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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Management L.P. in 2008, 130/30 Funds and a Low Volatility Strategy Harvard Business School Case 209-047 In early July of 2008, William (Bill) Jacques, Chief Investment Officer at Martingale Asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
multiplier firms and megaprojects engaged in sustainability-related initiatives, we also explain the value of learning logic, in contrast to blueprint logic, for leading change for sustainability. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
the Middle East today to capitalize on decades of missed economic and business opportunities. In how many other regions of the world can a company establish a manufacturing base only 150 km from its head office and significantly reduce... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
financial crises (we were lucky to have thought of that over a year ago), and on salesmen. There's been growing interest in the topic of salesmanship over the last several years. In 2008, the University of Reading hosted a conference... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
CCP relied on the manipulation and distribution of the national land supply either to stimulate economic growth or to rein in an overheating economy. China’s land institutions, therefore, share “complementarities” with fiscal and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
plagued with problems, as Oishi explains over a pot of chrysanthemum tea in an apartment building in the western Tokyo suburb of Yoga, where Mediva occupies several units as office space. The government is reducing the number of... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
consider applying. For some of those students, the largest barrier in considering HBS may be a financial one. Such was the case for both Solana of Mexico and Ruwende of Zimbabwe. "I think the biggest challenge was to get all the funds... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-102.pdf Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Belén Villalonga Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
financial details of the stallion business are simple enough but require some explication. If a horse is successful at the track, its owners are courted by breeding farms that hope to manage his career at stud. “When you stand a horse for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
it’s also about overcoming biases and coming out a winner, even when the odds are against you. I am such a fan that I even attended the Jane Austen Festival, in Bath, in 2010. —Fariha Ansari Javed (PLDA 18, 2014) is the chief strategy... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
Second, the chief diversity officer, Ted Childs, acts as a partner with the CEO as well as coach and adviser to other executives. In addition to educating them on specific issues, as he did when the company decided to offer domestic... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
should emulate that posture: “Let us provide you backbone financial and other needed resources, rather than tell you how to educate kids.” In the future—especially post-COVID-19—companies should place particular focus on creating... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus has led to relationships with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
saw an opportunity and need for entrepreneurship. This family background—and the potential for addressing an industry niche, along with his commitment to raising the profile of hidden talents of individuals with ASD—led him to found Specialisterne. Specialisterne now... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
rewarding to operate from a place of strength. Be unapologetic about protecting your time with your family. You’ll make mistakes, but over time you will hone the ability to know what to attend and what to miss.” —Eva Heyman (MBA 2002), EVP, View Details