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Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog

foundation for why trust building matters. It introduces the trust framework used throughout the course and explores trust building in different contexts from building trust into daily operations and decisions, to building trust through... View Details

07 Jul 2023
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Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

methods, compared to statistics, of being stored in the brain, but because they are more likely to include distinctive details or context that aid recall. By contrast, statistics and numbers, being abstract concepts, can be harder for the... View Details

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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

coursework. That helps our information research staff to understand the context of your question. Research topics Suggested Resources Company/Competitors Capital IQ Profiles and data on public, private companies and investment firms such... View Details

14 Nov 2024
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Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions

in early-stage ClimateTech companies. To start off the day, Professor Jim Matheson provided critical background knowledge on the context of climate change, exploring both the key problems and opportunities that climate change presents.... View Details

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Patrick Ferguson

the attendance and consumption of sports, investigating the validity of the assumption that uncertainty of outcome is the primary draw for fans. Patrick sees broad applicability to his research beyond the fields of management and sports. “Ultimately,” he says, “our... View Details

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The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog

seeking to advance their knowledge of general management, strategy, and marketing in the context of a challenging, rapidly changing, and fun environment. Educational Objectives The course starts with an examination of the properties that... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference

"Financing Health-Care Delivery and Innovation"; two case studies, led by HBS assistant professors Richard Bohmer and Henry Chesbrough, that examined patients' rights in the context of other industry imperatives; and a session on health... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Layla A. Ramirez

Tomorrow (MLT), after spending several years in Global Wealth & Investment Management at Merrill Lynch. She has amassed an array of work experience in a multitude of cultural contexts throughout Asia, Europe, North America and Latin... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Technology

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets addresses View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

strategic environment for transnational business. These informal rules and bargains include the political coalitions that sustain globalization and the dynamics of international business in different contexts of economic and political... View Details

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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

- to be awarded a Nobel Prize. To celebrate both an extraordinary honor and a remarkable man, the Baker Library presents an exhibition exploring the context in which Professor Robert Merton conducted his Nobel Prize research, from his... View Details

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Creating the Modern Financial System - Course Catalog

companies). Still others focus on the behavior of financial actors and groups, particularly in the context of financial bubbles and crashes. Because the course highlights the origins of financial markets and instruments as well as the... View Details

11 May 2021
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Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

stressful part of so many people’s lives, and it really defines one's HBS experience, yet there's not a lot of open conversation about the topic. It felt useful to put numbers and context on something that a lot of us sensed, which was... View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

Walter Kuemmerle. These realities include the importance of local context and the need to adhere to a global perspective on opportunities and access to resources. These same issues provide fascinating research fodder for the course he... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2001
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How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

Valley. A broader extension of this study would explore how various contexts contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation, and compare industrial clusters with other possible contexts, such as incubators or large corporations. Future... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

a context of rapid product proliferation, short product life cycles, and global networks of suppliers and customers. Hence, topics not examined in RC TOM such as inventory management, distribution economics, and demand forecasting are... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Averting Crisis

beliefs play a central role. I have worked on projects that study beliefs and important economic decisions, in the context of corporate investment in general, and banking and the financial crisis in particular.” —Yueran Ma (PhDBE 2018),... View Details

03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

"decouple" payments to European farmers. Explores the logic behind agricultural supports, with a focus on the economic, political, and cultural context of French farming. Discusses efforts to reform the CAP in the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog

human condition-as well as our approach to leadership, strategy, negotiation and policy. More specifically, we will: Draw lessons for leadership, strategy, negotiation, and policy from cases where decision making occurs in contexts... View Details

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