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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity... View Details
- May 2010
- Article
Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles
By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
Cyclicality in the supply of business credit has been the focus of a considerable amount of research. This cyclicality can stem from shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S.... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital; Credit; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; System Shocks; Financial Services Industry
Ivashina, Victoria, and David Scharfstein. "Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010): 57–61.
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
manager's skills. When the telecommunications industry was deregulated and challenged by new entrants, for instance, few former Bell Systems managers were able to successfully transition to the fast-moving,... View Details
- November 1983 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
Controls at the Sands Hotel and Casino
Describes the controls used in the casino over the blackjack game and cash stocks, and movements of cash. Also describes the results measures available in the casino and their limitations for control purposes. View Details
Merchant, Kenneth A. "Controls at the Sands Hotel and Casino." Harvard Business School Case 184-048, November 1983. (Revised June 1994.)
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District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future - Blog - Business & Environment
the system is equipped to produce heat and power using a combination of waste, wood chips, and straw incineration, supplemented by less environmentally friendly options like coal when demand exceeds supply. As electricity prices... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity
Just Digital Future Technology has the potential to build a better world but its applications and uses are often biased and can reinforce systems of inequality. We teamed up with our friends at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3)... View Details
- July 1995 (Revised August 1999)
- Teaching Note
Dore-Dore TN
By: Janice H. Hammond and Ananth Raman
Teaching Note for (9-692-028). View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
world. Kanter believes that attaining this higher level requires "deep systemic change ...and a deeper emphasis on human skills that build meaningful community out of mere connections." Based on a landmark project with rare on-site... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
(multidimensional) objective functions of executive participants and their organizations and show how the trio of disruptive forces (disintermediation, disaggregation, and decoupling) that have figured prominently in other industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Motivation and Incentives - Course Catalog
defined, that motivate employees and others associated with an organization to engage in behaviors that further the organization’s value-creating purpose. The course is useful for students in all career tracks and with any industry focus.... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
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Courtney Han Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Lessons from the Field of Systems Change Courtney Han 03 Apr 2024 In recent years, the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
Sugar Limited Harvard Business School Case 508-038 Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single-desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 2
Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a relatively well-coordinated View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
delivery systems take advantage of new approaches for interacting with patients. Historically, telemedicine has been seen by many health care systems as a source of competition; my hope is that more View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward action, as embodied in its... View Details