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- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
prescriptions for companies, investors, and policymakers seeking ways to improve the industry's performance. According to Pisano, the biotech industry's problems stem from its special character as a science-based business. This character poses three unique business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
participants understand the impact they can have on their community and the world through business leadership. 87 Participants More on SVMP Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning GloColl seeks to build an international... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
with the Japanese," says M. James Kondo (MBA 1997), Twitter's managing director, East Asia, explaining the social-media company's popularity in Japan. "Japanese was the first non-English language that Twitter supported—we now support over 30 languages—and Tokyo was... View Details
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
increased by $2 million from the prior year to $75 million, reflecting planned expansion in these activities across the School. Debt Service HBS finances major capital projects with a mix of three sources of funding. The most important... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
Kristina Wang (MBA 2020) is an MBA student at HBS who just completed her first year and is currently interning at Denali Therapeutics before her second year. I did not expect myself to become interested in biotechnology. Growing up in... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
has similar distribution partners in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Argentina. Both companies are affiliated with the Stiftung Solarenergie International Network for Rural Development, a German foundation dedicated to development aid. The... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
but when a developer is clearly trying to do the right thing, you need to be willing to say ‘yes, okay.’” While acknowledging that change is inevitable, and even appropriate, in a dynamic international city such as New York, Zuckerberg... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
lecturer in 1959 after a decade in Ford Motor Company’s finance department. Promoted to full professor in 1964, he was named the first incumbent of the Herman C. Krannert Professorship of Business Administration in 1969. He retired from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
When Cristina Ros Blankfein and Jennifer Ross returned from their FIELD 2 expeditions, they were both feeling the entrepreneurial buzz that an international travel experience often spawns. But the idea that... View Details
- Web
Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020) - 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
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
is HBS’s research funded? Research conducted by our faculty is financed by internal funds, which in turn depend on contributions from alumni and friends, as well as revenues from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details
- Web
The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground - 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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Meet the Latino Student Organization - 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
- March 2011 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Bridging the GAAPs
By: Gwen Yu
Inconsistencies in accounting treatment across countries are a major obstacle for global equity investment. Adoption of a single accounting standard (IFRS) has been received with much excitement, where apples to apples comparison across countries will become easier.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Private Equity; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Management; Standards; Valuation
Yu, Gwen. "Bridging the GAAPs." Harvard Business School Case 111-114, March 2011. (Revised September 2014.) (Included in Harvard Business School's Premier Case Collection.)
- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
China: To Float or Not To Float? (E)- ABB Investment in China
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
In July 2005, China revalued its currency by 2.1% and adjusted its exchange rate regime toward a more market-based system. ABB, a global power and automation technologies company based out of Switzerland with operations in China, was among those companies confronted... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; International Relations; Problems and Challenges; Value Creation; China; Switzerland
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (E)- ABB Investment in China." Harvard Business School Case 706-035, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Lovett, Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
his wife's salary as a sales representative at Wang, Shafir struggled to grow his business, barely keeping ahead of his creditors each month. Finally in 1993, new financing from another relative provided enough cushion to allow Shafir to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne