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- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
industries from apparel, textiles & fashions to manufacturing and robotics. These reports will help to educate you quickly on an industry by providing a synthesized overview of market and industry trends, as well as industry... View Details
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
determine direction and how hiring can impact that direction. Working in an ultra-tight job market for a growing company—and with years at Bain Capital’s private equity group giving her insight on the importance of strong teams—Gulliver... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Profile
Evgeny Koudryavtsev
capital at the time. In the fall, TPG closed its first deal in Russia." International perspective Evgeny decided to invest time in an MBA to learn the best practices in general management. "In investing, it is important to... View Details
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For Harvard Business School professor Frances X. Frei, the time and place was one morning at home while reading The New York Times. An article on the front page of the Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details
- Student-Profile
Fanele Mashwama
regulation. In the first, he is looking at episodes of capital flight in emerging markets and the way that the currency composition of firm liabilities can have serious ripples effects in times of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
if one excludes new start-ups, most new capital is provided by debt. Of course, liquidity in the stock market does enable investors to capture gains on their investments, and it also enables mergers and acquisitions. To provide adequate... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
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What We Do | Research Associates
What We Do Research Associates have the time and resources to dig deep in their research, with the guidance of faculty who are thought leaders in fields ranging from entrepreneurship to finance to organizational behavior. Play Video Play... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Cathedral. Even the design of the HBS campus began as an architecture competition. Contests work well when we don't know what the right approach may be to a problem. Today they're used in a variety of situations, from creating logos to software code. "Spot labor" View Details
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Orkun Kilic
Sometimes leadership is cultivated over a period of years; other times it arises in the moment. When an earthquake struck Istanbul in 1999, Orkun Kilic immediately seized the initiative and led a team that saved three people from the... View Details
Clarence M. Woolley
With the financing help of JP Morgan, Woolley’s American Radiator came to control just about every heating equipment manufacturer in the United States. Seeing that a greater market for gas radiators existed in Europe than in the United... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Profile
Alika Phipps
applying her marketing skills to her postgraduate ambition: to return to Haiti and help her family rebuild its businesses. “Our factory collapsed in the earthquake,” she explains. “Fortunately, no one was in the building at the View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
tracking outcomes with employers) and then connecting students with the best jobs. Employers were enduring long project wait times – six months to a year after the sale to install – because they couldn’t find enough skilled trades labor.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a sample of firms with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
"I think Friedman will cast the longer shadow . . . the expansion of markets has speeded up the process of globalization . . . the corporate power of multinationals has not been as dominant as Galbraith had envisioned." In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
No one likes to waste time standing in line. So why don't more people try to bribe their way to the front? Should companies allow some customers to move to the front of the line for a hefty fee? Is there a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
paid service arrangements." For City Year and Timberland, the transition occurred when a cofounder of City Year met with two top company executives to thank them for their donation. "The meeting was important," recalls Timberland View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we... View Details