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- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
financing of large financial intermediaries put the larger financial system at risk. Once you recognize this, it's easy to argue for more regulation, but regulation is difficult, particularly when banks have figured out ways to shift...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
— basic, accelerated, and advanced — allowing students to choose the one that best fits their knowledge and experience. “We wanted to move the program in ways that would pull, not push, students back toward academics,” Dean Robert Joss...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
while working as a stock boy at a Safeway grocery store to help pay his way through the University of Missouri. He received the School’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998, and one year later, OPM graduates honored Marshall by endowing...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
cooperating successfully under a binding, strictly enforceable contract,” observed Malhotra. Whether negotiating a joint venture, a merger, or a prenuptial agreement, Malhotra believes that nonbinding (or less binding) contracts may be one View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
his way to meet a class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — places where only the entrepreneurial survive — are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the...
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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
You can see the subtle changes when a neighborhood is on its way up—streets get cleaner, building facades improve, new businesses start moving in. Across an entire city, however, it’s harder to track such changes, to understand in real...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
managers formulate problems, evaluate their difficulty, define “good enough solutions,” and optimize the ways in which they will solve them in advance of attempting to solve them. The paper introduces both a framework for the analysis of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
MBAs a year, with upwards of 150,000 of those in the United States alone. At HBS, the business of business education is thriving. Applications are on the rise again after trending downward for several years. Only one out of nine...
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- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
for ways to reinvest in the area. “The announcement of 1871 made me start to think about moving back to Chicago from New York,” said Lakshmi Shenoy (MBA 2010), who last year became the organization’s vice president of strategy and...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, would reduce the discussion to a nonproductive, ideological exercise when she observed, “We’ve had 25 years of right-wing ideology saying that the only way to get elected is to run against government.” But I...
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Educational Services
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Double-digit long-term growth might justify bragging rights for any country. But a turbocharged GDP comes at a price, says Eric D. Werker, an associate professor in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at Harvard...
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by Kim Girard
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
global agribusiness company where I had the opportunity to work with farmers in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia. Later, I transitioned into venture capital investing, specifically focusing on tech startups across the...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
are hoping that the financial incentives in the new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) help us underscore the importance of EVs as a solution for the grid to reduce electric loads.” However, Claire admitted that full EV adoption is a long way...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
comprehensive, regional planning and as only one element in a complex mix of interrelated socioeconomic factors. "A lot of businesses that are concerned about the problem have concluded that the best way they can help is by supporting the...
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Garry Emmons
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
collaboration by making information available when and where it's needed. They routinely capture data on processes to discover how work really happens. Finally, they study these data in an effort to find ways to improve execution. Taken...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
the way we go to market, there’s a real need for significant flexibility and nimbleness. That kind of nimbleness is impossible if you’re dealing with an overseas manufacturer. We now understand the vulnerability we have, and by the next...
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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
of the things that we learned was that you could target advertising in a very different way if you were to think about the cable infrastructure differently. So we built another company in the advertising technology space, called Spot...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
resurgence of interest in promoting value-chain development as a way to add value, lower transaction costs, diversify rural economies, and help increase rural household incomes. Using real examples, mostly from African countries, this...
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