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- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
feeds the average sports junkie's need for speed and excitement. "I don't know if you know it, but a Tesla is almost as quick from 0 to 60 as a Ferrari," Higgins says. "The way electricity transfers power is quite...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
enterprises as it is to startups. Gaining Speed Following Stevenson's return to HBS, two events in the early 1980s helped shape the study and scope of entrepreneurship at the School. The first, a 1983...
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- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Background Note
Understanding Economic Value Added
By: Mihir A. Desai, Fabrizio Ferri and Steve Treadwell
Explores the concept of economic value added (EVA) and its practical applications as a management control system for performance measurement and incentive compensation. Explains how EVA is measured and explores some of the adjustments to financial statements that are...
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Value
Desai, Mihir A., Fabrizio Ferri, and Steve Treadwell. "Understanding Economic Value Added." Harvard Business School Background Note 206-016, November 2005. (Revised July 2006.)
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
of the most widely implemented Agile operating approaches) and also a former fighter pilot, draws on his experience of landing a jet on a heaving aircraft carrier. He describes determining a glide path to...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- Article
Believe in Vaccine Bets Like Bill Gates's
Commitment of public or private funds upfront speeds development, production, and distribution.
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Coronavirus;
Vaccine;
Financing;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Product Development;
Production;
Distribution
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Believe in Vaccine Bets Like Bill Gates's." Bloomberg Opinion (April 28, 2020).
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
On the first day at HBS, all first-year students meet their sections – a mini 94-student family amidst the larger cohort of 938 students. To get to know one another, we were given a prompt inspired by a bet someone made with Hemingway...
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- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
said in his speech, if we leave for a 9am meeting at 8:30am, and we know it will take us an hour to get there, we don’t think of ourselves as late until the clock hits 9am. This is how it is with climate change. We are already late, even...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
which they post and track different versions of the same job listing, adjusting the language to gauge how and whether it affects who applies for the job. If your company might be a good fit for this line...
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All Industries
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
and excited she was to move here all the way from South Africa. What has also helped with the adjustment as an international couple arriving at HBS, is that Azrah has been able to take advantage of all that...
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- 22 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions
- May 2000
- Case
Intel 64 Fund
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Laila Partridge of Intel's Corporate Business Development group has been charged to create a special investment fund to speed the adoption of a new chip architecture. The last architecture upgrade, from 16 to 32 bits, had needed almost a decade to become fully adopted....
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Venture Capital;
Investment;
Technology Adoption;
Innovation and Management;
Computer Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Intel 64 Fund." Harvard Business School Case 800-351, May 2000.
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
Considering an international assignment? Working abroad can be a pivotal juncture in one’s career. Yet making a successful transition to another country isn’t just a question of adjusting to a new culture —...
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- 30 Apr 2020
- News
Five Key Insights on Leading Courageously During a Crisis
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
adjust those spans as if on sliders to make employees more effective.To understand what determines whether a job is designed for high performance, you must put yourself in the shoes of your organization's...
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by Robert Simons
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
he said "our best policy is to promote economic liberty so that individuals and corporations can adjust to changes in society, technology, the economy, the environment and politics stop trying to make government the engine View Details
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by James Heskett
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
speed from launch to maturity is faster than ever before. Marketers can do three things to delay the inevitable forces of commoditization. Innovate. A new product that better meets consumer needs, even an...
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by John Quelch
- 01 Sep 2021
- News
Can We Train for Trust?
- February 2005 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Liston Mechanics Corporation
By: Marc L. Bertoneche
Reviews, through a rather simple and straightforward situation, the various methods of valuation--free cash flow, weighted average cost of capital, equity cash flow, adjusted present value, multiples, etc.
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Bertoneche, Marc L. "Liston Mechanics Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 205-070, February 2005. (Revised January 2012.)
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
recently a mere price "spike" in oil, we may be entering an era in which we have to adjust our thinking to prices that fluctuate around, say, $40 per barrel, a level long thought to be unsustainable even by OPEC, the...
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by James Heskett
- Web
The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
long-term commissions, a source of income, and national exposure through corporate publications and national magazines. Russell Aikins. Speeding to market -- coiling, South Chicago Works, Carnegie-Illinois...
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