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- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about interest rates, exchange rates, or... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
this knowledge transfer that it moves from one geography to another.” Innovation transferred There are two reasons for that delay, he says. The first is uncertainty for all involved about whether knowledge from one region will work in a... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
action? That is, in this case, does belief in the need to create the rainbow help insure that the pot of gold is in fact there and is attainable? The question for entrepreneurs, of course, is whether the level of uncertainty argues... View Details
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
the traditional path is to succeed in school, find an entry-level job at a reputable company and then climb the corporate ladder by working long, grueling hours. The job is a lifetime commitment and your success is tied inextricably to the company’s success. Giving... View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
first thousand users However, we soon realized that acquiring the first thousand users would be harder than choosing the idea. In the initial days when we just launched the product and had no users, we had to deal with the uncertainty of... View Details
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Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Tarun Khanna IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification Strategy January 2026 J 3.0 John Jong-Hyun Kim Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship General Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 William Kirby Doing Business with China 2035:... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
the uncertainty surrounding the survival of their own firm, but that of the industry itself. The implications of this are that pioneer-entrepreneurs have to adopt specific strategies to overcome the View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about earnings in entrepreneurship, this option increases the expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
innovation strategy under market uncertainty is also addressed. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508090 Myths and Lessons of Modern Chinese History Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Crisis Leadership Nancy Koehn Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty William Kirby Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Energy Dustin Tingley Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is given for View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
Yael BraidHarvard Business School Case 813-101 HealthCraft's three founders are about to craft their founding agreement and split the equity among themselves. Uncertainty lingers over each member's future contributions, though-how is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details
- April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
The Dannon Company: Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (A)
By: Christopher Marquis, Pooja Mehta Shah, Amanda Elizabeth Tolleson and Bobbi Thomason
At the end of 2009, The Dannon Company was considering pro actively communicating its CSR efforts to consumers. With the strong connection between Dannon's production of health foods and its commitment to health and nutrition-based CSR activities, communicating these... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Nutrition; Marketing Communications; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Food and Beverage Industry
Marquis, Christopher, Pooja Mehta Shah, Amanda Elizabeth Tolleson, and Bobbi Thomason. "The Dannon Company: Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-121, April 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 2005
- Working Paper
Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Inflation and Deflation; System Shocks; Developing Countries and Economies; Mathematical Methods
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-053, January 2005. (Revised March 2010. Also NBER Working Paper No. 13131.)
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
decision strategic and what makes strategy valuable, the paper considers the effect of commitment, reliability, and irreversibility of a decision; the presence of uncertainty (and the type of uncertainty); the number and strength of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
governments created further uncertainties for Chinese consumers and hence for the carmakers. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/dongfeng-nissan-s-venucia-b/an/714015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-016 Dongfeng Nissan's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
ongoing uncertainty about the pandemic, all departments scrutinized their budgets, preserving only those critical, strategically important expenses that were feasible in light of COVID-related restrictions. People were the priority. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
terms of direct practical benefits.” But report-writing courses were dogged over the years by confusion about what they should accomplish and how; shifting standards of evaluation and grading; faculty ambivalence about the courses’ role in the curriculum; and student... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- January 2025
- Case
Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Information Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)