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- 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar
Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
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Back to Glass-Steagall?
Financial System, warns that “reinstatement of Glass-Steagall would increase the likelihood that the government would bail out a large financial institution in the future.” Meanwhile, the proposed Volker...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
taught to analyze the likelihood of various consequences, these students learn that the best decisions are those that minimize expected costs and maximize expected benefits," the authors write. The best...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
customer's expected value of a transaction - the difference between the price the customer is willing to pay and the store's price (the magnitude of the perceived "bargain"), multiplied by the View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
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Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
over 100 percent in raw and net of market returns over the past two years to determine the likelihood of a crash (defined as a 40 percent drawdown) after a large price run-up....
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
of predictable surprises at the corporate level. United Airlines is one of many companies with serious pension-fund problems. You have to feel a little sorry for a new CEO who came on as part View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
acquisitions, while positive for the developing economies, puts a burden on Asian cultures to “bear the brunt of the change of ownership at local firms,” increasing the View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Staying Afloat
With revenues of $600 million in 1998, the Szczecin shipyard in Poland is one of that country's most notable post-Cold War economic successes, according to an article in USA Today (November 8, 1999). The...
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- 05 Oct 2016
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Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
breadth and diversity of Harvard representing the One Harvard, cross disciplinary approach to innovation that builds community and connection among the ventures. “We hope by building community we will accelerate their development and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished career in housing, community development, and banking informs his...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
can help MBAs no matter what they end up doing. “You’ve got to make sure that you understand the likelihood of failure — no matter how smart or how good the plan is,” says Stig Leschly. “It takes a certain...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Books
also includes a section about Germany's similar experience with Internet commercialization, as well as contributions from ten industry participants and observers. “Unless fundamental changes are made,” Mills says, “another bubble is a certainty, with the View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
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Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
what’s out there to avoid any unpleasant surprises.” Besides similarity of name, search results incorporate information on industry sectors and trademark classes. “What trademark is about is the likelihood...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
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Ears to the Ground
coverage leads to better results, Clark says, and a greater likelihood of a city renewing its subscription. The ShotSpotter process begins with a gunshot, which activates its audio sensors. Data is sent to a...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
consumer deleveraging. This, in turn, has created defaults among financial institutions.” In this context, Kaplan maintains that the financial rescue plan was necessary but not sufficient by itself. “There has to be a second step, and it...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial products are systemically risky, like credit default swaps. What would you do? My proposal is just the opposite of the Treasury’s. I would put the Fed in charge of...
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