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4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy - MBA

identification card that affords access to numerous activities and locations on campus. These cards allow entry into University buildings, offices, and parking facilities. In addition, they allow employee and student identification for... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Health Care’s New Frontier

1999, the nascent success of that program, called athenaNet, and the interest it attracted from investors and other medical practices convinced Bush and Park to shift the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

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The Price of Anarchy of Self-Selection in Tullock Contests

By: Hau Chan, David C. Parkes and Karim R. Lakhani

Crowdsourcing platforms operate by offering their clients the ability to obtain cost-effective solutions for their problems through contests. The top contestants with the best solutions are rewarded, and the submitted solutions are provided to the clients. Within the... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing Contests; Game Theory

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03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

O’Hanley (MBA 1986) Chairman and CEO, State StreetInvesting in Climate Remediation +Aris Papadopoulos (MBA 1985) Founding Chair, Resilience Action FundUnlocking the Emerging Market for Consumer Resilience +Kyung-Ah Park (MBA 1998)... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station model has also attracted the... View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

01 Oct 1999
News

A Constructive Summer at HBS

parking lot. As many as one hundred workers have been laboring on the site each day, pouring the concrete foundation and positioning the structural steel beams and columns. While the summer's extreme heat occasionally halted work early -... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

02 Oct 2012
News

Green Pioneer

passions have spurred him, among other accomplishments, to spearhead the creation of a 250-acre nature preserve (with a 10-mile walking trail) in Pound Ridge, New York; initiate and finance the identification of, and publish a brochure about, all trees, shrubs, and... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

26 Oct 2011
News

On Top, Down Under

the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. With more than 20 years of experience in the property industry, Fookes is responsible for the overall investment performance of GPT’s high-end shopping center, commercial office, and industrial and business View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

1988 Democratic presidential nomination. When Babbitt became Secretary of the Interior in the first Clinton administration, he asked Cohen to be his Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget. In this role, she significantly increased funding for national... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2006
News

Last Look

began at HBS (because the parade’s mounted-police escorts needed a large parking lot for their horse vans) before crossing the river to the Pudding clubhouse, entertaining some 10,000 spectators along the way. Parry reports that the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

and 47 minutes—29 minutes faster than any woman before her. The record she hasn’t broken—yet: The original objective was to break the speed record from the park entrance to the Aconcagua summit as part of an all-woman team. “I’m going to... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2005
News

Better than Cash

They’re also helping the Lena Park Community Development Corporation, which provides housing and human services for inner-city residents, to create a business plan for its new initiative to build a multiservice residential community. And... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; CAP; HBS; nonprofits; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Mar 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

Angeles River. “It’s been polluted and paved, but it’s why the Gabrielino Indians and Mexican Pobladores—who founded Los Angeles—chose the location they did. Now, in a fascinating turn of events, we are restoring the waterfront with parks... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

2021
Working Paper

Deep Learning for Two-Sided Matching

By: Sai Srivatsa Ravindranatha, Zhe Feng, Shira Li, Jonathan Ma, Scott Duke Kominers and David Parkes

We initiate the use of a multi-layer neural network to model two-sided matching and to explore the design space between strategy-proofness and stability. It is well known that both properties cannot be achieved simultaneously but the efficient frontier in this design... View Details

Keywords: Strategy-proofness; Deep Learning; Two-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability

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Clarissa Quintanilla

process for small businesses, and another to help develop the Newmarket district into the first green industrial park in an urban core. This summer, Clarissa will be working with I-Dev International.“It takes a market-based approach to... View Details

Portrait Project

Adam Zalisk

lots of little ones. Shortly after college, I was far away from the theater – working in Manhattan skyscrapers and suburban office parks; my desk strewn with board reports and org charts. But when evening fell, and I watched from afar as commuters' cars emptied the... View Details

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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Haynes, whose images were meant to promote the region and encourage further settlement, recorded towns, settlements, new construction, military garrisons, miners, mining villages, farms, Native American settlements, and natural scenery including geysers at Yellowstone... View Details

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

fairly following the rules of the process. In both cases, the researchers found that the department looked to outside stakeholders in order to establish that legitimacy. In the case of consequential legitimacy, Hiatt and Park found a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

rural parts of the country. It provides workers with more highly trained supervisors, pays them a living wage, and coordinates with the existing health care system, mostly in urban areas. “In retail mall parking lots, you could imagine a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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