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- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
operations. That said, these same women are often more conservative when forecasting financial goals and with raising significant rounds of capital. And, even if they have a big vision, they are less confident in declaring at the outset...
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by HBS Working Knowledge
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
20-person team when your venture is pre-revenue is not impressive; it could be worrisome.” While the forecast is far from sunny, entrepreneurs are still raising funds, Austin notes—and plenty is still possible with little to no financial...
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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment
experiencing more extreme temperatures, increasing droughts and floods, more violent storms, and new plant diseases and insect pests. The United Nations forecasts that by 2050 the world’s population will grow by more than two billion...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
trash collection to snow removal. If the forecast is correct, DSNY will have to clear 5 to 6 inches from 6,500 miles of city streets—a task that involves fitting plows to 2,000 garbage trucks and salt spreaders while continuing to collect...
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- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
turnaround book, but it doesn't work." One continuing problem: the company's growing complexity was choking it. Adding more bricks made products harder to assemble, forecasts harder to determine, and inventory harder to manage....
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- 11 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital
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by Charles C.Y. Wang
- 26 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
rising from an estimated $2 billion in 2017 to about $8 billion in 2019. One forecast shows that spending is expected to jump to $15 billion by 2022. In fact, beauty giant Estée Lauder revealed last week that the company is now spending...
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(7) Financial Statements (1) Financial Strategy (9) Financing and Loans (21) Food (11) Forecasting and Prediction (24) Foreign Direct Investment (5) Forms of Communication (4) Framework (7) Game Theory (4) Games, Gaming, and Gambling (7)...
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- September 2001 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Ocean Carriers
By: Erik Stafford, Angela Chao and Kathleen Luchs
In January 2001, Mary Linn, vice president of finance for Ocean Carriers, a shipping company with offices in New York and Hong Kong, was evaluating a proposed lease of a ship for a three-year period, beginning in early 2003. The customer was eager to finalize the...
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Cash Flow;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Cost of Capital;
Leasing;
Corporate Strategy;
Valuation;
Shipping Industry;
New York (city, NY);
Hong Kong
Stafford, Erik, Angela Chao, and Kathleen Luchs. "Ocean Carriers." Harvard Business School Case 202-027, September 2001. (Revised April 2002.)
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Frost & Sullivan | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Energy Entrepreneurship Toolkit Health Care India Innovating in Healthcare Medical Devices Pharmaceuticals Sustainability Technology Database AttributesCoverage2000 - CurrentCategories Science & Technology Industries International Markets Keywords mobile chemicals...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
terms of achieving underwriting profit? Keywords: Fintech; Underwriters; Big Data; Insurance Companies; Global Warming; Business Model Design; Weather And Climate Change; Weather Insurance; Earnings; Business Model; Forecasting and...
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- 12 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly
forecasting the future landscape of gene editing—a field close to my heart. The goal? To pinpoint where Eli Lilly could judiciously invest today to be at the forefront of tomorrow's medical breakthroughs. It wasn't a simple trend-spotting...
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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
business model and strategy, and prepared a ten-year financial forecast for presentation to the board. Boston City Hall Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) | Boston, MA This summer, as the Digital Engagement Fellow in the City of Boston's...
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Student Research - Doctoral
Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke 01 MAY 2024 | Management Science Human-Computer Interactions in Demand View Details
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BCC Research | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
engineering food and beverage industry instrumentation and sensors manufacturing nanotechnology plastics safety and security energy resources fuel cell technology battery technology internet of things alternative energy life sciences View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
exhaustion after several years of dealing with surprises ranging from shortages and runs on basic goods to the Fed’s limited ability to control or even forecast inflation. Something will also have to be said eventually about the...
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Passport | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Industries International Markets Keywords foreign trade statistics consumer trends consumer finance Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) brands competitors consumer profiles consumers emerging markets forecasts high net worth...
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Harvard Business School Working Papers Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Economics)The world's largest collection of on-line economics working papers, journal articles, and software.Federal Reserve Board: Working PapersSubjects such as monetary policy, credit, and banking regulations; and empirical research on government debt, bond prices...
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- March–April 2023
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Market Segmentation Trees
By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis
Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market...
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Decision Trees;
Computational Advertising;
Market Segmentation;
Analytics and Data Science;
E-commerce;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketplace Matching;
Marketing Channels;
Digital Marketing
Aouad, Ali, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira, and Ryan McNellis. "Market Segmentation Trees." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25, no. 2 (March–April 2023): 648–667.
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
its consumer tissue products business. Management was quite open in declaring this goal. However, experience suggests that investors and analysts generally reward promises of revenue growth much less than they do evidence of cost reductions. In public financial View Details
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by Stuart C. Gilson