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  • July 2003
  • Article

Probabilistic Representation of Complexity

By: Nabil I Al-Najjar, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Emre Ozdenoren
We study individuals' behavior in an environment that is deterministic, but too complex to permit tractable deterministic representation. Under mild conditions, behavior is represented by a unique probabilistic model in which the agent's inability to think through all... View Details
Keywords: Complexity; Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Planning
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  • 11 May 2015
  • Video

HBS Professor Forest Reinhardt on Pricing Externalities in Agriculture

    Gunnar Trumbull

    Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
    • 14 Apr 2015
    • News

    Making sustainability part of the business

    • 21 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

    For Harvard Business School students eager to make a positive impact on the world, one exciting path forward is investing in mission-centered businesses. Areas like healthcare, education, energy, and the environment attract innovative and... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
    • 29 Jun 2017
    • News

    An Eye to the Future: How the United States Navy is Managing Climate Change

    • 11 May 2015
    • Video

    HBS Case Protagonist Mohamed Hage on Rooftop Farming

    • 17 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Anusha Chari
    • 17 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing

    Keywords: by Xiaojia Guo, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
    • March 1993 (Revised September 1995)
    • Case

    Chemical Bank: Technology Support for Cooperative Work

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard
    Describes the organization and IT environment that Bruce Hasenyager found when he arrived at Chemical Bank. Goes on to explain his decision for implementing Lotus Notes as an "indispensable" management tool. Software is available: Order No. 9-196-701 (Windows version)... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Decision Making; Decisions; Management Style; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Applications and Software; Information Technology; Information; Information Management; Technology Industry
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    • 20 Nov 2017
    • Video

    Energy, Environment, and Business 101

    • 07 Feb 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Chuck Eesley, Stanford University

      Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence

      Although 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 and civil violence... View Details

      • Article

      Designing Transparency Systems for Medical Care Prices

      By: David Cutler and Leemore S. Dafny
      In the contentious political environment surrounding health care reform, calls for increased price transparency in health care are among the few areas of general agreement. But the wrong kind of transparency could actually harm patients, rather than help them. View Details
      Keywords: Transparency; Health Care and Treatment; Price
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      • Fall 2014
      • Article

      How to Win in an Omnichannel World

      By: David R. Bell, Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
      The omnichannel environment presents new challenges and opportunities for both information and product fulfillment. While all retailers need to effectively and efficiently manage fulfillment and information provision, there are important nuances to how this happens,... View Details
      Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; United States
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      • 07 Sep 2012
      • News

      Who's responsible for your happiness at work?

      • 2012
      • Case

      Beyondsoft Co., Ltd. (B)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang
      The case "Beyondsoft Co., Ltd. (A)" completed in early 2010 described the strategic path of Beyondsoft over its history of more than 10 years since its foundation in 1995, containing its major business lines and the relations with the major customers at that time, the... View Details
      Keywords: Computer Software; Entrepreneurship; Outsourcing; Strategy; China; Information Technology; China
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      • 20 Jun 2023
      • Video

      Alumni Reactions to Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference

      • May 2014
      • Article

      Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence

      By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
      Although 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 and civil violence... View Details
      Keywords: Conflict; Violence; Political Turmoil; Civil Unrest; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Balance and Stability; Crime and Corruption; Business Strategy; Planning; Colombia
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      • 17 Jun 2011
      • News

      Wells Fargo to stop offering reverse mortgages