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Career Networking - Alumni
about what's going on within your own community. Executive Presence (Behind a Screen) Speaking up on a conference call, presenting your analysis to your boss, or simply "showing up" online as your best self—how do you make your View Details
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About - Global
increased geographic research diversity and faculty interest, senior researchers are placed in Singapore, Dubai and Tel Aviv. Latin America Research Center , São Paulo, establishes a more formal presence in Brazil. 2014 In FY14: 59% of... View Details
- 16 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing
Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Francesco Bova
- January 2025
- Case
North Forty: Managing Liquidity Through Change
By: Luis M. Viceira and Brad Towne
This case explores the interaction between spending and investment decisions at a family office, specifically the family office of Jeff and Tricia Raikes, with special emphasis on the management of spending, portfolio investments, and asset liquidity in the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Spending; Planning
Viceira, Luis M., and Brad Towne. "North Forty: Managing Liquidity Through Change." Harvard Business School Case 225-061, January 2025.
- May 2008
- Article
When Winning Is Everything
By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
Malhotra, Deepak, Gillian Ku, and J. Keith Murnighan. "When Winning Is Everything." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 5 (May 2008).
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Gelsinger's Time Go? Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, is deciding how to structure the firm presence in cloud computing. He can pursue the opportunity in multiple ways: doubling down the investments in an internal and nascent cloud offering,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
Financing New Business Formation
By: Paul A. Gompers
New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details
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A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
By: Edward McFowland III, Sandeep Gangarapu, Ravi Bapna and Tianshu Sun
We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing context, public... View Details
Keywords: Prescriptive Analytics; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; Optimization; Observed Rank Utility Condition (OUR); Between-treatment Heterogeneity; Machine Learning; Decision Making; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
McFowland III, Edward, Sandeep Gangarapu, Ravi Bapna, and Tianshu Sun. "A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects." MIS Quarterly 45, no. 4 (December 2021): 1807–1832.
A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers
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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral
labor economics. Read more about Jo here. Stella Jia UC Berkeley, Class of 2025 Stella Jia (she/her) was born in the Bay Area and grew up in California. The unique presence of technology in the Bay Area led her to study statistics and... View Details
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Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
this stage, the national business environment is characterized by strengths in all areas of the diamond together with the presence of deep clusters. Clusters become critical motors, not only in generating productivity, but also... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
2017 CA: BVT Publishing Global Marketing Management: A Casebook By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—During the last quarter century, international business was shaken by a revolution in global competition unlike any previously experienced. As companies move through the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2022
- Case
Afrigen Biologics: Vaccines for the Global South
By: Debora L. Spar and Julia Comeau
The majority of vaccines used on the continent of Africa (99%) are produced offshore. This makes African nations reliant on the West for major health care needs, a problem which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Afrigen Biologics (in partnership with the WHO)... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; Vaccine; mRNA; COVID; COVID-19; Inequity; Hub-and-spoke; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Production; Social Issues; Business and Government Relations; South Africa; Africa
Spar, Debora L., and Julia Comeau. "Afrigen Biologics: Vaccines for the Global South." Harvard Business School Case 323-030, October 2022.
- February 2015
- Other Article
Evaluating the Impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on Breast-feeding Rates: A Multi-state Analysis
By: Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Ariel Dora Stern, Christopher F. Baum and Matthew W. Gillman
Objectives: Despite the passage of state laws promoting breast feeding, a formal evaluation has not yet been conducted to test whether and/or what type of laws may increase breast feeding. The enactment of breastfeeding laws in different states in the USA creates a... View Details
Hawkins, Summer Sherburne, Ariel Dora Stern, Christopher F. Baum, and Matthew W. Gillman. "Evaluating the Impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on Breast-feeding Rates: A Multi-state Analysis." Public Health Nutrition 18, no. 2 (February 2015): 189–197. (Selected as Nutrition Society Paper of the Month, July 2014.)
- Portrait Project
Samrath Oberoi
screaming for help. He reminds me of the school bullies who had set my turban on fire. I was only 10 years old. My presence as a white space is the very essence of society, and I have vowed not to let such “silences” go unnoticed. Such... View Details
- 02 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Daniel Spulber
- September 2021
- Article
Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets
By: Feng Zhu, Xinxin Li, Ehsan Valavi and Marco Iansiti
Digital technologies have led to the emergence of many platforms in our economy today. In certain platform networks, buyers in one market purchase services from providers in many other markets, whereas in others, buyers primarily purchase services from providers within... View Details
Keywords: Network Interconnectivity; Platform Competition; Market Entry; Networks; Digital Platforms; Competition; Market Entry and Exit
Zhu, Feng, Xinxin Li, Ehsan Valavi, and Marco Iansiti. "Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets." Information Systems Research 32, no. 3 (September 2021): 1009–1024.
- 2006
- Dissertation
Enterprise Risk Management in Action
By: Anette Mikes
The new Basel regulatory initiatives and a burgeoning risk management literature signify the rise of enterprise risk management (ERM) in the financial services sector. However, very little is known of the roles that risk management plays in organizations and how it... View Details