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- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
mispriced," Coval remarks. "But we didn't have any sense that it would all come crashing down the way it did—we just thought that the mispricing would be corrected gradually." Stafford adds that neither he nor Coval had...
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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
it's very unlikely that one can pick the winning technology in advance. The lovely thing about a price for low-carbon energy is that it's technology neutral. It tells innovators what we want, and lets them explore the many different ways...
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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
travel. Allow them to really feel like they are living like a local and connecting them with people from local communities as they travel, to get a much better sense of what places are really about. “I think the other way I have tried to...
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- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
This article is a repost from the Social Enterprise Initiative blog. Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the United States Army. My career...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
business model, and the transition from a world in which throwing CO2 up the chimney was free to one in which throwing away CO2 is a costly activity. This won't be easy, but it will be easier than we expect. Between 1942 and 1944, for example, the View Details
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
100 years. The situation may be due in large part to the role of university-based business education from the founding of the Wharton School in 1881 and continuing right up to the present. According to Khurana, the schools first emphasized that managers should carry...
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- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
Oberholzer-Gee saw in TrapGuard, being marketed for the first time to plumbers in Philadelphia, an interesting way to better understand the link between trust and diffusion of new products. With Victor Calanog, a doctoral student at the...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
After ten years of working at McKinsey & Co., where she had become the first female African-American partner, Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89) was ready for a change. "Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
say, ‘Isn’t this ridiculous? Why do they do it this way?’ It’s a useful and fun way to teach business, accounting theory, and the accounting ritual.” In 1990, Merchant accepted an offer from USC’s Marshall School, where he has taught...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
New Series Look at Issues, School News
Alumni interested in learning about the latest HBS faculty research or news about the School now have a new way to do so. The webinar series Trending@HBS will launch on September 27 with Professor Clay Christensen talking about how to...
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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
those things together.” “So we are determined, in whatever way we can, to try to get businesses to understand the kind of corrosive effects that is having on our entire economy, on everything they need to happen in our economy,” he said....
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- Portrait Project
Vibha Kaushik
institutional failures, innovation – mere business buzzwords, or was my education showing me ways to the world I wanted to see? Inequality, women disempowerment, corruption, failing democracy – every challenge that my world faces, my...
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- Portrait Project
Patrick Chun
graduate school halfway across the world; all the way to the smaller, quiet moments he spent teaching me, his grandson, about life. I have the blessing of being able to choose the races I run. A privilege that came not of my own doing,...
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Mary Falvey
now advise early stage companies and help them achieve their "firsts." To today’s women leaders: Don’t beat yourself up because you can’t obliterate the glass ceiling; it will take a few more generations. Stay focused on deploying your unique talents where...
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- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
and McFarlan was a big draw.” Vera and the HBS Club of Charlotte were inspired to present this talk as a way to encourage more alumni engagement with the club. But he quickly realized that all alumni might be interested, and expanded the...
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Margie Kelley
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found...
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- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
"Obamacare"—enjoyed a decidedly lackluster launch. Despite there being 35 million uninsured people in the United States, only 8 million signed up for insurance on the exchange. True, another 5 million people signed up on their...
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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
dealings with one another. To assign human rights obligations to MNEs and their managers risks undermining this ideal. The paper situates this argument in relation to the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
business.” Building with Baker To work its way into the Granite Equity portfolio, a Minnesota business needs more than location in its favor. As Bauerly puts it, they must also share Granite Equity’s wellness culture, family-business...
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Maureen Harmon