Filter Results:
(3,068)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,068)
- People (6)
- News (931)
- Research (1,689)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (36)
- Faculty Publications (794)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,068)
- People (6)
- News (931)
- Research (1,689)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (36)
- Faculty Publications (794)
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Mortgage Debt on Homes Other Than Farm Homes at the Fourteenth Census, 1920 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923). Ham, Arthur H. A Credit Union Primer; an Elementary Treatise on Cooperative Banking (New York City: Division... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
“Balloon Dog (Blue), 2005” by Jeff Koons sold for an undisclosed amount as part of a May Paddle8 auction. (Photo courtesy of Paddle8) When the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan decided to produce just one copy of their album Once Upon A... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
It's past midnight and the Minister of Finance and Economy is home early from work, fumbling around in the kitchen of his spartan apartment, trying to find something to eat. He's two years into the job, but meals and sleep still occur... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
value for customers, and extraordinary returns to investors. Neither had extensive schooling in business administration. John Bogle earned a liberal arts degree from Princeton. Herb Kelleher received his from Wesleyan, with majors in... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
highlight why promoting entrepreneurship globally has become an important policy agenda. From the perspective of entrepreneurs and investors, however, little research has been devoted to providing insights into how to successfully... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
provide an order to the economy. We cannot live with one without the other." Kamal Gupta noted that, "in the case of an economy that is coming out of poverty, like... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
Knowledge. [Image: alvarez] Related Reading Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought Research Paper: Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
to deliver desired outcomes our “gravest competitive weakness,” the authors propose their solution: an eight-point plan for Washington, recommending changes that they say would have impact within two to three years, such as streamlining... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked the potential to have much of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
what you mean by the “circular economy” and what you do at Closed Loop Partners? The circular economy is simply a system focused on minimizing waste and making the most of the resources we already have. That’s in contrast to the linear... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
Jake Cusack (MBA 2012) is cofounder of CrossBoundary, an investment firm that helps companies explore business opportunities in frontier and developing markets. In this interview, he explains how he and his partners focus their efforts on... View Details
- Profile
Tony He
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I studied biomedical engineering and worked in health economics research. I learned useful technical skills, but I looked to expand my thinking. Business school was a chance for me to study the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
economies getting behind the wheel in the coming years, automakers have an added responsibility: For the industry to maintain its social license to operate, it must ensure its growth does not come at the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
classmates at Harvard Business School, and became fast friends over their passion for the gig economy and the future of work. They both spent their summer before HBS working with fintech-focused venture capital funds in India and the US,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
world, the AMP program underscores the necessity of a global perspective and an understanding of different cultures and markets." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "The free market is the best system for allocating resources, but never forget... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons I learned from HBS Peek
being informed about a wide range of disciplines and understand how they impact our economy in general. 6. Empathy as Part of HBS Learning ExperienceEmpathy can make a difference in everything we do as humans including our professional... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Government, and the International Economy Unit—often works with HBS’s 15 global research centers and offices to ensure that different countries and sectors of the industry are well represented. Alvarez’s research has frequently taken him... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
The Decline & Fall of Europe by Francesco M. Bongiovanni (MBA 1980) (Palgrave Macmillan) Bongiovanni gives an overview of the intractable challenges Europe faces today: the unsustainability of current entitlement levels, the question of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Differentiation: Implications for Corporate Strategy." Reinhardt, who joined the faculty in 1991, currently teaches the required MBA course Business, Government, and the International Economy as well as the elective Business and the... View Details