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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
have the money in their account in just days, whereas in the conventional banking model small business owners may not be approved for several weeks. New Ways To Make Loan Decisions By and large, emerging... View Details
- May 2022 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
The Freedom Fund founded in 2013 to end modern slavery had raised more than half its intended target (by 2025) of $200 million. In 2021, impressed by its decentralized-partnering style of operations, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott awarded the Fund a gift of $35 million... View Details
Keywords: Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Spending; Decisions; India; Thailand; Ethiopia
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery." Harvard Business School Case 522-099, May 2022. (Revised May 2024.)
- October 2017
- Case
Shift Technologies, Inc.
By: Thomas Eisenmann and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2017, management at Shift, an online marketplace that uses a “high touch,” concierge approach to buy and sell used cars, was formulating plans for the San Francisco–based startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to preserve Shift’s current business model... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Multi-Sided Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Eisenmann, Thomas, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Shift Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 818-002, October 2017.
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for 411010. View Details
- 2009
- Introduction
Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments: Touchpoints and Touchdowns in a Distinguished Scholarly Career
By: R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel and M. H. Bazerman
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Civil Society or Community
Kramer, R. M., A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M. H. Bazerman. "Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments: Touchpoints and Touchdowns in a Distinguished Scholarly Career." Introduction to Chap. 1 Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments, edited by R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M. H. Bazerman, 1–9. Routledge, 2009.
- January 1988 (Revised May 1992)
- Case
Howard Head and Prince Manufacturing, Inc.
Deals with the issue of an entrepreneur in a very successful company deciding whether to stay through a period of great growth or to sell. What are the entrepreneur's responsibilities to the organization, to his employees, to the public? As subtopics, the issues of... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Patents; Law; Markets; Production; Sales
Stevenson, Howard H. "Howard Head and Prince Manufacturing, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 388-079, January 1988. (Revised May 1992.)
- 1989
- Book
Future Competition in Telecommunications
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Jerry A. Hausman
Bradley, Stephen P. and Jerry A. Hausman, eds. Future Competition in Telecommunications. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1989.
- September 2023
- Exercise
Irrationality in Action: Decision-Making Exercise
By: Alison Wood Brooks, Michael I. Norton and Oliver Hauser
This teaching exercise highlights the obstacle of biases in decision-making, allowing students to generate examples of potentially poor decision-making rooted in abundant and unwanted bias. This exercise has two parts: a pre-class, online survey in which students... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood, Michael I. Norton, and Oliver Hauser. "Irrationality in Action: Decision-Making Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 924-007, September 2023.
- 1992
- Other Unpublished Work
Values in Transition: The Choices Embodied in State and Local Spending
By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E. Friar
- October 1987 (Revised August 1998)
- Supplement
CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (B)
Contains a list of six questions that the jury was required to answer in order to deliver a verdict. View Details
Roberts, Michael J. "CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 388-042, October 1987. (Revised August 1998.)
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Six HBS Doctoral Students Win Prestigious Research Awards
- 19 Oct 2015
- News
Goldman Sachs paid to expand pre-K in Utah. It worked.
- 12 Dec 2024
- News
Six Lessons from Companies That Shut Down Their Business in Russia
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
- 04 Oct 2013
- News
Detroit 40 Under 40: Rejji Hayes
- 30 May 2023
- News
6 Strategies to Improve Your Negotiation Skills
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer What’s behind the decisions we make, especially when it comes to eating well and losing weight? Can companies motivate employees to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- September 2004
- Article
Capital Controls: A Political Economy Approach
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper examines the economic consequences of political conflicts that arise when countries implement capital controls. In an overlapping-generations model, agents vote on whether to open or close an economy to capital flows. The young (workers) receive income from... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Voting; Conflict of Interests; Capital; Government and Politics; Wages; Saving; Forecasting and Prediction
Alfaro, Laura. "Capital Controls: A Political Economy Approach." Review of International Economics 12, no. 4 (September 2004): 571–590.