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- December 2009
- Case
Hungerit
By: David E. Bell, Sarah Morton and Mary Louise Shelman
Hungary's top producer of poultry products is deciding the company's future strategy in the face of new opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe, a changing retail market in Hungary, and the possibility of increased global competition.
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Corporate Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Hungary
Bell, David E., Sarah Morton, and Mary Louise Shelman. "Hungerit." Harvard Business School Case 510-010, December 2009.
- Article
Conversational Receptiveness: Expressing Engagement with Opposing Views
By: M. Yeomans, J. Minson, H. Collins, H. Chen and F. Gino
We examine “conversational receptiveness”—the use of language to communicate one’s willingness to thoughtfully engage with opposing views. We develop an interpretable machine-learning algorithm to identify the linguistic profile of receptiveness (Studies 1A-B). We then...
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Keywords:
Receptiveness;
Natural Language Processing;
Disagreement;
Interpersonal Communication;
Relationships;
Conflict Management
Yeomans, M., J. Minson, H. Collins, H. Chen, and F. Gino. "Conversational Receptiveness: Expressing Engagement with Opposing Views." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 160 (September 2020): 131–148.
- January 2022
- Background Note
Residual Income Valuation Model
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Albert Shin
This note explains the residual income valuation model (RIM), how it relates to "traditional" valuation models, the intuition behind its use, and empirical research related to its value relevance. RIM is theoretically equivalent to the dividend discount model and the...
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Keywords:
Residual Income Valuation;
Valuation;
Research;
Theory;
Measurement and Metrics;
Performance;
Financial Management;
Business Strategy
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Albert Shin. "Residual Income Valuation Model." Harvard Business School Background Note 122-070, January 2022.
- Article
Optimal Taxation When Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources
By: Alexander Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl
Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal tax policy therefore treats future ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match...
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Gelber, Alexander, and Matthew Weinzierl. "Optimal Taxation When Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources." National Tax Journal 69, no. 1 (March 2016): 11–40. (Winner, Richard A. Musgrave prize for best paper published in the NTJ.
Also HBS Working Paper 13-014 and NBER Working Paper 18332.)
- May 2010
- Article
Aggregate Market Reaction to Earnings Announcements
By: William Cready and Umit G Gurun
This analysis identifies a distinct immediate announcement period negative relation between earnings announcement surprises and aggregate market returns. Such a relation implies that market participants use earnings information in forming expectations about expected...
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Cready, William, and Umit G Gurun. "Aggregate Market Reaction to Earnings Announcements." Journal of Accounting Research 48, no. 2 (May 2010): 289–334.
- Web
Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Prepare for future professional opportunities and jumpstart your career by gaining an understanding of financial concepts, terms, and principles. Leading with Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and...
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- August 2022
- Case
One Tiger Per Mountain: The He Family Office
By: Lauren Cohen, Fei Wu and Grace Headinger
Roy He, founder and majority shareholder of his family construction material production company, was preparing to pass down the family business through its first generational handover to his children. His decision would establish his familial legacy and set a precedent...
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Keywords:
Governance Structure;
Family Business;
Family Ownership;
Strategic Planning;
Family and Family Relationships;
Leadership;
Construction Industry;
Canton (city, China);
Canton (province, China);
China
Cohen, Lauren, Fei Wu, and Grace Headinger. "One Tiger Per Mountain: The He Family Office." Harvard Business School Case 223-001, August 2022.
- 2011
- Chapter
Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will
By: Thalia Wheatley and Christine E. Looser
One of my few shortcomings is that I can’t predict the future.
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Keywords:
Free Will;
Neuroscience;
Responsibility;
Prospection;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Science;
Cognition and Thinking
Wheatley, Thalia, and Christine E. Looser. "Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will." Chap. 13 in Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Lynn Nadel, 146–158. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- January 2023
- Case
EKI Energy Services: One Billion Carbon Credits
By: George Serafeim
Within nine months from the time of its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in April of 2021, EKI Energy Services (EKI) shares had increased by more than 8,000%. Equally explosive was the growth of the company’s revenues and Earnings Before Interest, Taxes and Depreciation...
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Keywords:
Carbon Credits;
Carbon Emissions;
Growth;
Business Analysis;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Valuation;
Climate Change;
Accounting;
Valuation;
Transition;
Renewable Energy;
Analysis;
Product Positioning;
India
Serafeim, George. "EKI Energy Services: One Billion Carbon Credits." Harvard Business School Case 123-060, January 2023.
- 06 Nov 2019
- News
Google Buys Fitbit, and Twitter Bans Political Ads
- August 2012 (Revised August 2015)
- Technical Note
Building Cities: A Technical Note
By: Arthur I Segel and Oliver O. Hartleben
World population growth and increasing urbanization will require new cities in the future around the world. This technical note attempts to systematize the key design decisions that developers and policy makers alike must make to be able to proceed.
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Segel, Arthur I., and Oliver O. Hartleben. "Building Cities: A Technical Note." Harvard Business School Technical Note 213-006, August 2012. (Revised August 2015.)
- 22 Dec 2011
- News
Guest post: Eight thoughts on higher education in 2012
- 2016
- Working Paper
Innovation Network
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation...
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Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr. "Innovation Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-033, October 2016.
- 2014
- Chapter
Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain
By: Brian Knutson and Uma R. Karmarkar
Although linked, researchers have long distinguished appetitive from consummatory phases of reward processing. Recent improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of neuroimaging techniques have allowed researchers to separately visualize different stages of...
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Knutson, Brian, and Uma R. Karmarkar. "Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain." Chap. 9 in The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption, edited by Stephanie D. Preston, Morten L. Kringelbach, and Brian Knutson, 163–184. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.
- August 2017 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad
By: Sunil Gupta and Eren Kuzucu
In March 2017, Elsa Pekmez Atan (MBA 2004), was wondering about the future of Enpara.com, a digital-only banking platform of QNB Finansbank. Since its launch in October 2012, Enpara had been successful in attracting over 600,000 customers by appealing to digital savvy,...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Competition;
Banks and Banking;
Business Model;
Product Launch;
Competitive Strategy;
Integration;
Innovation and Invention;
Decision Making;
Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Digital Transformation;
Banking Industry;
Turkey
Gupta, Sunil, and Eren Kuzucu. "Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad." Harvard Business School Case 518-030, August 2017. (Revised June 2018.)
- 17 May 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with AI
Keywords:
Re: Jill J. Avery
- November 2021 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Farfetch: Digital Transformation for Luxury Brands
By: Sunil Gupta, Jill Avery, Elena Corsi and Federica Gabrieli
Farfetch, a global luxury technology platform and digital marketplace had been surfing the wave of digital transformation in the luxury fashion industry since 2008. While the company’s stock price and market valuation had fluctuated since its IPO in 2018, it had...
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Keywords:
Digital Marketing;
Marketplaces;
Retailing;
Internet Marketing;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Marketing Channels;
Brands and Branding;
Luxury;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Digital Transformation;
E-commerce;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
United Kingdom;
Europe;
Portugal;
China
Gupta, Sunil, Jill Avery, Elena Corsi, and Federica Gabrieli. "Farfetch: Digital Transformation for Luxury Brands." Harvard Business School Case 522-051, November 2021. (Revised December 2022.)
- 29 Jan 2016
- News
Lessons Learned from Flint, Michigan
- February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning Revolution in Finance: Cogent Labs and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and William Powley
This case examines the intersection of two firms (Cogent Labs—a machine learning software firm in Tokyo; and Google, the technology infrastructure giant) attempting to exploit the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial services...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Finance;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Model;
Applications and Software;
Infrastructure;
Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Lauren, Christopher Malloy, and William Powley. "Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning Revolution in Finance: Cogent Labs and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)." Harvard Business School Case 218-080, February 2018. (Revised March 2018.)