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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

positions are ineligible for GO Fellowship awards: Part-time, term, temporary, contract or volunteer roles. A position with job responsibilities that are determined to be sectarian by the Review Committee.... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

with how employees are motivated than the actual consequences they receive. Motivation is important in business for one reason: In the contract between employers and employees,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

Careers Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work Careers Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work Taking a step back is common, but there are plenty of avenues to help you return to the workforce. Explore some of the reasons... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

voice of the impartial spectator. With my coauthors I applied this framework to designing a savings product for a bank in the Philippines that helps clients act in line with their long-term interests. In... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

things by seeing the abuses. In the United States in particular, there are all sorts of labor contracts that appear not to be legal. The 13th... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • April 2020 (Revised June 2020)
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Oriental Land Co., Ltd.—Tokyo Disney Resort

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Akiko Kanno
This case describes the history of Oriental Land Co. Ltd.’s (OLC's) Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR), its operations, the extent of vertical integration, and the challenges it faced in 2018 as OLC's chairman and CEO, Toshio Kagami, contemplated how best to deal with... View Details
Keywords: Strategy For Multi-business Firm; Business Models; Growth; Theme Parks; Disney; Disney Parks; Licensing; Royalties; Two-part Tariffs; Oriental Land Co.; Tokyo Disneyland; Tokyo DisneySea; Tokyo Disney Resort; Tokyo Disney; Growth Strategy; Hotels; Hotel Industry; Partnership; Development; Attractions; Rides; Urayasu; Kagami; Congestion; Pricing; Amusement Parks; Amusement Park Industry; Brand; Branding; History; OLC; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business History; Price; Retention; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Operations; Vertical Integration; Problems and Challenges; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Expansion; Rail Transportation; Transportation Networks; Accommodations Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Tourism Industry; Asia; Japan; Tokyo; United States
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A Commitment to Sustainability | About

Solid Waste is the trash hauled from buildings from typical campus operations. It does not include construction waste, recycling, electronic waste, waste disposed of as part of contracted services, or... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a... View Details
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Events - Business History

Event Vanessa Ogle, Berkeley Nov 2 02 Nov 2020 Business History Seminar Codifying Credit: Everyday Contracting and the Spread of the Civil Code in Nineteenth-Century Mexico... View Details
  • February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
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KangaTech

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Technology Commercialization; Prototype; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Health; Commercialization; Research and Development; Decision Making; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Health Industry; Australia
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  • August 2023 (Revised February 2024)
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DexAI

By: Jo Tango and Christina Wallace
During a challenging fundraising environment, the DexAI founders received two term sheets with nearly identical economic terms but very different legal ones. The entrepreneurs had to navigate: representations and warranties (their personal guarantees that the company's... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital Term Sheet; Term Sheet; Term Sheets; Founders; Legal Aspects Of Business; Seed Financing; Founders' Agreements; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Intellectual Property; Entrepreneurial Finance; Contracts; Business Startups; Agreements and Arrangements
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

credit extended to private sector firms. See Sam’s other research here , Jeremy’s other research here , Adi’s other research here , and Eric’s other research here . More Info Large banks and small firm lending By: Victoria Ivashina & Vitaly Bord OCT 2021 View Details
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

state that you can make it only if the other party agrees to make a specified concession in return. For example, if the executive was renegotiating a service contract with a... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

By: Anita Elberse and Melissa Rodman
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) develops and presents scripted hero-versus-villain storylines featuring its wrestlers at hundreds of live events—on several weekly television shows, on its own over-the-top streaming service, and on social media—to millions of... View Details
Keywords: Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; Labor Economics; General Management; Entertainment; Sports; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Contracts; Marketing; Strategy
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  • 01 Jun 2024
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Again and Again

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
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Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America
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  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

persuade staff members that hedging both securities and commodities contracts was an acceptable investment strategy and not mere speculation. Eventually, we succeeded in registering with the SEC and 37 US... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social enterprises and the challenges of measuring social impact, our faculty have developed a body of... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

"Excess of everything is bad it always relates to the matter in point (for example) getting big data about our customers and focusing too deeply on it will lead to not noticing other important facets However, while finalizing a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Options: Basics for finding price data

An option is a financial derivative contract that essentially bestows the right to buy (call) or sell (put) a given security at a specified price (the strike or exercise price) at (or before) a specified... View Details