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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
Then, reciting the Hebrew from memory and rendering his own translation of the words that Rabbi Hillel wrote two thousand years ago, Feurstein said: "Not all those who make a fortune in business are wise in God's eyes. To be wise in God's... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
outcomes, as well as their influences on macroeconomic policy design and performance. Moreover, it demonstrates how institutional differences across countries ultimately rest in differences in norms and beliefs, and explores how changes in the environment can View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
governs disputes between foreign investors and host governments. First is the inconsistency of the decisions rendered by arbitration panels established under bilateral investment treaties, investment provisions of regional trade... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
"that's where we have a distinct advantage." For Tazartes and his colleagues, in fact, the demand for the services they render has never been greater, as governments privatize state-run operations and companies consolidate in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rendered uneconomic by high Israeli costs. At the same time, Israeli firms in industries that have been local, such as most services, can use alliances to begin trade and foreign investment. Any loss of lower-wage job opportunities for... View Details
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering many legal protections futile.... View Details
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
Consumers do not bounce from doctor to doctor nearly as often and therefore lack comparative expertise. In many cases, they develop relationships with their caregivers that render their reviews idiosyncratic. 6. Fear of Reprisal. Hotel... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
under fire. Among the reasons were lack of demand from existing customers (not always the best ones to ask) for disruptive technologies and the kiss of death for new ideas in large organizations; the fear among business unit managers that they and their businesses... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Program Policies - HBS Online
answers. Participants are required to follow the HBS Online Academic Honesty Guidelines . Skipping questions by providing cursory responses or simply entering filler text is considered incomplete participation in the Program and will View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
rendered the expropriation option quite unattractive since it would hurt diverse parties on whom Chile would rely in the future. At the same time, Kennecott's proposal for a larger mine with majority Chilean ownership addressed Chile's... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
the arguments on both sides and render a decision. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708032 Fiyta—The Case of a Chinese Watch Company Harvard Business School Case 308-025 Fiyta had long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
What Google, Lego, and Other Brands Know About the Promise and Peril of AI | Working Knowledge
Ikea Kreativ, the design app, has used AI to scan customers’ rooms and show virtual renderings of the company’s furniture in their homes. This technology aimed to tackle one of retail’s biggest challenges: helping shoppers see how... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
information. They then distributed a set of three project successes and three failures to a group of individuals that had previously judged for organizations like the NEA and other funding bodies. "The idea was quite simple: to render the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Recreation
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign-debt models, asset-valuation effects occasioned by currency fluctuations act to absorb global shocks and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
million toward Vectograph production and established the Polaroid War School where more than fifteen hundred military personnel learned how to make Vectographs. Early applications of the process at Guadalcanal rendered details of... View Details
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1.7 Grading | MBA
APC within three months of the last day of classes of the term during which the "No Credit" determination was made. The APC will render a final decision after reviewing the instructor's initial determination and after obtaining any... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
plants. If fuel for backup diesel generators were to run out, such as might happen if a prolonged power outage rendered fuel resupply impossible, the water in the spent fuel pools would boil off and cause the fuel rods to catch fire.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
called a "true credit crunch," rendering capital scarce, new companies need to look more seriously at outsourcing. "Money was so easy [that small companies] could own and employ everything they need," he said. Instead,... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
admission by Alan Greenspan that markets acted in ways he had not anticipated? The work shares several common counter-intuitive conclusions that: (1) human behavior is much less rational than has been assumed, (2) this renders much of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett