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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
There can be long dry spells when nothing seems to go right, and bumpy paths whether unexpected obstacles loom. But advanced leaders get through it and thereby product new models for the world. Richard Fahey wanted to bring affordable View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
age after World War II, the firm supported established companies like IBM (International Business Machines) as well as emerging enterprises such as DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), which produced a second generation of less expensive, compact computers for business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
center her, she says. Later on she made elaborate mix-tapes, borrowing tracks from her mother’s record collection (Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Hall & Oates, and Billie Holiday), grabbing new songs off the radio, and adding her own View Details
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Research Design - Impact Investments
impact investing, our team has drawn upon several established resources, including: the Community Development Venture Capital Association (CDVCA), ImpactAssets, ImpactBase, and Preqin’s alternative assets database. We have further used... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
between customer and brand Fung sees as key to business success in a Web3 world—and more than 4,000 participated in a virtual event during Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals. Fung herself came to the Web3 space from the fintech sector. In her time at Alto IRA,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
of China.” "It’s perhaps evidence that sanity still prevails in the business world." Before proceeding, I should insert a disclaimer. I was a member of a group of about a hundred faculty members called the Committee for Alternatives at... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
innovation problem of your own choosing, or a provided scenario 6-7 hrs Module 3 Content Week - Ideate, Part 1: Tools for Generating Ideas Develop design principles to create user-focused ideas, experiment with ideation tools, and explore different ideation approaches,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
difficult to attract to the public sector, especially with the salary constraints typical of civil services. Accordingly, if the government decides to manage the activity, it may also, through various methods, have to take steps to obtain the appropriate skills from... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
d.light
By: Michael Chu, Krishna G. Palepu and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
Kenyan off-grid-solar pioneer d.light can power entire homes in rural Africa but must now decide how to fund the growth of its asset-heavy business model. Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded d.light in 2006 to transform lives through solar solutions enabling access to... View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Business Model; Capital; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Renewable Energy; Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship; Energy Industry; Africa; Kenya; India
Chu, Michael, Krishna G. Palepu, and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha. "d.light." Harvard Business School Case 321-069, September 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Transitions, 1800-2013 Notes: Definitions based on criteria such as executive recruitment, constraints on executive authority, and political competition. "Anocracy"= mixed, or incoherent, authority regime â œDemocracyâ = 1. citizens can express effective preferences... View Details
- 17 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure
Keywords: by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle
By: Anette Mikes
Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49779 BATNAs in Negotiation: Common Errors and Three Kinds of 'No' By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—The Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement (“BATNA”) concept in negotiation has proved... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- August 2019
- Article
When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation
By: Yicheng Song, Nachiketa Sahoo and Elie Ofek
Sometimes we desire change, a break from the same or an opportunity to fulfill different aspects of our needs. Noting that consumers seek variety, several approaches have been developed to diversify items recommended by personalized recommender systems. However,... View Details
Keywords: Recommender Systems; Personalization; Recommendation Diversity; Variety Seeking; Collaborative Filtering; Consumer Utility Models; Digital Media; Clickstream Analysis; Learning-to-rank; Consumer Behavior; Media; Customization and Personalization; Strategy; Mathematical Methods
Song, Yicheng, Nachiketa Sahoo, and Elie Ofek. "When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation." Management Science 65, no. 8 (August 2019): 3737–3757.
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
think about an alternative approach where there's more room for newcomers' self-expression, Gino says. "This is a pivotal stage of the employee/employer relationship, and there are ways to emphasize people's individuality so they can... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
there's in fact no alternative to foreigners buying our assets, either debt or equity. As I said, if you're earning $100,000 and you're spending $106,000, you're going to have to borrow or draw down your assets to make up the difference.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
compete with the (now improved) remote and digital alternatives that have emerged. The surging demand for risk mitigation also has implications for policymakers. Greater use of robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation will put... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
we didn't know, and what our research suggests, is that stress may also contribute to a social disease—namely, unethical behavior. Thus, the trick is to figure out ways to reduce stress. If we can substitute an alternative to cheating... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity” ( Journal of Financial Economics , January 2022) with Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang. Emily R. McComb :... View Details
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details