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Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

Get to better, more effective strategy.

In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In "Better, Simpler Strategy," Harvard... View Details

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Executive Education - Leadership

Leading in the Digital Era HBS Campus | 06–11 APR 2025 Drive growth by harnessing digital technologies and data analytics to build organizations that are agile, resilient, and... View Details

April 2011 (Revised June 2011)
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Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability

By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Ryan Johnson

Founded in 1994 when the Internet was still a "toy for techies," the case is set in 1998 when Internet IPOs were red-hot. Internet Securities provides hard-to-find financial, business, economic, and political information on emerging markets. Information from over 600... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Initial Public Offering; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation

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10 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle

thirteenth hour isn’t as good for you as using that hour for a new relationship with a different person.” They backed up this finding with existing data from several other surveys, including the American Time Use Survey, a dataset from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

treatment for women in the workplace, including lower pay and fewer promotions to upper management. 10 years of data studied To investigate the issue of financial misconduct, the researchers used a detailed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

this channel of cross border shock transmission from data sets of country level firm-claims and individual level syndicated loans. See Falk's other research here . See... View Details

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

Firm Dynamics Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2006
News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)

advanced networks were more susceptible to delays and errors. The amount of data en route was huge. If there was an error, you could lose a lot of data. Best decision: Deciding to self-fund the business. We... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

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Agribusiness Seminar

constraints Leverage data and technology to improve decision making, operating efficiency, and responsiveness to customers Defend against commodification View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture

12 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

Ferguson and Lakhani decided to test this theory using data from the Australian Football League (AFL), the wildly popular sport also known as “footy.” They detailed their findings in the recent working paper... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports

Fast Answer

Bloomberg: yield curves

bottom of the screen, or type GC and hit GO, to view the yield curves full-screen and get more options. To see the yields underlying the yield curve graph click Table. You can view the View Details

17 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

their idea, but a little humility and a lot of discovery work can determine whether there’s a winning solution and save a lot of wasted time and money building the wrong thing.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

07 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

29 Jan 2019
HBS Seminar

Bryan Bollinger, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

12 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

sequencing structure that their organization has set for them, and how do they make the decision to do that?” To find out, they analyzed data from a large outsourced... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

30 Nov 2009
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Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

those data using an econometric model that relates the growth in online music buying to the revenues per bundle. Q: Could we have real-world definitions of what you mean by bundle, pure bundle, mixed bundle, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

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privacy settings chosen by individual alumni participants. Data in the alumni directory include but are not limited to: contact information, employment history, interests, and... View Details

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Program Requirements - Doctoral

Applied Econometrics (Econ 2120); (Econ 2110. Introductory Probability and Statistics for Economists may be a required prerequisite) Econometric Methods (Econ 2140) Time Series Analysis (Econ 2142) Advanced Applied Econometrics (Econ... View Details

Article

Healthy Buildings in 2070

By: John D. Macomber and Joseph G. Allen

Fifty years seems a very long time in the future for most industries. Not so in buildings and real estate; built structures routinely last decades if not hundreds of years, as long as they are economically competitive. Any discussion of the 50-year future has to... View Details

Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Real Estate; Architectural Innovation; Public Health; Health; Buildings and Facilities; Well-being