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Finance - Faculty & Research
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Jennifer Fonstad, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Angel City Football Club: Scoring a New Model." Harvard Business School Case 824-192, March 2024. (Revised April 2024.) The Annenberg Foundation: View Details
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change....
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About - Business & Environment
About Inspiring innovation at the intersection of business and the environment. Mission The Business and Environment Initiative educates, connects, and mobilizes business leaders to address climate change and other environmental challenges. Our goals are to: Engage and...
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- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
the successful management of all financial aspects of a business venture. Sales. Measures skills and behaviors needed to build an effective sales organization and sales channel that can successfully acquire, retain, and serve customers, while View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without controversy. While many hailed it as a way to end world...
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- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
to materialize. In 2014, Amazon had recorded a net loss of $241 million on revenues of $89 billion, in stark contrast to China’s leading Internet player Alibaba, which reported $3.9 billion of net income on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
extensively in the literature. This paper introduces the store liquidation problem to the literature and presents a technique for optimizing key decision variables, such as markdown, inventory, and store closing decisions during liquidations. We show that our approach...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We...
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- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
Frank V. Cespedes, and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 709-441 In 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music industry and the increasing...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Leadership Top-down Participative Focus Structure and systems Culture Planning Programmatic Emergent Motivation Incentives lead Incentives lag Consultants Large/ knowledge-driven Small/ process-driven That is, each of them does promote...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas those in high-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to borrow: 10% lower local tax...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
people who should not be admitted, and rejecting people who should not be rejected.” Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals paints a picture of businesses repeatedly promoting or hiring...
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Business Model. Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and financing, and budget/monitor...
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- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity across idiosyncratic product categories, resulting in a net economic crisis of a type that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today. Government-imposed quarantines,...
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Research In September 2021, the sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation) considered whether to add Schneider Electric to the focus list of companies in which it was prepared to invest. Dedicated to View Details
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
backfire. Sales last year fell 25 percent, resulting in a net loss of $985 million, and the blood-letting continued in quarterly results released this week. In a recent interview, Harvard Business School marketing expert Rajiv Lal, the...
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- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been answered in practice to inform...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4% to 35% of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper argues that two factors account for this rapid increase in "bride importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration....
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