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Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

By: Jakub W. Jurek and Luis M. Viceira
We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Value
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FAQs - Alumni

utilize the athletic facilities during Reunions? On Friday and Saturday, with their Reunions name badge, alumni and their ( 14 years old) guest(s) can use the Fitness Room and Squash Courts free of charge. All other facilities are closed... View Details
  • May 2024
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Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare
Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • September 2023
  • Module Note

Live Case Exercise for Financial Reporting

By: Tatiana Sandino and Marshal Herrmann
Harvard Business School employs the case method as a cornerstone of its pedagogy, providing students with opportunities to engage in discussions related to difficult or contentious decisions confronted by real-world organizations. In this “live case,” we depart from... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Research; Corporate Disclosure
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  • May 2017
  • Case

CNS Worldwide

By: Robert J. Dolan and Karthik Easwar
CNS Worldwide has long been the market share leader in the IaaS cloud server market, yet it has remained unprofitable for years. Industry capacity utilization is low, and prices have declined over 70% over the last decade. CNS is considering withdrawing from the market... View Details
Keywords: Price; Marketing; Performance Capacity; Bids and Bidding; Analysis; Web Services Industry
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  • September 2007
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Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative social structures on an individual's creativity. We test the hypothesis that... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 15 Nov 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Ashley Nunes (Senior Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School), Harvard Law School

    TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or The End of the Beginning?

    TransDigm, an incredibly successful yet relatively unknown company, manufactures a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts utilizing a somewhat controversial strategy. In the 10 years following its IPO in March 2006, its stock price increased by... View Details
    • 24 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

    “The main onus is on businesses to make more hours available to part-time employees. That will enable employers to utilize workers they already have with company-specific experience, bolstering their income and reducing the odds that they... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • June 2018
    • Article

    The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World

    By: Anais Thibault Landry and A.V. Whillans
    How can workplace rewards promote employee well-being and engagement? To answer these questions, we utilized self-determination theory to examine whether reward satisfaction predicted employee well-being, job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and affective... View Details
    Keywords: Workplace; Rewards; Motivation; Employees; Satisfaction; Motivation and Incentives; Welfare
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    • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
    • Supplement

    Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (B)

    By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
    Supplements the (A) case. In this case, Wehunt and Morse are concerned about the logistic regression model overfitting to the training data, so they explore two methods for reducing the sensitivity of the model to the data by regularizing the coefficients of the... View Details
    Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Customers; Household; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
    • Background Note

    Plavix: Drugs in the Age of Personalized Medicine

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara G. Aspinall and Rachel Gordon
    PIavix, one of the world's best selling drugs in 2010, appears to have a limited future. Its patent was due to expire soon, and recently new data had been discovered that indicated that a small subset of the population would be at risk for stroke, heart attack, or even... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Positioning; Business and Government Relations; Genetics; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
    • Case

    Joel Klein and Leadership in the NYC Public Schools

    By: Christopher Marquis, Doug Guthrie, Richard Arum and Abby Larson
    Reviews the work of the New York City School Chancellor Joel Klein and his attempt to create a Leadership Academy in order to better train principals to lead New York City public schools. Assesses what leadership skills and strategies are necessary for Klein to create... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Training; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Education Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      The Comprehensive Effects of Sales Force Management: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Selection, Compensation, and Training

      This study provides a comprehensive model of an agent’s behavior in response to multiple sales management instruments, including compensation, recruiting/termination, and training. The model takes into account many of the key elements that constitute a realistic... View Details
      • 23 Jun 2023
      • HBS Case

      This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

      be tantalizing to consider non-nurse hierarchical layers to relieve nurses of some of their non-patient work and increase utilization from 62 percent to something much higher. That could also ensure that geographically dispersed employees... View Details
      Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
      • Fast Answer

      Patent terminology: Provisional vs nonprovisional

      What is the difference between a provisional and non-provisional patent application? A nonprovisional patent application is normally considered the "regular" utility patent application. It’s what you file to get the USPTO... View Details
      • April 2023
      • Article

      Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

      By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams
      OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

      DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry
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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      Optimize Energy Demand 20 NOV 2024 | Climate Rising In this episode, host Mike Toffel speaks with Pasi Miettinen, CEO of Sagewell, a company that uses AI to help utilities and their customers manage energy demand efficiently. Pasi... View Details
      • 07 Jul 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

      natural gas market. Diversification into water utilities and broadband soon followed, as did expansion to other countries that promised to deregulate and privatize energy production and distribution. Unfortunately, applying the company's... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Utilities; Utilities
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      4. Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

      Joint work with Lee Fleming (Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School) and David Chen (Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Business School and Harvard School of... View Details