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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Paper at the DRUID 2013 Conference in Barcelona, Spain, for "Spatial Organization of Firms: Location Choices through the Value Chain" (with Mercedes Delgado). Juan Alcacer : Received the Meritorious Service Award from Management Science... View Details

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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

decision theory in which we were advised to construct decision trees, mapping outcomes, attaching values to each one, and estimating probabilities that various combinations of outcomes might occur. Judgment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

next? Key Themes: As a public pension plan, CalSTRS operates in the context of a complex array of stakeholders, who from time to time push for divestment or other values-driven investment decisions. And yet, as a fiduciary, CalSTRS must... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

of the ocean plastic problem is our plastic.” To get higher rates of recycling in impoverished communities, Goodwin says plastic has to have economic value. “If you can establish a value in those plastics, people will pick it up. Paying... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

January 1987
Article

Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem

By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont

When a decision rule is implemented using a Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism in which the messages are publicly observable, the players' information is augmented by their observation of each others' strategies. In this paper we study the set of Bayesian... View Details

Keywords: Incentives; Commitment; Mechanism Design; Decision Making; Information

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Instructor Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

'To See Ourselves as Others See Us': The Rewards of Classroom Observation by James Austin with Ann Sweet and Catherine Overholt 1999 Evaluating Your Success by Laurence E. Lynn June 1987 Evaluating Student Evaluations by Kenton Machina... View Details

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

the redesign of the Alumni Bulletin and an early stage redesign of the alumni website; and welcomes the School's new Chief Digital Officer, Katia Walsh. Donors continue to demonstrate their View Details

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Negotiating - Alumni

than money! Evaluate all aspects of an offer and prioritize those that are most important to you. These include: Organizational culture and values Paid vacation time... View Details

June 2021
Technical Note

SPAC Space

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2020, over half of all initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States were special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), blank-check companies that typically had two years to find a business to take public, usually through a reverse merger. Together, 248... View Details

Keywords: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies; SPACs; Mergers and Acquisitions; Going Public; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Strategy

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Tim Kluska

Coming to HBS is like... Stepping onto a roller coaster with a blindfold—it's thrilling, unpredictable, and slightly daunting. Yet, you have faith you're on the right track, and as the ride progresses, you... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

customers begin to give more volumes." Wesco's costs began to go down, not just due to volumes but also efficiency. For the customers, value increased, thanks to price reduction and the fact that the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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What You Can Support - Alumni

Giving What You Can Support Giving What You Can Support Creating Value How will you make an impact? All alumni are encouraged to sustain the School’s excellence by giving annually to the HBS Fund. Donors who wish to target their giving to... View Details

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

and bolts of how to create, build, and sustain effective relationships with like-minded organizations to better accomplish a social goal. Previous research with colleagues on growth suggested that growth... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

worked out. It may have contributed to the thinking behind the “dot-com bubble,” which was characterized by a wave of IPOs for organizations built around the information economy, ballooning stock options, and new attitudes toward company... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

WTO, World Bank, and the OECD. Or they could be related to lagging capabilities of domestic companies, either in understanding foreign markets or in their own products, services, or value chains. Another... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

15 Dec 2023
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Like-Minded

matter whether a business is directly in an ESG field, but that ESG elements should be integrated into its core value system and management strategy.” While MPower Partners continues to offer investment from... View Details

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

Stan’s responsibilities include anticipating the end-user’s experience, gathering the resources needed for development, and building a business model to understand the value of the investment for the... View Details

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

to reshape their companies, and explored how they can put data to work for them in ways that create value for their own businesses. The data advantage in sports Big data is already being used heavily in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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