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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

Illustration by Peter Arkle Since the outbreak of civil war in 2011, 4.9 million Syrians have fled their country, and another 6.6 million are internally displaced, according to the UN Refugee Agency. To better understand the human,... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Other Article

Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany

By: Ariel Dora Stern, Henrik Matthies, Julia Hagen, Jan B. Brönneke and Jörg F. Debatin
A new law will make it easier to introduce and determine the benefits of new tools. Perhaps its most important provisions are its formalization of “prescribable applications,” which include standard software, SaaS, and mobile as well as browser-based apps, and the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Germany
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  • April 4, 2009
  • Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details
Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations
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  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

Photographs by Webb Chappell Now in its tenth year, the Bulletin’s annual student profiles have become something of a tradition. Faced each spring with a mountain of potential candidates, we puzzle our way... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

learning and teaching about the assessment of opportunities, deal structuring, and incentives. (Metallization refers to a thin layer of metal that covers the CDs before... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

technological innovation. “The question is with 50 million public school students in America, how can you provide a more individualized learning experience?” "If you go to the smallest mom-and-pop restaurant, you'll find a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 06 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

condition: pancreatic cancer. “I got to see the glamorous and heroic aspects of medicine but also the realistic and limited aspects of it as well,” says Zaki, a rising fourth-year student and first-year MBA... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding a Path out of Poverty

insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and sticking to a budget. Helping people View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

An Empirical Study of Time Allotment and Delays in E-commerce Delivery

By: M. Balakrishnan, MoonSoo Choi and Natalie Epstein
Problem definition: We study how having more time allotted to deliver an order affects the speed of the delivery process. Furthermore, we seek to predict orders that are likely to be delayed early in the delivery process so that actions can be taken to avoid delays.... View Details
Keywords: Logistics; E-commerce; Mathematical Methods; AI and Machine Learning; Performance Productivity
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  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

two or three parameters like attitude and sincerity towards work; it should also measure domain knowledge, soft skills like leadership and managerial quality, creativity, and the ability to learn and adapt to the changing... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • Research Summary

Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management
  • Web

Members of the Military | MBA

Members of the Military Harvard Business School (HBS) is home to veterans of all branches of the US Military, as well as foreign militaries. Veterans bring a variety View Details
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

House of Bread on the Rise

McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to... View Details
Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures
  • summer 1997
  • Article

An Empirical Exploration of a Technology Race

By: J. Lerner
An extensive theoretical literature examines technological competition, and in particular whether leaders maintain their standing. These models, however, have received little support. Innovation is examined in the disk drive industry, an environment particularly... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Learning
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  • 30 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

Many products in those sectors are sold in a bundled form, so bundling strategies have always been a key topic for media and entertainment firms. But I learned that the rise of digital channels is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models

image by John Ritter From Uber’s surge pricing to dynamic ticket pricing, it seems there’s been more awareness of pricing models and pricing strategy in recent years. What’s driving that interest? Thales Teixeira: We need to go back... View Details
  • March 2011 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna, Karol Misztal and Daniela Beyersdorfer
What are the major challenges to the continued growth of IFRS worldwide? Should countries be encouraged to pursue "full adoption" of IFRS or should each country determine its own IFRS "convergence" strategy? Given the limitations of governance and... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Emerging Markets; Financial Reporting; Global Strategy; Fair Value Accounting; Corporate Governance; Standards; Adoption; Growth and Development Strategy
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    Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

    This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers.... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2018
    • News

    Making Sense of the Modern Startup

    the Apple II a viable business tool. Takeaways from Entrepreneurial Finance Each of the 10,000-plus veterans of Entrepreneurial Finance has his or her own list of lessons View Details
    Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)