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22 Apr 2020
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Oil Prices to Remain Low, Sen Says

31 May 2015
News

The trend towards board term limits is based on faulty logic

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is under threat. The idea of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

01 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs

Organization:Annie McMullen, Harvard Business School Recruiter, University Relations Team, Goldman Sachs Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment... View Details

September 2007 (Revised February 2010)
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Compass Box Whisky Company

Compass Box Whisky Company is facing a changing supply situation and is evaluating switching to a business model with high inventory and long lead times. The company must consider what the change will mean for operations, risk, and measuring profitability. View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Business Model; Profit; Product; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty

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Morgan Hall | About

troubled businesses to profitability became widely known, and investors were eager to support his ventures. J.P. Morgan & Company organized and financed some of the largest corporate mergers of the early... View Details

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

the business models of traditional incumbents and those of potential innovative MSP entrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55341 Oral History and Writing the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (MBA 2017) and Heleen van Poecke (MBA 2017), grew up in small towns in The Netherlands fifteen minutes apart from one another. Yet in all those years, their paths never crossed. Instead, over 3,000 miles away from home, Harvard View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

know they have other choices." Pulling together these considerations, one serial entrepreneur offered this rule of thumb: "If your family comes from a business background and are well-informed about View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

25 Jan 2023
News

The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason

school, he says, and sold bubblegum and baseball cards to his classmates over lunch. Later, Mason enrolled in Howard University’s premed program but switched to the business program by the second semester. There, earning his degree in... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

panel discussion held at Harvard Business School, where several experts talked about how to treat the troubled industry at a time when the year-old Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is still in its relative infancy.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides rich new evidence and insights on green business as it examines its variation between industries and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering Entertainment / Media... View Details

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Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(Jeddah) Serbia FEFA- Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration (Beograd) South Africa Gordon Institute of Business Science (Johannesburg) South Korea Solbridge International School of View Details

22 Feb 2022
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When Losing Money Is Strategic—and When It Isn’t

15 Jun 2016
News

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

Whatever the headlines predict these days, there may still be good news for entrepreneurs. Many successful products, services, and pivotal ideas have been launched during an economic lull, according to Bhaskar Chakravorti, a senior lecturer of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2017
Blog Post

2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Life can get quite busy here for all the right reasons. No matter how demanding it gets, I try my best not to take my time here for granted because these few years have truly been special. This experience has been made possible by this... View Details

09 Sep 2015
News

A Path for Entrepreneurs, When a Start-Up Is Not the Goal

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

The risk taken in a politician’s private investment portfolio is a strong indicator of whether that person will cross legal or ethical lines in office. The riskier the portfolio, the more likely the lawmaker will be involved in at least one scandal, according to new... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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