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Private Capital Project

the strategic use of private capital is inextricably tied to Harvard Business School. The first modern PE fund, American Research and Development, was designed and led by Professor Georges Doriot in the years after World War II at HBS.... View Details
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Spangler Center | About

daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA 1988) and Abigail Riggs Spangler. Dick Spangler was a successful entrepreneur in several industries, including construction, hospitality, and banking. In the early 1980s, he led the merger of Bank of... View Details
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Teacher Workshops - Case Method Project

About Teacher Workshops 2ms Each fall, the Case Method Project hosts a workshop at Harvard Business School for high-school teachers interested in how to implement the case method in their classrooms. Teachers participate in case discussions View Details
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About - Entrepreneurship

led by faculty co-chairs Julia Austin and Shikhar Ghosh. Advisory Board A talented group of faculty and alumni form a supportive and insightful advisory board. In The News 12 Nov 2024 HBS Working Knowledge Inside One Startup's Journey to... View Details
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California - Global

Allison worked in the Goldman Sachs Investment Management Division. She later led Process Improvement efforts in the Finance Group at Invitrogen (now Life Technologies). Most recently, Allison was a VP for Investments at Pacific Corporate... View Details
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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

addressed. HOW TO CREATE A PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE ORGANIZATION Professor Edmondson’s research led her to develop a Leadership Toolkit to help organizations achieve psychological safety. The three critical elements of that toolkit are... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy

  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

technology. ” The relentless adoption of these technologies, which in the last couple of years has been vastly accelerated by the global outbreak of COVID-19 and its related lockdowns in several regions of the world, has led to a massive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
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People Are Experience Goods: Improving Online Dating with Virtual Dates

Because internet search mechanisms are designed for finding searchable items, we tend to conceptualize the things we seek online in terms of their objective characteristics. For some pursuits, however, this illuminates a mismatch between processes and goals. In online... View Details
  • June 2022
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Michelin’s Green Gold Bahia Program: Leaving With Grace

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Susan J. Winterberg
In 2015, the top management of French tire-maker Michelin, was evaluating Michelin’s approach to divesting its rubber plantations ten years after incorporating a novel strategy.
In 2004, Michelin had a Brazilian rubber challenge. Its Bahía plantation had been hit... View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Supply Chain Management; Natural Resources; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Rubber Industry; Auto Industry; Brazil; France
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  • April 2022
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Demand Interactions in Sharing Economies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Airbnb and Uber/Lyft

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Dokyun Lee, Param Singh and Tridas Mukhopadhyay
We examine whether and how ride-sharing services influence the demand for home-sharing services. Our identification strategy hinges on a natural experiment in which Uber/Lyft exited Austin, Texas, in May 2016 due to local regulation. Using a 12-month longitudinal... View Details
Keywords: Airbnb; Uber; Natural Experiment; Geographic Demand Dispersion; Sharing Economy; Transportation; Demand and Consumers; Geographic Scope
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  • February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
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Priceline WebHouse Club

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
Priceline empowered consumers to "name their own price" for airline tickets and hotel rooms; then it shopped these offers to marketers. Priceline's founder Jay Walker described the resulting transactions as a new ecosystem, that helped consumers realize lower prices... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Retail Industry
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  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

ideal. But there were actually many silver linings. Among the biggest was the extended time I was lucky to spend on Zoom with industry leaders over those years. What’s a typical day like for you at Forby Entertainment? It varies greatly. Always a mixture of creative... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 01 Nov 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja & Brian Wendell
  • Research Summary

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

By: Laura Alfaro
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

LASH Risk and Interest Rates

By: Laura Alfaro, Saleem Bahaj, Robert Czech, Jonathan Hazell and Ioana Neamtu
We introduce a framework to understand and quantify a form of liquidity risk that we dub Liquidity After Solvency Hedging or “LASH” risk. Financial institutions take LASH risk when they hedge against losses, using strategies that lead to liquidity needs when the value... View Details
Keywords: Liquidity; Monetary Policy; Non-bank Intermediaries; Hedging; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Funds; Financial Condition; Interest Rates
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  • April 2019
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Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
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Highways and Spatial Location within Cities: Evidence from India

By: Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R. Kerr
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the spatial organization and efficiency of manufacturing activity. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 3,633 miles of road in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation... View Details
Keywords: Infrastructure; Transportation; India
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
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