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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
were less likely to optimize their revenues. “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain.” “There is no more biased instrument than the human brain.” Fixing such problems will also be complicated, Zhang says. A good place to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
optimize use of resources, encourage knowledge exchange and development, and increase innovation. "This book grounds the concept of a differentiated network more firmly in organization theory and tests its validity more rigorously by... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
of talent—connections that are further refined by an AI engine that ensures an optimal fit of both technical and soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
their aspiration. Over dinner, Seth spoke passionately to the group about capitalism and the responsibilities of business leaders. His words resonated with many and I am delighted to share them here, for all the School’s alumni, with his... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
is very significant damage,” observes Cohen, who is the author of IMPACT: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change. “It’s also a sign of a broken system,” he says. “Capitalism has created huge benefits to populations across the globe... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
their own assessments of his contributions to the field. Andre F. Perold, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair of the School's Finance unit, noted, "Bob has pioneered the use of sophisticated stochastic calculus for pricing financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
buying online. But even in the face of this—and what he sees as oppressive taxation and constraining bureaucracy—Beisert says the opportunity here is vast. In the United States, online purchases make up over 20 percent of the fashion... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing the student-to-valuable-time-with-the-teacher ratio. This model we’re experimenting with gels with the best learning experiences I had in my own public school in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
tallow, and creating a win for farmers, consumers, and the environment. “We need to stop looking at food and ag as a supply chain, which implies a one-way street, and think of it in a more circular way,” Lambert says, citing HBS professor Rebecca Henderson’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
need help. The students also teach each other. So every student is working at their own pace, and time is freed up in class to work on more open-ended projects. We think that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
featuring fascinating historical detail about each route, Seven Climbs is a compelling account of Sherwood’s efforts to answer a much-debated question: Which are the world’s greatest climbs? Faculty Books Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? Some insiders joke that any time MBAs pile into a field, it’s a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors argue that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions, half of which are unsuccessful because this key factor is neglected. This practical manual helps managers optimize and streamline their growth... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded startup and venture... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship flourish in many sectors, expanding beyond just the software, high-tech type of startup, into financial services and the future of blockchain, for example. We want to support people going into many different spaces during the course of their careers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
logistics to web services—will be disrupted, with experts predicting that quantum machines will rapidly perform tasks that would take today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out complex financial chores like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will consume... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Union and started pulling billions of euros out of the banks. To prevent total collapse, the government closed the banks for three weeks and limited withdrawals to 60 a day. The capital controls hit the population hard; for many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
delivery app Dolly, and Peter is creative and brand director at PitchBook, which he likens to a “Bloomberg for the private capital markets.” Peter Escher reads to Josh while Diane Escher tackles toothbrushing duty as part of the bedtime... View Details