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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

brokerage trading mainly in cotton—a product that in the United States was no longer as lucrative as it used to be—into a modern ‘house of issue,’” author Peter Chapman notes in his history of Lehman Brothers. [7] View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

business-as-usual to accelerate climate solutions. 5:45 p.m. Closing Remarks Your Role in the Climate Future Peter Tufano (MBA 1984, PHDBE 1989) Baker Foundation Professor Closing Networking Reception 6:30 p.m. Conclusion Speaker Bios... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Ineffective" (February 2018). Jill J. Avery : Overall winner of the 2019 Case Centre Awards and Competitions for “Accor: Strengthening the Brand with Digital Marketing” with Chekitan S. Dev and Peter... View Details

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Bringing Probability Judgments into Policy Debates via Forecasting Tournaments

By: Philip E. Tetlock, Barbara A. Mellers and J. Peter Scoblic

Political debates often suffer from vague-verbiage predictions that make it difficult to assess accuracy and improve policy. A tournament sponsored by the U.S. intelligence community revealed ways in which forecasters can better use probability estimates to make... View Details

Keywords: Tournaments; Politics; Depolarization; Knowledge Creation; Forecasting and Prediction; Government and Politics

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management in 2020. Sandra J. Sucher : Received the 2019–2020 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Peter Tufano : Honorary Fellow of St.... View Details

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Events - Business History

Events Events Upcoming Events Business History Seminar The Fall 2025 Business History Seminar, co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski, explores the theme "Rethinking Entrepreneurial History." The Seminar meets via Zoom on... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance, are important in reducing capital constraints. The results are further confirmed using an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven... View Details

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AASU50 - Alumni

MBA 1979 Jonathan D. Mariner, MBA 1978 Stuart A. Taylor II, MBA 1987 Pamela J. Joyner, MBA 1984 Peter C.B. Bynoe, MBA 1975 Edward Lewis, OPM 1984 Reginald Van Lee, MBA 1984 Bonita C. Stewart, MBA 1983 Keith... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “By making it possible for the photographer to observe his work and his subject matter simultaneously, and by removing... View Details

18 Dec 2014
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Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap

Advisors). Each panelist shared personal anecdotes about prior turnaround experiences, with some specifying why they currently view certain industries as more attractive than others. This portion of the event wrapped up with a presentation View Details

March 2009 (Revised January 2010)
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The Newspaper Industry in Crisis

By: David J. Collis, Peter W. Olson and Mary Furey

This note is a primer on the newspaper industry, which has been in decline in the U.S. and Western Europe. The 19th century business model whereby news and editorial content was packaged and delivered to homes daily and paid for by national advertisers has been... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business History; Newspapers; Disruptive Innovation; Consumer Behavior; Business Strategy; Internet; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry; Europe; United States

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Research Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di Maggio , Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara & Don Carmichael MAR 2022 Will the use of alternative data to assess borrowers’ creditworthiness result in broader credit access? Using administrative... View Details

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Research - Health Care

medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a... October 16, 2024... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Feasibility Drive Technological Innovation? Evaluator Expertise Range, Architectural Knowledge, and Preferences for Existing Technologies” with J. Lane, Z. Szajnfarber, J. Crusan, and M. Menietti. Himabindu... View Details

13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

steps to re-virtualize the company under his leadership. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813057-PDF-ENG Peter Jepsen Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Jim SharpeHarvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Presidents Need to be Able to Do Nothing. Donald Trump Can't Do It.

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Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA's Office of National Estimates

By: J. Peter Scoblic

Would-be forecasters have increasingly extolled the predictive potential of Big Data and artificial intelligence. This essay reviews the career of Sherman Kent, the Yale historian who directed the CIA’s Office of National Estimates from 1952 to 1967, with an eye toward... View Details

Keywords: National Security; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; History

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