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30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

She'd say that he was worth 4,000 pounds a year. That's how we usually think of our standard of living." Merton says we're used to the mutual fund industry as a vehicle for getting to our retirement goal, yet few of us have a deep... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

Historians.) Hisano’s paper looks at how industry players and regulators collectively decided what any given food is supposed to look like—and redefined the marketing meaning of “natural.” The quest for summery butter and orange oranges “In the food industry, color... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

through his own leadership of the meeting. The purpose of these rules was to introduce new standards of interpersonal behavior and, in the process, to combat several dysfunctional routines. One serious test of Levy's ability to reinforce... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

01 Dec 2020
News

Tried and Tested

different expectations for clean identification. But, yes, we fundamentally know that we’re in it together. KC: I can give you an example. I wrote an experimental paper about men and women having different propensities to guess on View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Sep 2006
News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

kind of market changes do you advocate? We have already had some success with the creation of certification programs that advance sustainable forests and fisheries. We sponsored the creation of the Forest Stewardship Council and the Marine Stewardship Council, each of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) | Baker Library

Library, then Research Center and choose Morningstar) Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage (for equity analysis) Standard & Poor's Ratings Direct within Capital IQ (for credit analysis) Value Line Related Help... View Details

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms-a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings increases a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation more than fourfold. We find moreover that NPEs... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

paradise enjoyed by Turtle Island Resort's fourteen guest couples. Fourteen couples, fourteen private beaches, each with its own cottage, or bure, designed and constructed according to the standards of traditional Fijian craftsmanship... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

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Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details

Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives

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Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih

This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology

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06 Jul 2021
Blog Post

The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups

various backgrounds into their first tech roles and changing the standards of hiring talent from having credentials to proving capabilities. Given U.S. job growth for software engineering is 5x more than average job growth, we know this... View Details

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

learn so much from patients, but getting them involved requires encouragement, building trust, and growing awareness. Learn more: Patient Engagement: Five Basics Patient Engagement Through Value Patient Registries 2. Data & Analytics: Aggregating and View Details

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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

will look at the management and investment issues from the perspectives of both general partners and limited partners. The analysis will also include a study of firm economics and the resulting incentives from the 2/20 standard... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers

and RBIs—is WAR (wins above replacement). What was once a weird new metric, which caused panic among traditionalists, has become industry standard shorthand for assessing player value. “If anyone tries to explain how WAR is calculated, it... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories

corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

accounting information affects economic outcomes, specifically, how accounting standards and corporate disclosures influence capital allocation decisions. Yu’s work has been cited in the New York Times. She earned her Ph.D. from the... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Running on empty

began selling SpareTank in June. Now available at Kmart and other chains for less than $20 a gallon, SpareTank could generate as much as $15 million in sales this year and may soon be adopted as a standard feature by a major automaker.... View Details

17 Jun 2014
News

Shedding light on business issues and opportunities in Asia

development banking at Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, Swiss Bank Corporation, Union Bank of Switzerland, and the Asian Development Bank. He is currently a member of the HBS Asia-Pacific Advisory Board and other boards. (Published June... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

In Brief

Q&A with Daniel Vasella. Initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a major pharmaceutical company, Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) has set a new standard for innovation as CEO of Novartis. The Winning Season. Last year, St.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

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