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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
as spirited as it has been during COVID-19, offers significant potential now to help curb the carbon trajectory and accelerate a more sustainable future. Even with the disruptions from COVID, we’re seeing capital flows of over $500...
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ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Promote a dynamic urban marketplace powered by diversity, creative enterprise, and untapped competitive advantages Determine the industry clusters with the highest market opportunity for inner city business growth and job creation Teach...
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- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
and pharmaceuticals. However, in non-R&D-intensive sectors, such as mobile apps and software, the ability to predict success was no better than random. Perhaps that is because it is easier to evaluate technology that has a well-defined set of potential View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
continent is also attracting attention from China, Europe, and the US for its immense mineral resources, human capital and consumer opportunity. While opportunities abound in all sectors, more support is needed on the ground: investment,...
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Margie Kelley
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s growing worldwide influence was...
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- January 2005 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Kohler Co. (A)
Kohler Co., best known for its plumbing fixtures, is a large, private family firm. As part of a recapitalization aimed at preserving family ownership of Kohler Co., nonfamily shareholders, who held 4% of common stock, were required to sell their shares to the company....
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Family Business;
Capital Structure;
Cash Flow;
Stocks;
Price;
Family Ownership;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Valuation
Villalonga, Belen, and Raphael Amit. "Kohler Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 205-034, January 2005. (Revised March 2008.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors
By: Luis M. Viceira and Zixuan (Kevin) Wang
This paper conducts a theoretical and empirical investigation of global portfolio diversification for long-horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country...
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Investment Portfolio;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Diversification;
Capital Markets;
Global Range
Viceira, Luis M., and Zixuan (Kevin) Wang. "Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-085, March 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
inspired entrepreneur into a large R&D staff over a sustained period is next to impossible," Wayne Hosking suggested that these ideas need "to incorporate some analysis of the venture capital model." At the HBS...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn...
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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity
Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer... Julie Battilana Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration Julie Battilana is the Joseph C....
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HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights
was 33.6 percent, compared with 7.3 percent in fiscal 2020. The value of the School's endowment (after the net impact of distributions from the endowment and the addition of new gifts) increased to $5.3 billion, from $4.1 billion a year earlier. View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
Fridge No More, Buyk, and JOKR have either gone bankrupt or suspended operations in the US in spite of $4 billion in venture capital investment last year. This brings to mind the failed investments in fast logistics that accompanied the...
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by James Heskett
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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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
political integration. In particular, they appreciated that European capital market integration could reinforce the case for British membership of the EEC. The resurrection of London as Europe's principal...
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Martha Lagace
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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV in Practice Creating Shared Value in Practice Not all profit is equal—an idea that has been lost in the narrow, short-term focus of financial...
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- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in...
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VCPE Database Comparison
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- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
the relentless quest for adaptation and improvement in the so-called technology sectors seems to fuel the need for experimentation, the nature of experimentation in other sectors, including the high hazard/high reliability industries, may reflect a bias for knowing the...
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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment bankers, stock View Details