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- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
ability to charge higher rates generated historic ocean shipping revenue of $48 billion and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of $18 billion, for a margin of 37%. This was in contrast to the traditional low-margin nature of the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
what is called the Invariant Proportion of Substitution (IPS) property, which implies that the proportion of demand generated by taking business away from a competitor is the same, no matter which marketing activity is used. "These... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to the JD/MBA Program
application in the months leading up to the Round 2 deadline. On the other hand, HLS has one application deadline with rolling admissions. Law schools generally prioritize the LSAT and GPA, so focus on maximizing those scores, but don't... View Details
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
Screening and Portfolio Tilts Engagement and Proxy Voting ESG Integration and Alpha Generation Sustainable Public Market Funds Featured Exercises Evaluate the ESG performance of various companies Match ESG use cases to corresponding... View Details
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Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting - Research Computing Services
Commands for Monitoring and Controlling Jobs The table below shows a summary of LSF commands. A link to the official LSF documentation is included at the bottom of the table. Note that JOBID refers to one of the job IDs listed from the View Details
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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures
To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details
- December 5, 2024
- Article
A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol
By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari
Introduction
Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
Thabane, Alex, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia, and Mohit Bhandari. "A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol." PLoS ONE 19, no. 12 (December 5, 2024).
- 06 Feb 2014
- HBS Seminar
Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
Black-Listed scripts were twice as likely to be made into films, with 30 percent of them produced, compared to 15 percent of non-listed scripts. What’s more, they also did better at theaters, with movies of the same budget generating 90... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
attempts to avoid bed shortages by sharing capacity have generally failed, in part, because of the persistence of an independent hospital culture. As COVID-19 surged in 2020, capacity varied widely even among hospitals in the same city,... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
players tend to be the same race.” The data does show that those preferences generally go away after three years, as a coach has repeated contact with a player. That effect, however, only applies to that particular player, and not to... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
of the group and each professional or student. But here’s the key difference from a contractual relationship: They are generous in the ways they meet the objectives of others. In a contractual relationship, leaders and teachers show up to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
wanted to have a career that was more practical and hands-on than theoretical (my husband is an English professor at Boston College, so that’s his domain). After college I worked in a pharmacogenetics lab at Massachusetts General... View Details
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Professor Geoffrey Jones, Flipkart's sale to Walmart didn't signal that founders of the online retail firm were less patriotic than an earlier generation of business leaders. It meant they were driven by different value system. 08 Jun... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
He believes the industry’s fragmented nature and massive scale, which combine to create high levels of risk aversion, have been a barrier. “No American general contractor has greater than a one percent share of the trillion-dollar... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
markets. This two-track approach turned out to be problematic. The branded business grew to significant volumes but continued to generate losses because the competitive environment was particularly tough for a late mover. Meanwhile,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Time Varying Expected Returns, Stochastic Dividend Yields, and Default Probabilities: Linking the Credit Risk and Equity Literature (with George Chacko and Jens Hilscher)
In standard structural bond pricing models, the firm defaults once the market value of assets has fallen below a threshold. Expected returns, or at least dividend yields, are assumed to be constant, which implies that any asset value movement is permanent and has the... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Responding to the Wii?
By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda
After years of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Two-Sided Platforms; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry; Video Game Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Hanna Halaburda. "Responding to the Wii?" Harvard Business School Case 709-448, January 2009. (Revised January 2010.)