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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
entrepreneur's circle of influence: how to identify a venture's core customers and the implications for selling, cost management, growth strategy, and required organizational relationships. Q: Why is it important for companies to select... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Stock market capitalization: exchanges, industries, countries
select Years. World Federation of Exchanges An association of 53 regulated exchanges around the world providing annual, YTD, and monthly statistics. (Registration required). View Details
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Introduction Prelude to the Option Pricing Model The Formula The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models Selected Bibliography Lenders to the Exhibit Additional Information About... View Details
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Water: reserves and usage
production with a thematic focus on different strategic water issues. Selected data tables from World’s Water series by Pacific Institute. AQUASTAT: Water usage database from the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the... View Details
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Business conditions in countries worldwide
Under My Reports and Services, select Country Commerce from the drop-down menu. Choose the desired country. Choose the desired year. Reports are available back to the 1990s. Doing Business: World Bank country... View Details
- July 2001
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Bobbie D'Alessandro and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
By: Linda A. Hill, Kristin Doughty and Ellen Pruyne
Bobbi D'Alessandro, the superintendent of the school system in Cambridge, MA, has just hired a new principal to lead a major redesign effort in the city's only high school. The need for reform had been evident since the late 1980s when school statistics highlighted... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Performance Improvement; Change Management; Secondary Education; Selection and Staffing; Leading Change; Education Industry; Cambridge
Hill, Linda A., Kristin Doughty, and Ellen Pruyne. "Bobbie D'Alessandro and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School." Harvard Business School Case 402-002, July 2001.
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
chosen bag, to give them some skin in the game and make them more serious about their choice. Then, the students were excused for 12 hours. Some did the initial selection of a bag at night and were told to come back in the morning, after... View Details
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Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries
By: Peter W. Roberts, Mukti Khaire and Christopher I. Rider
When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or valuations and therefore prices). We theorize that strong or even... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Organizations; Performance Expectations; Price; Competency and Skills; Quality; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Selection and Staffing; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry
Roberts, Peter W., Mukti Khaire, and Christopher I. Rider. "Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 101, no. 3 (May 2011): 147–151.
- November 1992 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
Bitstream
Focuses on the new CEO of a growing software firm, the culture he's tried to create, and the need to hire a manager to spearhead a new product division. Includes details on how the search was conducted and presents resumes of four candidates who are being considered... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Organizational Culture; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Cognition and Thinking; Applications and Software; Business Divisions; Information Technology Industry
Roberts, Michael J. "Bitstream." Harvard Business School Case 393-055, November 1992. (Revised November 1998.)
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EconLit | Baker Library
EconLit Comprehensive bibliography of economics literature. Read More This resource contains an indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, including coverage of over 600 journals, articles in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
donations on behalf of selected families in dire need. Commenting on the students’ effort, Connors said, “It was a great statement about the School and the students.” View Details
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Mutual Funds: Fees
has historical data on mutual fund prices and fees. In WRDS, go to CRSP > Quarterly update > Mutual Funds > Fund Summary. Set date range and enter mutual fund codes (use code lookup or upload an existing file). Query... View Details
Eugene W. Rhodes
Having spent his summers in college working at the Tribune, Rhodes was selected to run the paper in 1922, following the unexpected deaths of both the Tribune’s founder and its managing editor. Despite his youth and lack of experience,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
When private equity (PE) firms buy a company, they typically follow a standard playbook to create value—streamlining operations, restructuring debt, changing management, and cutting costs. However, as digital technologies and artificial intelligence allow companies to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Curriculum | MBA
enables students to take classes at other select graduate programs during their EC year. Students may take any combination of courses—up to five courses per semester—and also have the opportunity to cross-register for courses in other... View Details
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Business ownership: by gender, race and ethnicity
Where can I find data on U.S. businesses by gender, race, and ethnicity? U.S. Census Bureau: The Survey of Business Owners (SBO) provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and... View Details
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Bloomberg: five useful shortcuts
Display list of previous 8 functions Type LAST and hit GO. Make selection from list to rerun a function. Add or remove news at bottom of panel Type NO and hit GO to toggle scrolling news on and off. Print Hit PRINT to print... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Money and Mortals
from the collection that have been selected for inclusion in a permanent online exhibition, Coin & Conscience: Popular Views of Money, Credit and Speculation. The exhibition may be viewed at www.library.hbs.edu/hc/cc/. View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
research in Nicaragua. Last spring, the plan designed by the LCAE team, whose advisors included Thomke, entrepreneurs, consultants, product designers, and ophthalmologists, was selected as the winning entry over ten other... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses