Real Activities Manipulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

high-powered computers, and how the technology will be used in the real world. I learned deeply in a space I’m passionate about and developed an informed point of view. From the playing field to the sidelines A successful venture... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

the real world works with racism and power the day they leave the School than the day they arrived.” Austin: This course was more important to HKS’s mission—improving public policy and leadership—than any other in the core curriculum.... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Books

Business School Press) When he talks about his research on the process, economics, and management of experimentation, Associate Professor Stefan Thomke is fond of quoting Thomas Edison’s notion that “the real measure of success is the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots between what you've observed in the... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

competition has heightened activity and stimulated change in these areas." Tufano adds that the proliferation of information and products has been so enormous that a key area of competition has become the battle to simplify this overload... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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B2B Sales and Distribution - Course Catalog

operations and analytics module will focus on how AI and a sales operations tool stack give visibility into sales activities and drive sales forecasting accuracy. Course Content and Organization: There are live cases and traditional cases... View Details

30 Jul 2024
News

Reddit’s Rise

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details

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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library

aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

A Conversation with Dean Clark

CLARK: John has been very supportive of what we've been doing over the past sixteen months, and he's been actively involved in a couple of our ongoing initiatives. We still meet pretty regularly to compare notes on key topics. There... View Details

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

well (and no one is there to watch you). Exercise is also an area where individuals have a great deal of control, which makes it a therapeutic activity in times of uncertainty. Short-term bursts of strenuous View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

11 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Andrew Grochal on His Path to CarGurus

just hired our 450th employee. The growth has been pretty wild, and it’s been really exciting watching us take the US market by storm, launch additional products, and gain a real foothold in a couple of international markets. At the same... View Details

Keywords: Technology

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

we put people on the moon. There was this sense that: “Wait a minute, I thought we were going to have space hotels and moon bases.” Instead, the United States was going to have to buy trips for our astronauts to the Space Station from Russia. This caused View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

01 Jun 2011
News

Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

Entrepreneurship group here at HBS, in pursuing a whole host of generous philanthropic activities from NPR to the environment to just plain helping those in need, Howard has been a nonstop ball of energy and an inspiration to us all.” —... View Details

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

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

appears to be a significant component of financing activities in capital markets today; it could also affect how we think about government policies like quantitative easing, as well as other corporate View Details

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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets

Reserve Bank of India Archives (RBI) The Reserve Bank of India maintains a database on the Indian economy, including statics and time-series publications. Resources span the real sector, corporate sector, and financial sector, as public... View Details

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Driver for Provider Engagement in Costing Activities and Redesign Initiatives By: Kaplan, Robert S., Nancy McLaughlin, Michael A. Burke, Nisheeta P. Setlur, Douglas R. Niedzwiecki, Alan L. Kaplan,... View Details