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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

the base of the pyramid encompasses 5.0 of the 7.5 billion people in the world. In most nations, it accounts for the largest aggregate expenditure of the economy, yet continues to be significantly underserved. This makes possible... View Details

September 2006
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Earnings Management Exercise

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Students act as managers or investors. Managers have the ability to manipulate reported earnings, and investors must bid for shares taking this into account. View Details

Keywords: Earnings Management; Value; Stock Shares; Opportunities; Bids and Bidding; Reports

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Program Policies - HBS Online

full explanation of CORe grading information and overview, please visit the CORe grading webpage . Please note: by enrolling in Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, or Financial Accounting as individual certificate Programs,... View Details

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

commercialization and adoption. Emerging opportunities must be nurtured, and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

to know to win in highly competitive markets. The more competitive your marketplace—with competitors trying to steal your customers, attract your best people, and leapfrog you in technology—the more valuable this course will be to you. Using fundamental building blocks... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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HBS Records an “Excellent” Year

$9 million on the strength of higher circulation and foreign edition royalties for Harvard Business Review; growth in sales of cases, teaching materials, and HBS Press books; and expansion of HBSP’s eLearning business. Another year of strong investment returns for the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

dedication to a sense of what is just and fair that explains why she now finds herself in the trenches of local politics, fighting to shift a culture of patronage and mismanagement that has been decades in the making. Located in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

From product push to customer pull, technology has vastly reshaped the business transaction—and in turn, the customer's place in the value chain. Today, managing the customer relationship has become the single most important dimension of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

30 Oct 2015
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4 Takeaways from HBS

struggles against conformity, even in an environment as diverse as HBS. Events like these showed me how much I should treasure my own diversity and unique background because these were the passions that would fuel me to make a difference. 3. Shareholder View Details

01 Mar 2004
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David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

now. Only Iraqis can secure their country. Give a date for Coalition withdrawal. Any date, even distant, would calm sensitivities. Hold immediate free and fair elections - open to all comers, including former government and Islamists.... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

to make a lasting difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when in our conscious mind we would deem that behavior counter to our View Details

February 2021
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The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir Desai, Ruth Page, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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01 Feb 2001
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overlooked question: If Japanese government policies and practices accounted for the nation's extraordinary competitiveness, then why wasn't Japan competitive in many of the industries where those policies had been prominently... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 16 Jul 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details

13 Aug 2024
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Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

many patients as possible. Rewards for quality and value creation are rare, if at all present, in physician compensation plans. As time previously devoted to compiling EMR documentation becomes available, institutions may increase their... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

04 Jun 2024
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Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

entrepreneurs so that entrepreneurship is accessible to everyone, that is something deeply linked to undoing some of the injustices of the past and promoting fairness and equity.” In doing this work, Ramirez is operating in alignment with... View Details

24 May 2023
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Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

to a capital provider to do what they said they were going to do and deliver the economic value that the projects promise,” said Jacobs. “The only way you can deliver that value, whether it’s to the investor or to other stakeholders like... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out

out of the air-conditioned tractor cab to do,” he says. Hand-worked chores account for a huge portion of labor on farms, says Andersen. Take, for example, table grapes, which are picked exclusively by hand: California farmers gross... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

1973) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value by John Sviokla (MBA 1983) and Mitch Cohen (Portfolio) Looking at self-made billionaires like Steve Jobs and... View Details

10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

environmental sustainability could provide an opportunity to create value for the firm by delivering both commercial and reputational benefits. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2318399 U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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