Values - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2001
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Extracting Information from the Futures and Forwards Markets: The Relation between Spot Prices, Forward Prices and Expected Future Spot Prices

Discounted cash flow valuation calls for using expected future prices of inputs or outputs. This case describes the relationship between spot prices, forward/future prices, and expected future prices. Knowing current forward and future prices alone is not enough to... View Details

Keywords: Price; Cash Flow; Valuation; Futures and Commodity Futures

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Business and Geopolitics - Course Catalog

including how they impact bilateral relationships, contribute to power shifts, and act as vectors for the promotion of values and ideologies. The course will consist of three modules. The first will look at historical examples of firms... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Selling Digital Privacy

companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and get something of value in return. Deighton’s recent working paper, “Market Solutions to Privacy Problems?,” suggests that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

To create synergy, we require more than a concept and a strategy. The enterprise value proposition defines the strategy for value creation through alignment, but it doesn't describe how to achieve it. The... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

25 Sep 2000
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More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

whole system. In effect, each module was free to evolve along its own trajectory. By accommodating unforeseen, after-the-fact improvements, the modular approach unleashed value for the system as a whole. At the request of Working... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of self-employment relative to pay in a single year. This paper... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information Authors:Victoria... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

both results. What’s missing in this debate is a deeper understanding of how value is created, and how it benefits all stakeholders in society—especially shareholders. “Does this make Larry Fink a socialist? Hardly. In fact, Fink is one... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

21 May 2001
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From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

and by extension with their entire staff. What they have in mind for management, they say, is a "new moral contract" that explicitly chooses value creation over the zero-sum game of value appropriation.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Farah Ahmed

feel that HBS is training you for future high-level positions." As part of her informal training, Farah serves as her section’s Leadership and Values representative, and as vice president of the Women Students Association’s... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Manufacturing/Energy

01 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Reflections on the Peek Weekend Family Business Cohort

lingering interest in business that had been instilled in us at an early age, and we were all eager to learn. During case discussions, I was frequently surprised by how much value was added to the conversation every time someone drew on... View Details

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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

industry and intelligence required of the American working man,” Davenport wrote, “perhaps our students could learn to look upon the working man with some degree of respect and sympathetic consideration.” This was an archive that Ayres and Davenport envisioned as... View Details

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Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference. While... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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The Difference Fellowships Make

are imaginable: showing appreciation for having received a fellowship themselves, honoring someone who played a key role in their lives, or celebrating the educational value of diversity, for example. In addition to enabling HBS to admit... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore

appreciation of his Harvard stint is one reason why he is helping HBS prepare a case study on PSA. “To learn from the experience of major companies and understand how managers tackle problems can be extremely rewarding,” Khoo explains. “That kind of View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Transportation

01 Mar 2014
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Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

sectors that create value for society." Today, the SEI and the 97 faculty affiliated with the initiative connect with communities worldwide. Faculty research spans the examination of the needs of the 4.5 billion members of society living... View Details

Keywords: SEI

01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future

there are the intangibles. Alumni care deeply about the School’s brand and image in the world, which of course are shaped in part by the thousands of alumni who bear the School’s credentials. The value of those credentials is in turn... View Details

Keywords: Ann Kelly

27 Jan 2011
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The Joys of Cooking

and the value of nutrition. As the La Jolla Light noted (November 11, 2010), Kasrai’s program is now in more than 30 schools and community centers in San Diego County. Most recently, Kasrai has partnered with SieMatic of Germany, Subzero,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

value is created and captured in the economy One critical change: You have your direct labor, and also your indirect labor through the data generated by your work. The value of labor shifts from renting... View Details

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