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Country & International | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Guides Country & International Country & International This resource guide culls sources for international business research and country-specific data. Topics covered in these databases include visas, income distribution, and economic...
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Georgiades Business Track Runner-Up Zumper allows tenants to search for and close annual apartment leases in a much more transparent manner. 2012 Social Enterprise Track eTransitions (now Careport Health) Lissy Hu, HBS/HMS; Kira Yugay,...
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- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
income for many people. During 2021, as travel resumed, Airbnb hosts collectively earned $34 billion across 6 million active listings. One possible reason that Airbnb prominently features the names and faces of hosts on its site is to...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of...
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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
brought greater transparency and more discipline and efficiency to an undisciplined, inefficient market. Unfortunately, there's no doubt that more and better information means it will be harder to be the alpha, as Professor Andre Perold...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
architecture in their own organizations. Slides Improving Performance with Operational Transparency Professor Ryan W. Buell (MBA 2007, DBA 2012) + More Info – Less Info Conventional wisdom suggests that the more contact an operation has...
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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
of change when you have 100 organizations working on an interconnected set of issues. Morino: I'm afraid there's also a tremendous reluctance within the sector to deal with performance results in an open, honest, and transparent way....
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
citizens; in Afghanistan, the average annual income at the time was about $100. (Current estimates are more like $700.) Roshan, which translates from the Dari and Pashto languages to “light,” was a name chosen by the Afghan people through...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
transparency for shareholders and other stakeholders. The primary argument is that, without high standards of personal integrity posed from within, Section 404 will be of limited value. As John Louk put it, "I personally believe that...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
it’s important that they be transparent about their past history and not try to hide anything—which in itself can raise alarm bells. “Everyone does checks and looks at what’s available on social media, so it’s all discoverable anyway,”...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
its commitment to transparency at a time when the School is involved in a $500 million capital campaign. It also highlights the School’s unusual business model. Unlike most schools, HBS does not accept government and third-party faculty...
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- 11 Jan 2021
- News
Strengthening Democracy
University Professor Rebecca Henderson Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know. By Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. The Role of American Business Leaders in a Challenging Election Season...
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- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
is critical to get ready.” Specifically, small to medium projects are getting the largest boost. “Previously, a multi-family home in a low income community was often too small a project for a bank to finance installation of a solar...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
transparent spirit of Kickstarter with the rigors of Securities and Exchange Commission oversight. The world of so-called equity crowdfunding holds the promise of democratizing both ends of the earlystage investment game, its advocates...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
their income for housing, and rejecting "credit-impaired" borrowers with less-than-stellar records. Credit card companies have raised fees and increased penalties. Consumers have emerged as both victims and perpetrators. They...
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- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
transparent capital markets, stable legal system, innovative scientific and university systems, tolerance for income disparity, and culture that rewards people who pursue opportunities after assessing the...
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by Staff
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax...
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by Ann Cullen
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Experiment By: Cole, Shawn, Xavier Giné, and James Vickery Abstract—Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Argentina and Chile over recent decades. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50182 forthcoming Management Science Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency By: Buell, Ryan W., Tami Kim, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
away some of the new mass-transit passes and implied that students could expect more of the same if they should be the ones to oversee the SA budget. Diversity, creativity, and transparency were the watchwords of Sunil Nagaroj and Serge...
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