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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
strategies to overcome those challenges and successfully lead these ventures to scale in order to generate financial returns and deliver the intended impact. Key Learning Objectives Understand key founding and funding View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
Photography by Jason Minick At the age of 16, Fortunat Mueller-Maerki (MBA 1975) was given his first clock, a Viennese desk model from the late 18th century. It came to him from the estate of a distant relative, and wasn’t particularly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
learning. The HBS Economic Model What distinguishes the HBS economic model is a commitment to research that is largely internally funded. At the heart of this research is the School’s faculty, scholars who... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
for example—in addition to commodity products. It describes how the firm's sales strategy—including changes in structure and compensation—changed as its overall product line evolve. The case also offers an interesting contrast for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
building and well-being. The fellowship’s unique model provides funding for one graduating student to join an organization dedicated to creating local financial and business opportunities. The RISE Career Fellow selects a company and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Ben Steiner
end, we found that the current model wasn’t fair to taxpayers, and that the best approach would be to auction off the warrants in an open market. It wasn’t just about the money, but about assuring confidence in the process through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
for kids ages 11 to 18. Get details and register online at www.alumni.hbs.edu/glf/. But don’t wait until the last minute. Based on the huge success of the Shanghai forum last June, the London event will quickly reach its limit of 1,000 participants. In View Details
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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog
affect company survival? Ownership as a choice. What are the potential models of ownership? What are the career possibilities in different ownership models? When should companies consider changing models? As a founder, how should you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
in 1995. Linking this with Nielsen viewer panel data on over fifteen hundred individuals, Anand and Shachar developed a model to determine how well TV viewers' choices of programming “matched” their likely viewing preferences (based upon... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
largest female-owned franchise business in the country. The challenge that Valerie faces is how to grow. Should she continue growth as a franchisee or change her business model and become a franchisor? In View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Undergrads Tackle Business Research
the seeds for the next generation of HBS faculty,” says HBS professor Mihir Desai, the program’s chair. PRIMO is one of HBS’s new initiatives to expand the School’s collaborative efforts with the University, a key goal of Dean Nitin... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
upsetting the West's conventional wisdom about the reasons for Japan's success, Porter and his coauthors emphasize that Japanese practices such as total quality and continuous improvement were valuable additions to U.S. industry. But, as... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
with Harvard's interfaculty Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, resulted in his formulation of a model of human behavior that explains why even the most "rational" people behave irrationally at times, willfully continuing in self-destructive... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21
ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the intergenerational transmission of earnings ability in the United States, and use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
With more MBA women in line to become the next generation of top corporate officers, there is a growing need for female role models in the classroom. This presents a challenge for business educators, since... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
opportunities in inner city businesses, said surveys show a general increase in computer ownership and online access among inner city families. Even so, she pointed out, computer use in the inner city remains significantly lower than in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2019
- News
Putting Value on Diversity, Inclusion, and Leadership
developing junior faculty who are in the generations behind me. Young faculty who come up and connect me to what they're doing, either as a role model or because they're the protégés of someone who was my... View Details