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- 14 Nov 2019
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Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
front lines treating patients. But at least I could try to help with some of the market design challenges,” Kominers explains. But the team found that government officials didn’t invest nearly enough. Their study estimates the world is on track to be able to produce 3...
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- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita GDP, income inequality, and other factors. Countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption. We suggest that this surprising...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
of old firms, and the creation of new and appealing jobs. "The larger and more liquid an equity market is," Seifert emphasized, "measured in terms of its turnover ratio [that is, the average number of times a share changes hands], the faster the growth...
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by James E. Aisner
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
nearly 80,000 options, which has a Black Scholes value of $2.8 million (equivalent to the next present value of $1 million per year for three years). Shifts in stock price have a dramatic effect on this large holding. If the stock price...
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by Brian Hall
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
minutes trading halts, and students submit their permits. They are obliged to pay a fine of $40 per ton of pollution exceeding their permit holdings. “No one is thinking about efficient reduction of pollution during the exercise.”...
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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
proposing this tax on their own sector of ~$150 USD per ton of carbon emitted to incentivize the shipping industry to move forward. The role of culture Our week in Denmark opened our eyes to how integrated sustainability is in both...
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
hours in the workweek, and the rise in per capita income, more Americans now had the time and money to enjoy leisure activities once considered the privilege of the upper class. The Progressive Era of social activism and political reform...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
the right thing. We also found that their expectations in this vein are often higher than other generations’ expectations. In the automotive category, for instance, millennials expect car companies to create vehicles that will get more than 60 miles View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
a $15 billion market cap and a $300 million revenue run rate per year, TIBCO is one of the fastest-growing software companies ever. Like any corporate executive, Ranadivé is concerned with the dollars-and-cents valuation of his company...
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- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
not for his skills or experience per se, but for those interests, ambitions and activities he was most passionate about. Looking back, Kloeblen spoke passionately about a social-networking group he had led at IBM. “It was a network of...
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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
users away and indirectly improves congestion as networks become smaller. Interestingly, iTunes was not available in the days of Napster and congestion was much worse then. It is in this sense that p2p benefits from the presence of iTunes. Q: Do you think Apple's...
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Program Policies - HBS Online
won't affect your overall grade. Missing more than one quiz deadline per course, however, will adversely affect your course grade and your credential eligibility. All CORe modules and quizzes must be completed to be eligible to take the...
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- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
“Walmart is losing several hundred dollars per month in sales at least from us.” Ituk Uppoo was more concerned about inconvenience. As he said, “I give him a C. So they don’t carry ammo anymore, so what? I simply now will have to go to my...
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- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Boeing and by selling time rather than engines—up-time, that is. The deal guaranteed that GE would keep the engines running for a quoted cost per hour, providing whatever parts, service, and related support might be needed over the life...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of addiction psychiatry had been unable...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
waste, and conserve natural resources. From 2005 to 2015, for instance, the company’s water and energy consumption per garment dropped by 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. Esquel also works to enhance the well-being of its...
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Online Learning Track Programs | HBS Online
How Does it Work? To earn a Certificate of Specialization, learners must successfully complete three courses from their selected Learning Track within 18 months. Individual courses range anywhere from four to eight weeks and typically require four to nine hours of work...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
losses, at EMRI’s quarterly board meetings he focuses on the organization’s very human bottom line. “We track the number of lives saved. It’s like our earnings per share for the quarter,” Palepu explains. “It’s a very inspiring statistic...
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- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
their skills has given nurses greater bargaining power to negotiate higher salaries and better working conditions. Prior to the pandemic, Nightingale Nurses charged about $85 an hour for its nurses (about 75% goes to the nurse, about 25% to the company). Today, the...
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