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PRIDE

Keywords: Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
  • January 2008 (Revised July 2010)
  • Case

Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps

"Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of interest rate swaps to hedge the fair value of its fixed-rate debt against changing interest rates. This case provides students with a foundation for understanding the use of and accounting for more... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Statements; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Corporate Disclosure
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  • 21 Dec 2015
  • News

When the ‘sharing economy’ doesn’t

    Joshua D. Margolis

    Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

    Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
    • September 1992 (Revised September 2010)
    • Background Note

    Executive Stock Options

    By: Henry B. Reiling
    After a brief comment on the practical problems associated with taxing options and the possible occasions on which taxation might occur, the note describes the current policy imbedded in the Internal Revenue Code and gives examples of this policy in operation. The... View Details
    Keywords: Stock Options; Policy; Taxation; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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    • 24 Feb 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

    Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Marco Piovesan, an associate economics professor at the University of Copenhagen and a former research fellow at HBS. “It suggests that having breaks prior to testing is... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

      Ting Zhang

      Ting Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum.

      Professor Zhang’s research... View Details

        Juan Alcacer

        Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within... View Details

        Keywords: consulting; management consulting; telecommunications
        • TeachingInterests

        Strategy

        By: Frances X. Frei

        The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:

        • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
        • How to generate superior... View Details
        • 24 Oct 2019
        • Blog Post

        Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

        first summer working for Star Maa and Bigg Boss Telugu 2, a popular reality TV show in India. She spent her second summer as a Restructuring and Special Situations associate at PJT Partners in New York. Viroopa hopes to pursue a career at... View Details
        • 10 Mar 2022
        • News

        Business Schools Teaching Sustainability Want to Go Green

        • 08 Jun 2021
        • News

        Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

        • 09 Jul 2018
        • Video

        Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

        • 15 Mar 2017
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

        This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
        • 20 Feb 2019
        • Video

        How Financial Aid Makes All the Difference

        • Teaching Interest

        Overview

        Paul is primarily interested in teaching data science to management students through the case method. This includes technical topics (programming and statistics) as well as higher-level management issues (digital transformation, data governance, etc.) As a research... View Details
        Keywords: A/B Testing; AI; AI Algorithms; AI Creativity; Algorithm; Algorithm Bias; Algorithmic Bias; Algorithmic Fairness; Algorithms; Analytics; Application Program Interface; Artificial Intelligence; Causality; Causal Inference; Computing; Computers; Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Data Architecture; Data As A Service; Data Centers; Data Governance; Data Labeling; Data Management; Data Manipulation; Data Mining; Data Ownership; Data Privacy; Data Protection; Data Science; Data Science And Analytics Management; Data Scientists; Data Security; Data Sharing; Data Strategy; Data Visualization; Database; Data-driven Decision-making; Data-driven Management; Data-driven Operations; Datathon; Economics Of AI; Economics Of Innovation; Economics Of Information System; Economics Of Science; Forecast; Forecast Accuracy; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Information Technology; Machine Learning; Machine Learning Models; Prediction; Prediction Error; Predictive Analytics; Predictive Models; Analysis; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Digital Transformation; Information Management; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption

          David Shin

          David Shin is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research explores how people navigate intra-organizational networks. In particular, he is... View Details
          • August 2012
          • Case

          Polar Sports, Inc.

          By: W. Carl Kester and Wei Wang
          Polar Sports, Inc. is a fashion skiwear manufacturing company in Littleton, Colorado. The company has a unique design for skiwear using a special synthetic material that improves insulation and durability. The ski apparel industry is highly competitive and the best way... View Details
          Keywords: Production; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Colorado
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          Field Experiments (PhD)

          This course is for doctoral students who want to learn how to design and run field experiments as a research methodology. The objective is for students to refine their own experimental designs and be able to run them by the end of the course, leading to an academic... View Details

          • 27 Mar 2024
          • Blog Post

          Video: Inspirational Women in Business

          important to pull generations of other women forward. Veronica Chua: I actively seek out opportunities to mentor and uplift others, especially young women entering male-dominated fields like tech, operations, and finance. Whitley Cargile: As incoming co-president of... View Details