interest View Details

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Career Resources | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

experience of fellow students and alumni. Network within related student clubs and interest groups. Search classcards and the student resume book on your Career Hub dashboard to identify those who have... View Details

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Automotive Product Development

At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details

11 Oct 2013
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Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

20 Oct 2008
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The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

maintaining a personal balance and staying grounded can the CEO achieve the perspective required to make decisions in the interest of the company and its long-term prosperity. View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

10 Oct 2023
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

Indeed, the surprise impact of hit songs like “Pass The Courvoisier” has not been lost on companies desperate to reach the lucrative youth and urban markets (sales of the cognac jumped after the song’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

24 Apr 2019
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The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

Behaviors, was prepared for the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in 2018. Source: Alberto Cavallo “Price stickiness is very important for the impact of monetary policy,” Cavallo says. “When the Federal Reserve lowers View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

100 product categories and found a few interesting things. Over the 15-year period that ended in 2019, right before the pandemic, prices for these products increased by only 2 percent (in real terms). So a box View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

is important or interesting to you, or you can use a provided scenario. In subsequent modules, you will use your earlier responses to build on your innovation project and make each phase of design thinking... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

coordinating the schedule for our one bathtub was a full-time job," jokes L.E. Ñ Tibby devoted much time to working with young members of the Mormon Church. She also played a major role in the restoration of... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

and Learning for her service as a teaching fellow for the undergraduate course "Social Psychology of Organizations" at Harvard College. Sunil Gupta : Winner of the 2003 Best Paper Award from the Marketing... View Details

14 Sep 2018
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10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

intense class format that forced us to spend a lot of time together, maybe because we have similar interests in technology, maybe because we feel like we understand each other better than people from other... View Details

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