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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Rawiah Abdallah
with local students on various projects. "We consulted with a solar-heating system provider on how to differentiate themselves and get brand recognition," Rawiah says. Returning to Africa For both her summer internship and her... View Details
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Inessa Lurye
today, Inessa heads up product strategy at Maxwell Health, an "operating system for employee benefits" that centralizes health and benefits data to help employees navigate options more simply and satisfactorily. "I hadn't... View Details
- 18 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS
J-Term internship before. I was working for a three-time governor who also happened to be George W. Bush's Secretary of Health and Human Services. It was an amazing experience to work closely with a national leader on healthcare system... View Details
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HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications - Research Computing Services
Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications The default size for project directories on the Research Grid is 50GB, with increases granted upon request. When a project directory is full, the View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
stakeholders, including employees, communities, value-chain partners, the planet, and future generations; and drives broader system changes by working in collaboration with governments and civil society. Both speakers talked about... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
investigate some kind of central challenge to the broader society,” Thomas says. “How about a trek to the Sudan, or a trek to look at public education in places where school systems face major challenges?” D’Avella adds that the work in... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities
By: David S. Scharfstein and Sergey Chernenko
We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement bias in... View Details
Keywords: Racial Disparity; Paycheck Protection Program; Measurement Error; AI and Machine Learning; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Forecasting and Prediction; Outcome or Result
Scharfstein, David S., and Sergey Chernenko. "The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities." Working Paper, April 2023.
- July 2020
- Teaching Note
COVID-19: The Global Shutdown
By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
In the first months of 2020, a pandemic overwhelmed the world. COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, spread from China and created a severe public health emergency across countries. While an immediate fear of the disease’s impact on human life permeaacted... View Details
- January 2007 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road
By: Aldo Musacchio
Covers President Lula's challenges to reduce "Brazil cost" and grow like other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Experts agreed that for Brazil to grow like other BRIC countries, the Brazilian government would have to reduce the cost of doing business... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Cost; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; China; India; Russia; Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road." Harvard Business School Case 707-031, January 2007. (Revised February 2018.)
- November 1996 (Revised August 1997)
- Case
Project "Dial-Tone"
By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
Bob Hellman, a partner in a West Coast middle-market buyout firm, is attempting to simultaneously acquire and merge three disparate firms in the rapidly consolidating telemarketing services industry. Hellman must value the individual companies as well as the combined... View Details
Keywords: Complexity; Private Equity; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Deal; Strategic Planning; Investment; Opportunities; Valuation; Service Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. Project "Dial-Tone". Harvard Business School Case 897-003, November 1996. (Revised August 1997.)
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. “The dual-reporting View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- Profile
Inessa Lurye
homelessness by fifteen percent; in two years, we housed 1,000 individuals and 250 families.” Creative approaches to intractable challenges At Harvard, Inessa is pursuing the joint MBA/MPP because she wants to “learn how to lead more effectively in complicated View Details
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Andrew Dervan
Like many of his colleagues, Andrew Dervan entered medical school to fulfill a passion. And like many of them, Andrew says, "I'm frustrated with the system. One out of seven dollars in the US is spent on health care. It's just incredible that so much money is... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
Manufacturing had good lessons on systems thinking and building a learning organization.” What advice do you have for current HBS students thinking about launching their own companies? “Find a great work partner, find a great life... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc.). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807011 Business, Law, and Society: The Systems Approach to Law and Management Harvard Business School Note 806-086 Presents the systems approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
to actually spend it, so no one’s playing the game, which then destroys value. And if it’s too liquid, then there’s suddenly too much of it in play, it loses all the value, and the game’s economic system collapses. It’s a very careful... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing
- 2025
- Working Paper
How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement
By: Barbara Biasi, Zoë B. Cullen, Julia H. Gilman and Nina Roussille
This paper provides causal evidence on how wage inequality among workers affects the labor movement using three complementary research designs: a vignette experiment with union organizers, a natural policy experiment that increased wage inequality among Wisconsin... View Details
Biasi, Barbara, Zoë B. Cullen, Julia H. Gilman, and Nina Roussille. "How Does Wage Inequality Affect the Labor Movement." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33978, July 2025.