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03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

exit is an option? Using a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs, we examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on a cluster of attitudes of Syrian refugees in Turkey related to their personal security,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

gamer, the coder, the hacker—all stereotypically male. Recent statistics give some truth to that image. In 2014, Google reported that 7 out of every 10 of its then 48,600 employees were men. The number was even higher among its engineers... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing home page, and with new offerings for advertisers and affiliates as well as video... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

learners to draw on data from multiple financial statements, learners should also be comfortable writing formulas that reference cells from different spreadsheet tabs. Can the spreadsheet exercises be completed using Apple Numbers, Google... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

of trying to go for those home runs all the time and the next Google or the next Facebook, you know, you can certainly make great returns when you go for singles and doubles. And we've seen that by having a... View Details

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209113 The Home Depot: Leadership in Crisis Management Harvard Business School Case 309-055 Examines the challenges The Home Depot faced in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

cases and then making it very intuitive and simple, like the original Google home page. I think a lot of the innovation today is around trying to understand the core consumer-use cases and the needs that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

you think about what happiness is? Neil Pasricha: You know, happiness is a really big, gigantic word. It is-- it's funny, if you go to Google and you type in "how to be" the first dropdown in the suggestions is "happy." People are typing... View Details

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue growth rates or profit... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed by... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

receive a portion for their local medical personnel. Following that initial publicity, requests came in from organizations including the Cleveland Clinic, the City of Boston, rural police departments in Ohio, and nursing homes housing... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

later an escape for actor Marlon Brando, the islands are now home to a Pacific Beachcomber resort. Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece by Edward S. Barnard (PMD 32) and Neil Calvanese (Columbia Univ.... View Details

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Administration Grading will be based on participation and a take home final (50/50) Copyright © 2025 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. Innovating in Health Care Course Number 2185 Nancy R. McPherson Professor... View Details

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