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Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity

By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber and Daniel Yamins

World models are self-supervised predictive models of how the world evolves. Humans learn world models by curiously exploring their environment, in the process acquiring compact abstractions of high bandwidth sensory inputs, the ability to plan across long temporal... View Details

Keywords: World Models; Mathematical Methods

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March 2020 (Revised March 2024)
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CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain

The case discusses the strategy of CIAM, a French activist investment firm, involved in a case of a buy-out of minority shareholders in the telecommunications sector. Altice NV, an international telecommunications company based in the Netherlands that owned more than... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Private Equity; Strategy; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Services Industry; France

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Veterans & Active Military | MBA

Veterans & Active Military External Funding For Veterans Yellow Ribbon Program Harvard Business School (HBS) will contribute $20,000 per year to each eligible veteran, which is matched by the VA for a total of $40,000. For further... View Details

14 Sep 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity

Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & William R. Kerr

September 2020
Teaching Note

Employee Activism (A) and (B)

By: Ethan Rouen

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March 2014
Module Note

Fundamental Analysis for Active Investing

By: Suraj Srinivasan

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Africa - Global Activities 2020

Africa Africa Fellowship Enables Alumni to Accelerate Economic Growth in Africa Pictured: Peak Investment Capital in Ghana works with companies such as Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt to help further their success in Africa. Although Tuyee Yeboah (MBA 2018) and Ike Kyei (MBA... View Details

October 2006 (Revised February 2009)
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Spyder Active Sports - 2004 (TN)

By: Belen Villalonga and Dwight B. Crane

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Keywords: Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry

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Energy Taxes and Aggregate Economic Activity

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Michael Woodford

Keywords: Taxation; Economics

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

Asia Pacific Asia Pacific Marking Ten-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region Pictured: Professor of Management Practice Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual gathering in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a... View Details

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2020

Asia Pacific Spanning China and Southeast Asia to Indonesia and Japan, the School’s Asia-Pacific research outposts further faculty scholarship, support MBA and Executive Education programming, and develop opportunities for local alumni to connect with each other and... View Details

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

the city’s Mental Health Co-Response Partnership, as well as with Andrea Smith, director of Workforce Training & Program Development at DWIHN. Her role as senior advisor in the Detroit Mayor’s office is Mendu’s first experience in municipal government, but she has... View Details

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Europe - Global Activities 2020

When first exploring the region, the research team envisioned a case focused simply on economic activity in the landlocked country. Upon talking to leaders in the government, business, social, and academic sectors, it became clear,... View Details

20 Aug 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Michael Schor; Banking

October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
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La Roche-Posay: Growing L'Oreal's Active Cosmetics Brand

By: Jill Avery, Vincent Dessain and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej

As 2018 neared its end, Laetitia Toupet, international general manager of L’Oréal’s La Roche-Posay brand reflected on the brand’s achievements over the past year. At €1 billion in revenue, La Roche-Posay had recently become the number one dermocosmetics brand in the... View Details

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03 Apr 2016
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The Power of C.E.O. Activism

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Israel - Global Activities 2021

Israel Israel Addressing Water Scarcity with Precision Irrigation Pictured: Drip irrigation funnels water and nutrients directly to the root zones of plants and the slow flow ensures uniform delivery. With climate change making water scarcity an increasingly pressing... View Details

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Europe - Global Activities 2021

Europe Europe Job-Matching Platforms Address the Refugee Crisis Pictured: The European refugee crisis continues to escalate—between 2011 and 2019 alone, more than 6 million people applied for asylum in the European Union. The assignment in the spring 2020 MBA elective... View Details

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Israel - Global Activities 2020

Israel Israel Leading Bank Leumi into the Future Pictured: Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, former CEO of Bank Leumi How does a leader innovate in a setting where traditional business is working well? For Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, former CEO of Bank Leumi (2012–2019), one of... View Details

December 2022
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Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?

By: Jonas Heese

I study whether industry employment of active regulators weakens oversight. To examine this question, I exploit that the Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (FREP), the German capital-market regulator responsible for enforcing public firms’ compliance with accounting... View Details

Keywords: Conflict-of-interest Policies; Directorships; Enforcement Actions; Industry Employment; Self-regulatory Organizations; Governance Compliance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Conflict of Interests