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- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
help him understand themes across the deals that can inform construction of new deals in the future. Topics include unsupervised learning; similarity and proximity; K-means clustering, with measures of Euclidean distance and cosine... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
outlook for the next fifty years, I would say it's sensational. How would you rate your personal computing skills? I've kept up pretty well, by necessity. You can't get a stock quote today without being able to use a computer. Our ability to produce View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
socializing; keeping team members informed about stressful situations; addressing subordinates' negative feelings; and disclosing personal information); (3) recognizing good work privately and publicly; and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
and how likely each outcome is, conveying richer information related to business decisions. Its use is on the rise, but businesses are still learning how best to leverage it. Examples of this technique are everywhere. When meteorologists... View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
: Winner of the 2024 People’s Choice Flash Talk Award at the INFORMS Early-Career Sustainable Operations Workshop for “Power vs. Energy - When to Transition Between Storage Technologies” with Simone Marinesi. Himabindu Lakkaraju :... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
disproportionate stock price hit to an earnings miss reflects that informational problem. The promise of private equity involves solving that gap between owners and managers. Buybacks must be interpreted in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
Professor of Information Systems, Ivey Business School, delve into the growing neurodiversity initiative at software behemoth SAP in their case study SAP SE: Autism at Work. Software testing is exacting and requires precision, so can be a... View Details
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
example, the Geneva Steel Company in Utah or Tennessee Coal and Iron in Alabama. 28 Information on the back of each print usually identified the photographer, PR staff ordering the print, and the subject of the photograph. Captions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
keeping information private can directly harm consumers. After Los Angeles required mandatory hygiene information at restaurants, for example, hygiene rates rose and foodborne... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
officials, private companies, NGOs, financiers, and academic institutions. We discovered the complexity of solar irrigation, marked by bureaucratic challenges, limited purchasing power, and geographic variances. Additionally, we learned... View Details
- 27 May 2015
- Blog Post
What is an HBS Section?
backgrounds: section mates with in-depth finance experience from investment banking and private equity, with marketing expertise from CPG, who have successfully started and sold companies, who have served in the Navy and who are from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
where they want to leave their mark, rather than on their ability to repay loans,” said Dewey, explaining that the program is designed to meet the needs of graduating students (and recent alumni) who accept lower-paying positions in the View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Demonstration Policy | About
ensure that the research, teaching, work, and other activities of the School are able to continue without interference. While the Harvard Business School campus is largely open, it is also private property, and as such, the School has the... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
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VCPE Database Comparison
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- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
active participation of prominent African alumni, including Hakeem Belo-Osagie (HBS ’80), as well as others with expertise in the field, "Africa Rising" will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in which its past View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Backing Harvard’s Work for Children
facing adversity. A partner at Riverstone, an energy industry-focused private investment firm, Tichio is a longtime HBS supporter—most recently serving on the Major Gifts Committee for his 10th Reunion. Besides HBS, he and his wife, Maya,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
the loss of jobs in manufacturing hadn't been offset by new tradable jobs involved in the creation of ideas (for example, consulting and the development of new information technologies, nearly all service sector jobs). Spence argues in... View Details