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- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
And if you know what it costs to produce something, you know what constitutes a fair price. "If the annual chance of loss is 1 in 100 for a potential $100,000 insurance claim, then the expected loss is about $1,000 a year." But... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
men from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID), the model accurately fits entry patterns into self-employment by age. The option value of returning to paid work is found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
extent of MJ’s patient, innovative, and impactful efforts in creating a variety of climate literacy programs for U.S. school children. Her lengthy journey and dogged experimentation constitute an extraordinary legacy.” About the Author... View Details
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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge
Privacy Policy on this page. Your continued use of this Website constitutes acceptance of such terms and policies. General Statement You may visit the Working Knowledge website without identifying yourself or revealing any personal... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
look like when she was an investment banker. Originally from Los Angeles, Clarke is a “triple-winner” at Harvard, having earned her undergraduate, law, and business degrees from the University. While interest in such areas as View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- Web
Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
is the business model? Scope and Speed : How does a venture scale by expanding into new geographies, products, and markets? What does it take to manage multiple revenue streams? How fast should your expansion or diversification take place? Solution : What View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
partisanship, increasing inequality, and staggering bureaucracy. “But complexity is not in our DNA. The United States Constitution is a perfect example of simplicity,” says Deffarges, who also serves on the Executive Council at the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
'leadership'." Today's leadership heroes, however, stimulated debate about just what constitutes leadership. It is an important discussion, as several pointed out. Paul Stavrand put it this way: " we need to be concerned about... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
their organizational values, it constitutes fundamental change that can be particularly threatening and resisted. Furthermore, it pushes the corporation's actions more broadly and deeply into the area of social value creation where the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
effective communicator. Martin Shapiro’s 2039 by Martin Shapiro (MBA 1966) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) A dystopian novel depicting a world in which no nuclear explosions or pandemics have occurred, but, in the United States at least, View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
this question. These firms constitute significant fractions of economic output and investment in most large economies, suggesting that they could create significant economic linkages. Aggregate measures of rates of return and investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
“operational effectiveness”— merely constituted table stakes, the minimum required to keep you in the game. Slicing the Data Ever Finer With management consulting now several decades old, Kiechel finds that despite its shortcomings, the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
the significant risks, what that risk could do to the protection of capital, and a whole variety of other factors. And those of us who constituted what we now call the investment committee, not just me... At that point the firm was small.... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
“good enough” design solutions—solutions that formerly constituted their bread and butter work. They have had to move up-market to more complex work that requires much more client hand-holding. This is a dangerous pattern—it’s Clay... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
new expression of power that I christen: "Big Other." It is constituted by unexpected and often illegible mechanisms of extraction, commodification, and control that effectively exile persons from their own behavior while... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Terms , the Community Values , and the Honor Code together constitute the entire agreement between you and Harvard Business School Online with respect to your use of the Services, superseding any prior agreements between you and Harvard... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Schumpeter's thinking about capitalism. It moved him to a more historical and empirical approach that shaped nearly all his subsequent work. And second, much of the book constitutes a preview of modern, rigorous business history. This... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
licensors and licensees tend to have differing opinions about what constitutes "fair" and "reasonable." Hence the spate of recent lawsuits. For instance, last September a federal jury ruled in favor of Microsoft and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
Define what constitutes an attractive market for you—number of customers, amount of solar, degree/amount of whatever drives the need for what you do, etc. Based on that, pick and prioritize the markets that make sense for you. (6) Once... View Details