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Eric Chavez

built his own commercial contracting business. “My parents came here to have a prosperous future they wouldn’t have otherwise in Mexico,” Eric says. Eric’s initial calling was in engineering. Through work at General Motors and an... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

capital-intensive business, and it's important to consider how one's money is obtained. "There are many different funding options, from syndicates to institutions, and there are benefits and drawbacks to all of them." Palandjian suggested that the overriding... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

24 Oct 2018
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Exploring the Future of Work for Women

Countries. Khanna, who has been exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the economic and social development of emerging markets, described the critical need to establish trust when launching a business in developing countries, where typical legal or social View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

after they've contracted an illness, compared with public health's cost-effective preventive approach. I realized that public health is all about policies, systems, and distribution on a wide scale. As an investor, I could see huge... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

March 1999 (Revised November 2001)
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Honda-Rover (C): "The Sting"

By: Ashish Nanda, James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Knowledge Sharing; Strategy; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Auto Industry; United Kingdom

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public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries, and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and cost... View Details

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contracts or IRB documentation that impact your use of the RCP and the data therein (relevant policies can be found here ). You will only access the RCP through authorized interfaces. An authorized interface is defined as a workstation or... View Details

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

ethnography of serial migration in Dubai focusing on motherhood, work, and movement (under contract with Columbia University Press). She has received fellowships from the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), The... View Details

January 2010
Teaching Note

Transforming ASUSTeK: Breaking from the Past (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

Teaching Note for [610041]. View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Transformation; Contracts; Production; Product Design; Customers; Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Value; Performance Effectiveness; Brands and Branding; Disruptive Innovation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry

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27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

people likely contracted the virus several days (and up to two weeks) before showing symptoms and, thus, would have been in contact with other people (solid line in Figure 1), unknowingly spreading the virus. Quarantining an infected... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand for its final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions that constrain demand. We suggest... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

by Talent Alpha, which appears to act as an agency. Therefore the client has to have a decent process to manage remote programmers, bring them into project teams, and test and integrate their code. Perhaps the early contracts will put the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

bulk rental contract and the unit economics work, then you likely have PMF, and it probably makes sense to purchase the inventory required to service these bulk rental contracts. —Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009) Got a case? To take part in a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

19 Jun 2014
News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Sep 2003
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

Interactive was contracted in the Spring to provide a series of useful administrative tools including data updates, membership renewal, event management and web templates. Thanks to the work of this committee, clubs and associations of... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business

no conservation staff or lab to perform the work, so documents in need of treatment had to be sent to contract conservators. But that changed with the renovation and expansion of Baker | Bloomberg, completed in the fall of 2005. With... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go

market often lacks one or more core infrastructure elements, such as a supply of trained business professionals, liquid stock exchanges, predictable contract enforcement, or quality service providers for auxiliary needs like printing and... View Details

06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

Marquee Prospect Plays Hardball (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-010 Describes the hardball tactics facing Peter Welz, who seeks to negotiate a make-or-break contract with a vastly larger potential client. Welz's counterpart team is... View Details