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- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
become more fundamental as advertisers target their advertisements with greater precision. In the paper that follows, the author attempts to identify the circumstances that make advertisers most vulnerable, notes adjusted contract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host government bears many of the residual...
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- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small welfare costs. All other choices,...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
Enterprise Capital Markets Harvard Business School Case 307-078 Seeking to impact global poverty and philanthropy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar donates $100 million to Tufts University for a trust restricted to investment in microfinance....
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2020
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Faculty Books Published in 2020
fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass...
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Annual Report FY20 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
2 years. Libraries have been a critical part of my success in life as places that spark my imagination and satisfy my curiosity and Baker is no exception.- MBA class of 2019 Baker for Executive Education Baker research specialists View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
your relative competitive position—that the demographics of those workers are such that a more targeted offering to them might reduce turnover and enhance productivity in ways that wouldn’t really affect other workers in the company...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
timescales not just of days and weeks but of decades—something that can’t be done with gusting winds and fickle sunshine. “We know how much power we’re going to get out of this for the next 40 years,” Smith says. The potential market for...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
specifically targeted services for that population. But in other cases, those people come to us for the more generalized services. Fuller: Well, with that broad population that you’re serving, how do you structure your approach to helping...
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- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are hoping to forestall a third...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
also acknowledging that the education sector is not where we want it to be. So maybe you can tell us a little bit more about the specific market failure or the needs that Propel America addresses. In the traditional model, someone...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Stephen Moret on democratizing access to education and opportunity The president & CEO of Strada Education Foundation on aligning post-secondary education, economic mobility, and labor market demand. How does inclusive workforce...
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- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
collectivism) than do female stereotypes. In Studies 1 and 2, using different measures, Americans rated men as less collectivistic than women, whereas Koreans rated men as more collectivistic than women. In Study 3, bicultural Korean Americans who completed a survey in...
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- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
competitive pressures in a saturated market. As 2018 dawned, all parties were assessing the deal’s implications. Had the stock market overreacted to news of the deal? Why was Amazon buying Whole Foods? What were the long-term implications...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
Company magazine as one of the top socially entrepreneurial organizations in America, Year Up was started with private funding and is supported by corporate partnerships. Its business model is based in part on market demand for...
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- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
buyer characteristics. Consider the experiences of condo developers targeting retirees who wanted to downsize their homes. Sales were weak until the developers realized their business was not construction but transitioning lives. Instead...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
close association between the characteristics of actors’ environment and the processes of network formation among actors. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50445 Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
percent of its operating revenue came from a dwindling endowment, and the school had been through four executive directors in two years. Relations with the neighboring town of Harlan, the county seat, were at an all-time low: The nonprofit had View Details