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  • 25 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

fintech lenders harvest deeper insight into those borrowers that banks typically reject after running a standard credit check. Fintech lenders claim to consult additional metrics like utility bills or rent payments to identify... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • July 1990 (Revised October 1999)
  • Case

Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A)

By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
In 1989, the performance measurement systems and compensation policies of Nordstrom Department Stores unexpectedly came under attack by employees, unions, and government regulators. The case describes the "sales-per-hour" monitoring and compensation system that many... View Details
Keywords: Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Labor Unions; Salesforce Management; Retention; Growth and Development; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry
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  • 08 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

used firm size as a proxy for reputation and utilized uniqueness and political slant indices to account for other company characteristics. The study did not take into account costs or any discounts or marketing efforts targeting new... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting
  • Web

CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

chemical pulp, utilizes planted eucalyptus trees and integration of native habitat to dramatically reduce the land required in wood fiber cultivation. The company also encourages small-scale producers nears its mills - which contribute... View Details
  • Web

Logging In - Research Computing Services

"Resize remote screen" and click "Done" twice. For more details about configuring your display you may refer to the NoMachine documentation . The Grid runs the Gnome desktop and includes "Tweak Tool", a configuration utility for... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview of Research

My research examines approaches to improving the performance of our health care delivery system with a primary focus on health information technology. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of my program, my dissertation draws upon theories and insights from... View Details

    The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million

    The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details

    • 2020
    • Chapter

    Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective

    By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing... View Details
    Keywords: Business Groups; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government and Politics; History; Religion; Business History; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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    Online Management Course | HBS Online

    Change at Fuerte Construction Featured Exercises Small group process analysis Peer feedback exercise 10-12 hrs Module 2 Shaping the Decision-Making Process Analyze the decision-making process and evaluate potential drivers and pitfalls. View Details
    • 07 May 2024
    • Blog Post

    Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

    and renovation practices. HBS has installed solar PV* and solar thermal along with green roofs on many of our buildings. (*Note: SRECs, which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet State Renewable... View Details
    • Web

    HBS - Key Metrics

    electricity from the grid, electricity from our solar panels (solar renewable energy credits [SRECs], which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet its state renewable energy requirements), natural gas... View Details
    • November 2018
    • Case

    Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
    Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation and liberalization of the European energy market. With 41 connections to other European... View Details
    Keywords: Enterprise Risk Management; Energy Transmission; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Energy; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Switzerland
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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

    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    New Urban Order

    electrification—from the car manufacturers and utility companies to government agencies and the public, who often have a say in where and how charging locations are implemented. An ongoing partnership with GM, for example, is enabling... View Details
    Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities
    • 02 Mar 2016
    • News

    David Moss is Rewriting History

    course began, in part, as another test of the utility of the case method—could it work for a younger undergraduate audience, unfamiliar with the case method, and for a broader historical topic? Now in its third year, the hybrid... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • Research Summary

    Platform Competition

    Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

    • February 2022
    • Case

    NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

    By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
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    • 14 Oct 2021
    • In Practice

    Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

    a work-from-home regime to WFA. Beyond improved productivity (under some conditions), WFA might enable companies to hire beyond their local labor markets and reduce real estate and utilities costs. As companies grapple with workers... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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    Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

    or you may be able to use the GNU Screen or tmux utility to prevent the termination of a session when you disconnect (e.g. closing your terminal or closing your laptop). Both are already installed on the compute grid, and brief tutorials... View Details