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- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
functionality the company used, such as a pricing system tied to the company’s commodity hedging positions on a real-time, as well as off-the-shelf systems, for recording financial transactions and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
multiplier firms and megaprojects engaged in sustainability-related initiatives, we also explain the value of learning logic, in contrast to blueprint logic, for leading change for sustainability. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
at Africa Health Management in Accra, Ghana. Dezzy Ogakwu (MBA 2021) , director/CEO of Lagos-based Aku Fintech, which enables access to digital financial services. Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021) , founder of Ghana-based Chaku Foods, and a grand... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
China, Hong Kong, and the world, but in a very different global context. President Peter Mathieson believed that HKU still had an important role to play but knew that HKU needed to adapt to China's growing global presence and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
its traditional slow-paced and bureaucratic system of R&D to emulate the relatively fast pace and entrepreneurial system of biotech companies." The firm created several specialized research teams to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
system testing, and system integration testing. Personal Motivation Specialisterne's founder, Thorkil Sonne, launched the company in 2004 following a high-level career in telecommunications IT.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these issues “usually aren’t well known to funders with big pockets,” explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. In addition to View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Manufacturing, IBM; Sanjay Kumar, chairman & CEO, Computer Associates International, Inc.; Alfred S. Chuang, founder, chairman, & CEO, BEA Systems “Web services are underhyped at this point. Customers are quietly starting to use this... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
stimulative enough—and they were worried about their reelection prospects. Now you've got a world capital market that is acutely sensitive about what the Fed does. One thing underreported in the media is that when the Fed flooded the US banking View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
reversion to very early hiring or the use of a centralized matching system such as that used for medical residencies. We suggest, however, potential avenues by which the clerkship market could stabilize at something like its present... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Mawilmada helped secure a $1.25 billion investment for the line from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, with two other 25-kilometer corridors prepped for public-private partnership funding. Buses are another piece of the puzzle, with the current View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Ivy So and Alina Staskevicius Description: The growth of impact investing has led to an unprecedented focus on impact measurement, with the aim of understanding both financial and social return on these investments. However, impact... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
businesses, the financial reporting problems, and governance breakdowns inside and outside the firm. The case offers students an opportunity to explore why Enron failed and to understand the systemic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
years building P&G's Chinese operation rather than the core detergent business. IBM's Sam Palmisano was a champion of software and open systems at a time when Big Blue was essentially a closed-system, hardware-oriented company. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
could bring. The reason we eventually let the government take back the lead on this rather than pursue it as a commercial effort is that... Ultimately, the cost of the overall system was still going to be in the billions of dollars. And... View Details
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
sustainability showed the wide variety of ways we can adapt, from Patagonia’s internal Environmental Profit and Loss metric which comes way before financials in their product evaluations, to Representative Sean Casten’s #HotFERCSummer... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
manufacturing operations, new product development, advertising and marketing strategies, and year-end financial statements. The Dewey Library, MIT Libraries and the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business Economics, Columbia University... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
firm based on social and environmental metrics. We find that the political system, followed by the labor and education system, and the cultural system are the most important NBS categories of institutions that impact CSP. Interestingly,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-023.pdf Employee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne