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Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets
Pakistan Syed Babar Ali Founder, Lahore University of Management Sciences (Education; Government) “I felt, having been in industry and business for a fair amount of time, that you could so much with management, but not enough unless you...
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- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
How can you negotiate when the rules suddenly change, and no one knows whether your particular market is headed up or down? Regrouping from the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to failed labor negotiations, National Hockey League (NHL) teams and players faced...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
Economic Budgeting for Endowment-Dependent Universities
By: John Y. Campbell, Jeremy C. Stein and Alex A. Wu
To understand their financial position, universities need to understand the long-term implications of their operating revenues and costs in relation to the financial assets they have available. Standard budgeting procedures that focus on one or two years at a time and...
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Campbell, John Y., Jeremy C. Stein, and Alex A. Wu. "Economic Budgeting for Endowment-Dependent Universities." Working Paper, March 2024.
- October 25, 2022
- Article
Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business
By: José A. Tiburcio, Lino Miguel Dias and Robert S. Kaplan
Subsistence dairy ranchers in Central America struggle to stay afloat during the dry season when grass is scarce. Global life sciences company Bayer has launched a program to enable them to produce their own corn silage feed. The results of this program are helping to...
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Sharing Economy;
Innovation;
Economic Growth;
Poverty;
Production;
Supply Chain;
Social Enterprise;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Central America
Tiburcio, José A., Lino Miguel Dias, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 25, 2022).
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How Do Fairness Definitions Fare? Examining Public Attitudes Towards Algorithmic Definitions of Fairness
By: Nripsuta Saxena, Karen Huang, Evan DeFilippis, Goran Radanovic, David C. Parkes and Yang Liu
What is the best way to define algorithmic fairness? While many definitions of fairness have been proposed in the computer science literature, there is no clear agreement over a particular definition. In this work, we investigate ordinary people’s perceptions of three...
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Saxena, Nripsuta, Karen Huang, Evan DeFilippis, Goran Radanovic, David C. Parkes, and Yang Liu. "How Do Fairness Definitions Fare? Examining Public Attitudes Towards Algorithmic Definitions of Fairness." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (2019).
- 2018
- Book
High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences
By: Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U.S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect economic growth,...
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Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner, eds. High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- 07 Mar 2019
- HBS Seminar
Petra Moser, NYU Stern School of Business
Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation in Africa?
The historical and social science literature is divided about the importance of metropolitan blueprints of colonial rule for the development of colonial states. We exploit... View Details
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History of Excellence - Doctoral
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree. This change expands the partnership between HBS and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), and more accurately reflects the structure and emphasis of those programs and the...
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- 05 Dec 2014
- News
Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
understanding that I could straddle the worlds of science and finance with a dual expertise that has proven advantageous. It also has allowed me a comfort with the fact that I was creating a career that few had created before me. —Gregory...
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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance Authors: Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Andy J. Yap Publication: Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Humans and other animals express power through open,...
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Martha Lagace
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HBS Application Tips from MBA Admissions - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:...
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- 09 Oct 2020
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4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech
Life Sciences program because of the emphasis on ethical decision making, and ultimately chose the program with the goal of becoming an impactful biotechnology executive who is able to effectively deliver transformative therapies to...
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- 2016
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Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of...
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Hoffman, Andrew J. Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling. Routledge, 2016.
- 11 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?
political orientation of respondents. “That’s not too surprising in the context of the United States, where we conducted the study, where there are strong beliefs about the importance of hard work.” In a second study, the researchers asked parents and children in View Details
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Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:...
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Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID MD/MBA MS/MBA Biotechnology:...
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- November 2015 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability
In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial crisis. As the first outsider ever recruited to lead the company, Polman lost little time in challenging the...
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Keywords:
Globalized Firms and Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Competitive Strategy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Consumer Products Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 916-414, November 2015. (Revised August 2016.)
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,...
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by Dina Gerdeman