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  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Zanzibar: Something for Everyone

region. Visiting three spice plantations, we played guessing games with our guide, Baker, about what spice various plants yield and how. Baker, whose family owned one of the plantations we visited, first showed us a clove tree and... View Details
Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 02 Jan 2019
  • News

Not Waiting for Progress

Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took shape in 2006 after... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • Web

CSV Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

powerful force for positive change. There are numerous ways in which addressing societal concerns can yield productivity benefits to a firm. Consider, for example, what happens... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

create value for shareholders and society alike. That worked in many cases. But some executives who were loaded up with stock options succumbed to the temptation to “game” a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

percent believe the technology will affect them personally. Harvard Business School faculty members share their thoughts below about how AI will reshape the workforce and the skills necessary to succeed in the years ahead. Joseph Fuller: Brace View Details

    What Congress got Right with PPP, and What It Should Do Next for Small Businesses

    What worked and what didn’t in the first two rounds of PPP? Karen Mills presents recommendations for how to increase the program’s reach to the smallest and most vulnerable businesses. View Details
    • 28 Sep 2015
    • News

    Rockin’ for a Cause

    parties and weddings, where we can make anywhere from $2,000 to $15,000 a night for the schools. One time we even played for shares of Google stock. That was a pretty good gig.” When it comes to glitz and... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Symantec
    • July 2000 (Revised October 2019)
    • Exercise

    Riggs-Vericomp Negotiation (A):Confidential Information for RIGGS ENGINEERING (Seller)

    By: Michael Wheeler
    The seller (Riggs Engineering) manufactures and services recycling equipment for the computer industry. The buyer (Vericomp) uses solvents in manufacturing chips. Though set in a high-tech industry, this exercise illustrates fundamental aspects of negotiation analysis... View Details
    Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Tactics; Value Creation; Computer Industry
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    • 20 Aug 2008
    • Op-Ed

    The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

    capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's... View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
    • November 2023
    • Case

    The Commons Project in Rwanda—Building Digital Infrastructure for the Global Public Good

    By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Tom Quinn
    In September 2022, The Commons Project Foundation (TCP) CEO Zhenya Lindgardt and her team met on a Zoom call to discuss building tools to help Rwandans manage their health data. They believed that helping Africa build digital infrastructure would improve much-needed... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Capital; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Adaptation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry; Rwanda; United States
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    • March 2010
    • Article

    Further Improvements of Lower Bounds for the Least Common Multiples of Arithmetic Progressions

    By: Shaofang Hong and Scott Duke Kominers
    For relatively prime positive integers u_0 and r, we consider the arithmetic progression {u_k := u_0+k*r} (0 <= k <= n). Define L_n := lcm{u_0,u_1,...,u_n} and let a >= 2 be any integer. In this paper, we show that, for integers alpha,r >= a and n >=... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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    • 13 Nov 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

    women." Leaders need to set bold goals and provide the resources for people to reach those goals. It doesn't help to have legislation with a very grand sounding name like No Child Left Behind and not... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Jul 2016
    • Op-Ed

    Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

    TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors and 350 million reviews online... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
    • 10 May 2021
    • News

    Page: A GED for College? Not as Far-Fetched As It Sounds

    • 2014
    • Article

    Framework for China's Novel Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Peijun Duan
    China’s sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is insufficient; second, some resources and environment loads have reached their limits; third, some products affecting the... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainable Development; Integrated Report; New Evaluation System; China
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    • July 2024
    • Article

    Acceptance of Automated Vehicles Is Lower for Self than Others

    By: Stuti Agarwal, Julian De Freitas, Anya Ragnhildstveit and Carey K. Morewedge
    Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death worldwide for people aged 2–59. Nearly all deaths are due to human error. Automated vehicles could reduce mortality risks, traffic congestion, and air pollution of human-driven vehicles. However, their adoption... View Details
    Keywords: Transportation; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Adoption; Prejudice and Bias
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    • Video

    HBS Online Partners with Empowered to Educate for the 4th Annual Community Challenge

    • 09 Jan 2020
    • Blog Post

    Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020

    A new year provides an opportunity to set your vision for the future at home, in your career, and for your company. In your role as a recruiter or hiring manager, a cornerstone of that vision will be... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • August 2023
    • Article

    Do Rating Agencies Behave Defensively for Higher Risk Issuers?

    By: Samuel B. Bonsall IV, Kevin Koharki, Pepa Kraft, Karl A. Muller III and Anywhere Sikochi
    We examine whether rating agencies act defensively toward issuers with a higher likelihood of default. We find that agencies' qualitative soft rating adjustments are more accurate as issuers' default risk grows, as evidenced by the adjustments leading to lower Type I... View Details
    Keywords: Credit Rating Agencies; Soft Rating Adjustments; Default; Credit; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Institutions; Risk Management
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    • 01 Mar 2004
    • News

    New Horizons for Iraq

    primary goal of our coalition in Iraq,” Bush told the UN in September, “is self-government for the people of Iraq, reached by an orderly and democratic process. This process must unfold according to the... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government