Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2024
News

Basket Chase

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details

02 Oct 2017
News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

and you know, financial obligations and concerns of your own. And I just wonder, can you give us a window into maybe a struggle you've gone through or are going through now in terms of giving? Because it seems to me the thing about giving is where's the View Details

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) was born in Detroit, the first in his family to graduate from college. His Dad was a Chrysler factory worker whose schooling ended in fifth... View Details

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

goes, ‘Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.’ So, if time is of the essence, how to best think and frame the problems we need to solve with our teams to survive this crisis? What is sequence of those... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

a plan to curb foreign tax havens and end tax breaks for "companies that ship jobs overseas" in May, 2009.) One heated issue is the charge that the U.S. tax code provides incentives for companies to ship jobs overseas. It's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
News

Conducting Business

music from this out-of-tune orchestra. Every day was a performance. He never told us how we sounded. At the end of class, he’d say, “See you tomorrow. Crumbley Corporation (A) and (B).” He was giving us our musical score. None of this was... View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

a magazine that would be mailed to members of the Alumni Association nine times a year and would include material on developments at HBS, discussions of "actual problems used for written reports in the School," summaries of cases from the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just prestige and money, you may View Details

14 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 14

programs were specific enough to Buro Happold's needs and relevant to the firm's culture. The first two programs were a big success, and the firm expanded the training offerings under the Archimedes banner. The case ends with a client, a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

linked to politics, economics, and ecology. Any bit of news, such as an oil tanker spill, a technical problem at a plant, or a political crisis in 1 of their sourcing countries, can send their share prices into a tailspin. Even good news... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

satisfaction of applying their learning to a problem about which they care a great deal." Funded by the School principally through generous alumni gifts and supplementing what employer organizations can pay, fellowships enable students to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Maximum Sustainable Goodness By Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Harper Business Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical element as well; they value certain principles... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States By Alliah L. Agostini (MBA 2009); Illustrated by Sawyer Cloud becker&mayer! Kids On June 19, 1865—more than two years after... View Details

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers will have to make View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

with the agency. Despite that admiration, the case ends at a provocative decision point: Bezos and Blue Origin must decide whether to follow the productive NASA partnership into a third, more complicated phase of CCDev, or strike out on... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion. What triggered this explosive growth? Ed Kane: Three important... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

decades ago—hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's job. The problem lies not in what strategists are trained to do: Porter's perspective is... View Details