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    Zhongming Jiang

    Zhongming Jiang is a Ph.D. student in Marketing (Quantitative) at Harvard Business School. His methodological interests include Bayesian {nonparametrics, causal inference, deep learning}, and probabilistic machine learning. Substantively, he is interested... View Details

      Peter Tufano

      Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

      Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
      • 25 Oct 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: October 25

      Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 Jul 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

      Pressure to increase gender diversity in C-suites is so intense that companies are trying to draw women candidates with higher salary offers, a phenomenon that is closing the gender pay gap among senior executives, research shows. Female executives still don’t View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz

        Summit Public Schools

        In early 2018, Diane Tavenner, co-founder and CEO of Summit Public Schools, a charter management organization, was full of hope and anticipating good outcomes for its future student graduates. The graduating class of 2017 was Summit’s first cohort of high school... View Details

        • January 2014
        • Supplement

        J.C. Penney's 'Fair and Square' Strategy (B): Out with the New, In with the Old

        By: Elie Ofek, Jill Avery and Jose B. Alvarez
        In his August 2012 earnings call, CEO Ron Johnson urged investors to be patient and stay the course with the revised JC Penney marketing strategy despite mounting negative financial indicators. The heart of the strategy was the "Fair and Square" approach to pricing.... View Details
        Keywords: Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Retail Industry
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        • September 2021
        • Case

        Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

        By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
        Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details
        Keywords: Subscription Model; Price; Financial Strategy; Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Goals and Objectives; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Markets; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Strategy; Commercialization; Expansion; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Europe; North and Central America; South America
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        • August 2014 (Revised March 2015)
        • Case

        Molycorp: Issuing the 'Happy Meal' Securities (B)

        By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
        Molycorp, the Western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expansion in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. After reporting lower than expected... View Details
        Keywords: Convertible Debt; Uncertainty; Startup; Growth; Rare Earth Minerals; Mining; Hedge Funds; Short Selling; Equity Capital; Capital Structure; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Metals and Minerals; Equity; Capital; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financial Management; Mining Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Canada; California
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        • 29 Jul 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

        opportunity that are essential to legitimizing that deployment of self-interest." In other words, capitalism earns its legitimacy through the idea that the pursuit of self-interest explicitly delivers on certain moral goods for... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding
        • 2014
        • Working Paper

        Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

        By: Edward Ludwig, Elise Walton and Michael Beer
        Over the past years, forward-looking CEOs have adopted a higher-ambition approach to strategy and leadership. These "higher-ambition CEOs" are driven by a sense of purpose that goes beyond achieving financial success. They aspire to build organizations that succeed in... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy; Leadership Style; Management Teams
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          Robert C. Merton

          Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

          Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

          Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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          Publications - Faculty & Research

          Climate Instability: Understanding and Managing Physical Climate Risk By: Michael W. Toffel and Spencer Glendon In this compelling video, Spencer Glendon, founder of Probable Futures and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School,... View Details
          • February 2019
          • Teaching Note

          Talent@Tencent

          By: Tarun Khanna
          Late in 2016, two senior human resources (HR) executives at Tencent Holdings (Tencent), China’s leading Internet services firm, are assessing the effectiveness of the company’s talent management practices in responding to Tencent’s sustained hypergrowth. Over the... View Details
          Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Retention; Entrepreneurship; Employee Relationship Management; Web Services Industry; China
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          • 04 Mar 2020
          • Research & Ideas

          How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

          write in the working paper. “Not only is this unfair, it is inefficient; the economy is missing out on women who would make great managers.” Male employees with male managers earn 13 percent more In studying... View Details
          Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
          • 2011
          • Article

          'Deprival Value' vs. 'Fair Value' Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the 'Revenue Recognition' Conundrum

          By: Joanne Horton, Richard H. Macve and George Serafeim
          Revenue recognition and measurement principles can conflict with liability recognition and measurement principles. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement approaches coincide and when they conflict. We show that where entities expect... View Details
          Keywords: Fair Value; Deprival Value; Contract Liabilities; Fair Value Accounting; Measurement and Metrics; Profit; Revenue Recognition; Assets; Performance Evaluation; Contracts
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          • 20 May 2008
          • First Look

          First Look: May 20, 2008

          taken a position in a Mexico-based closed-end fund. Following a hard-fought proxy contest in which he advocated for management to eliminate the fund's substantial discount, Goldstein earns a seat on the... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 05 Dec 2017
          • First Look

          First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

          that addresses part of that challenge—with a particular focus on predicting customer churn. However, several other equally important aspects of managing retention have not received similar level of attention, leaving many managerial... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

            D. Quinn Mills

            Daniel Quinn Mills provides thought leadership in several fields including leadership, strategy, venture capital, finance, economics and geopolitics.  He has been a director of publicly-listed firms and is currently a director of several closely-held private... View Details

            Keywords: management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting
            • January 2023
            • Case

            Year Up: Measuring and Scaling Impact

            By: Natalia Rigol, Benjamin N. Roth, Brian Trelstad and Sarah Mehta
            Year Up, a non-profit that provides training and practical work experience to low-income young people, has for years prioritized impact measurement. By 2022, it had built a robust body of evidence demonstrating that its program yields higher earnings for participants.... View Details
            Keywords: Demographics; Education; Jobs and Positions; Measurement and Metrics; Performance; Research; Social Enterprise; Growth Management; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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            • 01 Jul 2014
            • First Look

            First Look: July 1

            Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to... View Details
            Keywords: Carmen Nobel