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- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
students, and achieve top-quality research. Publisher Link: http://www.amazon.com/Building-World-Class-Universities-Asia/dp/1453707778 The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed Authors:Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher Publication:John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
competing against nonconsumption, Sony set a very low technical hurdle for itself: The product just had to be better than nothing in order to find delighted consumers. The second type of disruptive innovation takes root among an... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
2010 terms, as a share of national income) were scheduled to revert to Colombian ownership in that year. The money to buy them for the new canal effort, then, would have gone to Bogotá instead of the shareholders in the moribund French... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common ordering strategies: shortest expected processing time and batching similar cases. Choosing the shortest tasks first is particularly detrimental for speed. Batching is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
and key players involved, interpret metrics to analyze performance, and discuss trends in alternatives. Highlights The Money Journey Part 1 Complementarity PFA Pension: Strategy 2020 Show Hide Details Concepts The View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial performance Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits and why that matters for your business and budget Identify ways to create and measure value... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
ask the Japanese, the Chinese, and some others for their goods, and they give them to us. And then they lend us the money to buy them. We are both borrowing—literally borrowing in financial terms from, particularly, the Asians—and getting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
conscience into a professional field. Order article at Harvard Business Online This article is also available in the book On Competition . Feb 2002 Center for Effective Philanthropy Foundation Performance Metrics Pilot Study Toward a... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
AI-powered, genetic insights. Sanso Narek Dshkhunyan (MBA 2024) Daniel Erdosy Business Track Runner-Up We help drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide.... View Details
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Events - Business History
(Read the full publisher’s description .) Learn more about the book at deeplyresponsible.com . Deeply Responsible Business is now available! You can order the book at Harvard University Press , Amazon , Bookshop , Barnes and Noble , and... View Details
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
learned that one of them, picked at random, would receive $200—a significant windfall for the average student. In each session, the winner took the money and left the room. And just like that, the rest of the participants were left with a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions and thus waste money, and/or underspend in others, leaving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
available to researchers do not contain sufficient information to conduct the kinds of analyses we have demonstrated here. So if we want to move beyond the US in studying inequalities, similar high-quality data from other countries needs to be made publicly available... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
mainframe computer, and made the requested transactions. Playing a small role in the front lines of money management was the perfect introduction for her career leading one of the nation’s top investment firms. “It is important to figure... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
to be eligible for a GO Fellowship, your venture must meet the following limitations for total capital raised/invested equity/debt: Graduating student applicant: may not have raised more than $1,500,000 USD Alumni applicant: may not have raised more than $2,500,000 USD... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
items in order to complete a so-called “Global Survival Kit”—in other words, a pseudo-set. This page had a globe on it, too, but instead of location markers, it featured a line that grew closer to circumnavigating the globe each time an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Appex’s revenues exceeded $100 million with an order backlog of over $1 billion. It was selected by Business week as the fastest growing private company in the US. Shikhar founded Open Market in 1993. Open Market was one of the pioneering... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
Yet amid all these measures of customer success, some companies lose sight of the ultimate objective: to make a profit from selling products and services. In their zeal to delight customers, these companies actually lose money with them.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
Frances X. Frei, UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Too often, people are advised or feel pressured to bury the special or quirky aspects of their personalities, recalibrate their speaking or personal styles, or think twice about sharing honest opinions at... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette