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- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
decision rights and (2) adjust for local information, including historical performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm payout policy. Retail investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and growth in host countries, particularly developing countries. It provides a broad overview, with a focus on two elements that have recently become particularly important, (1) the role of complementary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
policy makers, educators, and private-sector practitioners seek to promote it today. Though the past, present, and future of meritocracy-building in China and India have distinctive local inflections, their attempts to enhance their... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
lab, and a pharmacy. Could they convince rural Indians to leapfrog from local healers to telemedicine? And could they convince investors that their capital intensive, bundled offering was a high-growth, self-sustaining venture?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
some companies hard-code ethical values—for example, the numerical value of a human life—into an algorithm. Others set up self-teaching AI to “learn” what risks the AV can take. Countries often want automated systems to adhere to local... View Details
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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
guide is for you. Access Your Free E-Book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
an impairment test.” Alliance: “A few years ago I worked with local government and pulled in others to help revive and redesign a funeral home that’s served African Americans in North Minneapolis for the last 50 years that was about to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
value (with principles that also apply to governments and nonprofits). For example, rather than merely paying a higher, “fair-trade” price to coffee farmers for their beans, a shared-value approach would dig deeper and focus on improving growing techniques,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
examines the many strategic choices Goldwind faced as it established its first major overseas subsidiary in Chicago: building a local team around a U.S. CEO, bridging cross-cultural differences among management, overcoming regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the home of Ana and Dr. Juan Gershanik, a local neonatal specialist. Gershanik gained national attention in the aftermath of Katrina for helping to safely evacuate all the premature babies at his hospital, which was underwater... View Details
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local community bank, St. Ansgar State Bank. Prem Ramaswami MBA ’13, Harvard University; BS ’04, Electrical & Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Prem Ramaswami is Head of Product at Sidewalk Labs where he focuses on using digital... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial, and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
follow. "If you want to put resources toward helping the local community—fix the housing problem or whatever it might be— [stakeholders] might look at you and say, 'What do you mean? Where's the bottom line in that?' " said retired United... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
external markets. In many companies, widening the span of influence counteracts the rigidity of organizational structures based on boxes and silos. For example, although global companies like Procter & Gamble need to be responsive to View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
probiotic beverage products throughout different regions of the world. The book includes in-depth knowledge of local authors on indigenous and commercially produced probiotic beverages and related products. Examining current advancements... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
with different levels of intensity. There’s a struggle going on, for example, between Arab Shias and Sunnis, and between Arabs and Kurds in the northern territories around the Mosul area. There is a struggle between various Shia factions for View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
couldn't become a millionaire today," challenged the student. "Bet I could," the scrappy coach replied. Within a few months, Hindman drove right into his opportunity. A local garage bungled routine maintenance on his Cadillac, reminding... View Details
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
interested in exploring online education but aren’t sure where to start, this guide is for you. Access Your Free E-Book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
jurisdiction of creditors and debtors. Local dollar-denominated credits and liabilities were converted on a 1:1.40 ratio, while obligations held with foreign entities continued to be enforceable at the new rate of 1:3. The crisis led to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace