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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
Analytics course helped to demystify statistics for me, rendering the subject matter approachable and appealing. The fabulous visualizations and graphics, combined with relevant and interesting case studies, brought the concepts to life... View Details
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Events - Business History
population still living and laboring in such locations, we sought to decenter the city and metropole and problematize progress narratives that render capitalist and urban formations inevitable. Proceeding outward from any world region, we... View Details
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
trade, John Heard explained, “The opium business is the best business we have, not only from the direct, but for the collateral profit it induces. It also affords an excellent vent for exchange from America, rendering us independent of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
down; that's good for the consumer's pocketbook as well as for those industries benefiting from low-priced materials or commodities. In addition, overcapacity often springs from innovation - an improved product muscles into the market alongside previous versions, now... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
Internet service. The space also houses some historical treasures for the School, including the Written Analysis of Cases slot; the Baker 20 case distribution center; a rendering of the original Baker Library stacks and grille; and an... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
these trends impact social costs so favorably that they could render dependency ratios largely meaningless? What do you think? Original Article Without knowing it, we have already heard a great deal about "dependency ratios." We... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
the cheese as it matures: It can sweat, it can form bubbles, or, worst of all, it can swell so much that it cracks. Every flaw lowers the value of the cheese, regardless of the going market rate. Too many cracks will render a cheese wheel... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
empirical data confirms the presence of this effect but does not indicate that it renders export-driven growth strategies infeasible (Wood/Mayer, 2009). Overall, the discussion remains far from having reached a consensus. At the minimum,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
raise awareness of the gender imbalance in unpaid labor and aspire to improve shared parental leave policy. Vyechi Low Harvard MS/MBA Student, Class of 2021 Here I am hauling my bike down a mountain. My derailleur had broke, causing me to fall hard, twice, and View Details
- Portrait Project
Charles Duhigg
eyes. I'm initially untrusting. I probe the corners to test if it's true. And then, as relief finally settles in, I greedily peer around a world in perfect focus. For a few minutes, before minutiae renders me sightless again, I see... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
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New Building Takes Shape
contain 170 bedrooms, gathering areas, staff offices, and an interior courtyard. Below is a construction photo taken this winter; at right, a rendering of the completed building by architects CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares, Inc. View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Welcome to the Future
reconfigured (as in the rendering below of Batten’s second floor) to accommodate large group discussions or small-team collaborations, with the professor presiding from the center of the oval classroom. Each hive is slightly different in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Damir Ljuboja
the air. Room by room, I surveyed the wards with my supervisor. Some housed patients like Marko*, whose skin infection would resolve in a few days. He perked up, grinning as we entered. Others were home to patients like Sukrija*, whose limp body was now View Details
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Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
of Frank Seely’s rendering of the Continental Bakery’s wrapping and slicing machine, the photographer fused together elements of abstraction and industry to form a metaphor for corporate success. The sharp streaming lines of the conveyor... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Running on empty
Week (June 29, 1999), using $10,000 in savings and working in a partner's garage, Hubbard discovered a way to remove the volatile elements from gasoline. Rendered inert and nonflammable, the resulting liquid product - dubbed "SpareTank" -... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
Microsystems, is a futurist who had it right: ‘Privacy? Get over it!” Did Scott McNeely have a point? Has the issue been rendered moot by the very nature of information technology itself and the possibility that developers of security... View Details
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Amer M. Lahham
till the end. It has been a long journey from my Catholic school podium to this magnificent hilltop. I learned that Palestinians should live for Palestine, not die. My mission was one of demolishing mistrust, of rendering the struggle for... View Details