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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

MAR 2017 The standard expectation hypothesis posits that long term interest rates are expected sum of all the short term interest rates between issuance and maturity. Researchers Hanson, Lucca, and Wright... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

"Privately-Owned Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity" with Serguei Netessine. Christian Kaps : Awarded Second Place in the 2023 TIMES Best Working Paper Competition from the Technology, Innovation Management View Details

05 Jul 2021
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Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea of GM cars View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

As a center for creativity where innovation and entrepreneurship are intertwined, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem encourages the development of novel ideas, approaches,... View Details

May 2022
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Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger

Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash... View Details

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Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them as troublemakers, outcasts, contrarians: those colleagues, friends, and family members who complicate seemingly straightforward decisions, create chaos, and disagree when everyone else is in agreement. But in truth,... View Details

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

developing. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation View Details

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

October 2013 (Revised November 2016)
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Carbon Engineering

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra

Dr. David Keith, President of Carbon Engineering, a company based in Calgary, Alberta, is commercializing a technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The company plans to market the captured CO2 to produce low carbon transportation fuels in... View Details

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25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

colleagues can also dampen debate: People may hesitate to challenge or reject a bad idea put forward by someone they know and like. A diverse collection of colleagues provides an array of perspectives that can lead to truly View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

03 Feb 2012
HBS Seminar

Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

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Regional Winners - Alumni

fun, reliable, effective, eco-friendly personal care brand focusing on children and teenagers who have their own age-specific needs and preference. Tingting Zhong, MBA 2006, Co-founder & Co-CEO Region:... View Details

31 Jan 2014
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Body, Heal Thyself

BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; biotech; Scientific Research and Development Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

specifically for HBS alumni. These Advisors are a highly curated group of exceptional, experienced entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world. Harvard Launch Lab X GEO Launch Lab X GEO is a global View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Predicting Competition in Local Markets Competing Against Dominant Platforms Platforms in Your Value Chain Serial Acquirers Show Hide Details Concepts Understanding Network Effects Which Markets Will Tip Strategies for Underdogs Digital Platforms View Details

28 Mar 2018
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Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media

26 Apr 2016
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integrate businesses or separate them completely; whether to pursue business partners, and if so, what those partners should look like; and whether IBM, a large, established technology company, is the right... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2024
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History of the HBS Women's Student Association

groundbreaking platform that empowers aspiring women entrepreneurs to present their business ideas, fostering a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. Additionally, the revival of the annual fall retreat... View Details

05 Sep 2018
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The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

pixelfit Companies that contribute to open source software and use it in their own IT systems and applications can gain a competitive advantage—even though they may be helping their competitors in the short... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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