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- July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Investment Return;
Measurement and Metrics;
Welfare;
Ghana;
United States
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana." Harvard Business School Case 310-025, July 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
- February 1987 (Revised September 1991)
- Background Note
Foreign Exchange Market, Background Note and Problem Set, The
By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
Discusses the background of the foreign exchange market. This includes information about the participants and how the market operates. The problem set verses students in the arithmetic in the many common foreign exchange problems such as calculating forward premium and...
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Financial Markets
Kester, W. Carl, and Richard P. Melnick. "Foreign Exchange Market, Background Note and Problem Set, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 287-033, February 1987. (Revised September 1991.)
- April 2020 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Singapore: 'Facing Challenges Together'
Since its expulsion from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore had transformed itself from a third world island nation into a vibrant city-state with one of the highest levels of GDP per capita in the world. However, sluggish demand among Singapore's major trade partners began...
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Keywords:
Savings;
Productivity Growth;
Productivity;
Economic Institutions;
Economic Development;
Government And Business;
Government Policy;
Economic Policy;
Country Analysis;
Investment And Savings;
Institutions;
Economic Growth;
Macroeconomics;
Development Economics;
Investment;
Government and Politics;
Trade;
Policy;
Research and Development;
Analysis;
Economics;
Business and Government Relations;
Asia;
Singapore;
Southeast Asia
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Singapore: 'Facing Challenges Together'." Harvard Business School Case 720-036, April 2020. (Revised August 2021.)
- Teaching Interest
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs
By: Tarun Khanna
Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (GCE) is designed for students who are interested in entrepreneurial approaches to the biggest challenges of our time. Grand Challenges are near-intractable, global problems that offer the tantalizing... View Details
- 2014
- Chapter
Banking Union: Challenges and Consequences
By: Huw Pill
Pill, Huw. "Banking Union: Challenges and Consequences." Chap. 10 in Bearing the Losses from Bank and Sovereign Default in the Eurozone, edited by Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, and Joanna Grey, 129–142. Philadelphia: FIC Press, 2014.
- 1993
- Book
Financial Services: Perspectives and Challenges
Hayes, Samuel L., III, ed. Financial Services: Perspectives and Challenges. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
- Jun 19 2018
- Testimonial
Faculty Who Challenge and Inspire
- August 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Kelon (B): Opportunities and Challenges
Supplements the (A) case.
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Huang, Yasheng. "Kelon (B): Opportunities and Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 703-008, August 2002. (Revised August 2002.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions
By: Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman
We explore interventions at the individual level and focus on recognized cognitive barriers from behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Judgments;
Consumer Behavior;
Environmental Sustainability;
Cognition and Thinking;
Prejudice and Bias
Shu, Lisa L., and Max Bazerman. "Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-046, November 2010.
- Research Summary
Investment Decisions and Decision Problems in Professional Investment Management
Jay O. Light is evaluating strategic business decisions in the money management industry as well as problems that arise in the management of very large pools of tax exempt money, particularly pension funds and endowments. From this research he is developing teaching...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to pay his workers...
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James E. Aisner
- Article
Trimmed Opinion Pools and the Crowd's Calibration Problem
By: Victor Richmond R. Jose, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl
We introduce an alternative to the popular linear opinion pool for combining individual probability forecasts. One of the well-known problems with the linear opinion pool is that it can be poorly calibrated. It tends toward underconfidence as the crowd's diversity...
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Jose, Victor Richmond R., Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl. "Trimmed Opinion Pools and the Crowd's Calibration Problem." Management Science 60, no. 2 (February 2014): 463–475.
- July 2019
- Article
Challenges and Opportunities in Software-Driven Medical Devices
By: William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern
The safety and security of medical devices driven by software, the software-development processes, and the need for data collection and privacy, all offer challenges and opportunities for device regulation and clinical care.
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Keywords:
Medical Devices;
Healthcare;
Health Care;
Health Care and Treatment;
Applications and Software;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Gordon, William J., and Ariel Dora Stern. "Challenges and Opportunities in Software-Driven Medical Devices." Nature Biomedical Engineering 3, no. 7 (July 2019): 493–497.
- 2005
- Book
Problems and Cases in Health Care Marketing
Gourville, John T., John A. Quelch, and V. Kasturi Rangan. Problems and Cases in Health Care Marketing. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005.
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
engagement on problem solving and of an organization-wide information campaign. First, the phenomenon of patient-safety information campaigns: Such campaigns increase the frequency of frontline workers'...
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- December 1984
- Article
Misrepresentation and Stability in the Marriage Problem
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "Misrepresentation and Stability in the Marriage Problem." Journal of Economic Theory 34 (December 1984): 383–387.
- Article
Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Danielle Li
Absent explicit quotas, incentives, reporting, or fiscal year-end motives, drug approvals around the world surge in December, at month-ends, and before respective major national holidays. Drugs approved before these informal deadlines are associated with significantly...
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Keywords:
Health;
Economics;
Government and Politics;
Innovation and Invention;
Research;
Science;
Biotechnology Industry;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Danielle Li. "Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems." American Economic Review: Insights 3, no. 1 (March 2021): 67–82.
- 2006
- Article
The Numbers Problem
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Keywords:
Problems and Challenges
Hsieh, Nien-he. "The Numbers Problem." Philosophy & Public Affairs 34, no. 4 (2006): 352–372.
- December 1983
- Case
ADM and the Corn Gluten Feed Problem
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "ADM and the Corn Gluten Feed Problem." Harvard Business School Case 584-073, December 1983.
- March 2017
- Article
Challenges for Empirical Research on RPM
By: Alexander MacKay and David A. Smith
This article discusses the empirical challenges that researchers face when demonstrating the existence and effects of resale price maintenance (RPM). We outline three approaches for finding price effects of RPM and the corresponding hurdles in data and methodology. We...
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Keywords:
Antitrust Issues And Policies;
Antitrust Law;
Resale Price Maintenance;
Welfare Economics;
Price;
Competition;
Research
MacKay, Alexander, and David A. Smith. "Challenges for Empirical Research on RPM." Review of Industrial Organization 50, no. 2 (March 2017): 209–220.