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  • 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown

students, five days, five different business ideas. This innovative alternative to Spring Break was born during a brainstorming session among HBS classmates four years ago. It started with Emma Toshack (MBA 2014) wondering what the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices in Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial knowledge. Financial experiences are the participants' reported experiences with traditional borrowing, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

of the roles and uses of management control systems (MCS), the paper explores how ERM achieved organizational significance in the studied settings. The findings are indicative of the current co-existence of alternative models of ERM. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

shoplifters an alternative to the criminal justice system and reduce the cost associated with prosecuting a relatively minor crime. Here’s how it works: When a shoplifter is apprehended, no one calls the police. Instead, the offender is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Business School Case 318-004 Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network A team of investors at Omidyar Network explore two different investment possibilities in the budding financial inclusion space using their investment framework to consider capital View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

index-based benchmarks do not adequately achieve this objective. Further, the index-benchmark selection is associated with governance-related frictions and is not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

competition. The codes, instead, popularized a third way, an alternative vision for American capitalism that partnered private trade associations with government agencies. The codes of fair competition discussed at the Chamber and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

pollution, and growing inequality. The case concludes with the decision to abandon GDP growth as a measure of success and opens questions about what this means for Shanghai and China. Moreover, the case raises the question of what View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

working relationship and asks students to evaluate the alternatives facing the two Joffes as they consider the future for themselves and AME Learning. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810065-PDF-ENG Buro Happold... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

Harken reimagines joy-inspiring, iconic treats, infusing them with superfoods that nourish and satiate: a healthier alternative candy bar snack. Success Stories Many people are aware of HBS entrepreneurial successes such as Tom Stemberg... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

energy at the district level as well as sourcing clean energy from large-scale suppliers. For cities and businesses, millions of dollars saved is equal to millions of dollars earned, and that can readily be achieved through greater efficiencies. While clean tech and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

Jones Abstract—This working paper suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

currency bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country accumulates reserves in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

from Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA) property, IPS implies individual behavior that is counterintuitive in the context of choice among similar alternatives. But models that alleviate the concerns raised by IIA, such as generalized extreme... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA

for this cost. Students with concerns should reach out to the Global Experience Office ( geo@hbs.edu ). Travel During the Immersion During free time built into an IFC itinerary, personal travel that involves leaving the country, taking a flight, or staying overnight in... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

rules, along with conservation and alternative energy development) Carter himself described as “the moral equivalent of war.” But when oil prices began dropping on global markets and with the new Reagan administration’s emphasis on free... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

a decision maker may make between two decision alternatives as a parameter of the problem varies. We show how this formulation also relates many widely used concepts in single and multiattribute utility theory. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

  Working PapersUser, and Open Collaborative Innovation: Ascendent Economic Models Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024 | Working Knowledge

I recommend John Lescroart’s books featuring an ensemble group of San Francisco friends alternating front stage roles on their lives’ journeys. For southern flavor, James Lee Burke’s novels about Dave Robicheaux render the interior life... View Details