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  • 26 May 2022
  • News

Bidding Up

overestimating the value of an item—and overpaying for it. Nobel Committee: In the 1960s, Robert Wilson started to investigate auctions with a common value. That is, a value which is unknown beforehand, but in the end is the same to all bidders. Consider an auction for... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

areas like mental health care, dairy farmer subsidies, and the fishing industry, Cai says. “Things that maybe we're not as familiar with. Seeing the breadth of different policies and the different stakeholders that they touch was... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers felt that they were being threatened by cheap fish from Vietnam, and local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The costs are... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

sales manager, assistant manager for a large seafood distributor, eel exporter, seafood trader, and fish packer. He has also cast a wide net in an effort to keep up with his classmates as 1974's class secretary and Section F correspondent... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
  • 28 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

interviewed have a broad view of their societal and ethical responsibilities. "It's not something that we went fishing for, but it came through very clearly that many of these people, some of whom came from great poverty, are aware of the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 11 Jul 2025
  • News

Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast

Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

residents of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket such as the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Cape Wind has also confronted opposition from other political leaders as well as Native American groups, tourism and business associations, recreational View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • News

Wired for Innovation

Working in a small fishing village on the Panama-Costa Rica border, Skelly helped to make decisions about micro lending in order to generate small-business growth. “I didn’t know much about business, but when you’re trying to figure out... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Doing Something Real

BowlÐsized audience for $1,000 - instead of $1 million - per spot." Such bargain hunting has always appealed to Tobias, who buys just about everything in bulk and is rumored to stockpile toothpaste and tuna fish by the case lot.... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
  • Web

South Asia - Global Activities 2020

44 HBS students traveled to the small Sri Lankan fishing town of Hambantota, currently undergoing a major redevelopment, and found it to be a microcosm of the entire two-week study experience in January 2020. Pictured: Students in front... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

prided themselves on their sustainable fishing practices, which were not the historical norm for the industry; here, again, translating these practices into increased willingness to pay was a challenge. As background, the case also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

over the network--may be destroyed. There is an answer to this problem: distributed networks with maximum connectivity (all nodes connected to each other by alternate paths similar to a fish net) with the capability of self-repairing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

shareholders didn’t meet the 1-percent-minimum holding requirement. At the same time, the researchers found that firms had sought to exclude proposals from small and large investors alike. So it wasn’t as if only the small fish were... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

A Capital Asset

the bodies up there.’ We ignored that advice.”) Cohen is also proud of her part in effecting the transfer of authority over remote Midway Island from the Navy to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For decades, the Navy had restricted... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Predictable Surprises

political biases in preventing leaders from recognizing and acting on warning signs of impending disasters. Could you give an example of each? In the book, we talk about the cognitive biases of those involved in the fishing industry who... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

company’s most accomplished subject matter experts. “I was by far the youngest person on the team. It was reminiscent of my time at NASA, where I felt like a little fish in a big pond, but I just soaked up everything,” she said. “They had... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

investor. He co-founded the Fish Sauce podcast, which shares the stories of AAPI founders and investors, and advises USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering and Harvard founder programs. Chad Laurans MBA ’06, Harvard University; BS,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Rich Wilson

of that, in French! Flying fish are amazing to see, though I wore a helmet with a clear Lexan visor to protect myself: They glide at 25 knots, so you don’t want to get hit in the eye. In the Southern Ocean, the albatross are beautiful... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services
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