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organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Professor Karim Lakhani discusses how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional View Details

• 12 Mar 2019
• Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

perhaps the most cited rationale by investors and firms seeking to explain their ambitions for operations on the Continent. Yet in the intervening decade since The Economist published its namesake issue, many investors and firms have... View Details

• 2010
• Working Paper

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks

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Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-110, June 2010.

• 08 May 2025
• HBS Seminar

Ramesh Johari, Stanford

• 14 Apr 2009
• First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

Historically, spin-offs have been attractive investments because of supply-demand dynamics associated with their investor base. The case is an opportunity to ask whether the same dynamics will operate for TA. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 14 Feb 2011
• Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

organizations are already organized around product categories or customer categories," Christensen says, "and therefore people only see opportunities within this little frame that they've stuck you in. So you have to think inside of a category as opposed to getting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

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Agribusiness Seminar

constraints Leverage data and technology to improve decision making, operating efficiency, and responsiveness to customers Defend against commodification and drive profitability through product and marketing... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture

• 2019
• Article

Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems

By: Hadi Elzayn, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zachary Schutzman

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. loans given that are repaid, or criminals that are apprehended).... View Details

Keywords: Allocation Problems; Algorithms; Fairness; Learning

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Elzayn, Hadi, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, and Zachary Schutzman. "Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems." Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2019): 170–179.

• 19 Jun 2012
• First Look

First Look: June 19

low. Unconscious processes require less energy and may operate unhampered when energy is low. Therefore, we propose that whereas low blood glucose levels impair conscious thought, this is not the same for unconscious thought. An... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 31 Jul 2012
• First Look

First Look: July 31

negotiations can affect interaction processes and how negotiations can be not only a solution to, but also a source of, inter-organizational conflict. Principals, agents, and teams face different sets of constraints and opportunities in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

prices. The authors use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the frictions and constraints facing intermediaries. They show that at least two types of segmentation drive arbitrage... View Details

• 24 Apr 2018
• First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

transient investors. This result is more pronounced for firms with high growth opportunities, not controlled by a family, operating in 'sin' industries, and exhibiting commitment to IR. I find that the results are robust to the inclusion... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

of members in Humana Medicare Advantage plans now had access to Humana-provided primary care, home care, behavioral health, and mail order pharmacy services. Innovative partnerships with private equity firms had helped finance the acquisition and View Details