Filter Results
:
(1,393)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,393)
- People (7)
- News (580)
- Research (588)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (115)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,393)
- People (7)
- News (580)
- Research (588)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (115)
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March left the startup world reeling. The biggest lender to fail since the 2008 financial crisis, SVB had become the preferred funder of the startup, tech, and venture capital worlds. Its quick...
View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the...
View Details
Keywords:
by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
809-073 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In the market turmoil of late 2008, Mark...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Startup Lottery: Your Guide to Navigating Risk and Reward. It's a guidebook for people considering a career in the world of startups—or in the midst of navigating its complexities. And in this conversation, Bessalel tells us why job...
View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
time breaking through the corporate shields that Bezos has erected. (A former analyst recalled to us that on a trip to the company, she saw the World War II slogan “Loose Lips Sink Ships” on a bathroom wall.) So we wondered if there...
View Details
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
between us and some other firms relates to how we think about the CEO. A couple of years ago, we analyzed our successful companies across multiple dimensions. The one trait of all our successful companies was that the CEO we backed at View Details
Keywords:
by Lauren Barley
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
manages $3.8 billion As part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II, André Jakurski's father forged documents to help those in danger change their identities. "My parents lost everything during the war," explains the...
View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- Web
Aldrich Hall | About
eliminated from the 1920s campus construction for economic reasons, and growing enrollments in the wake of World War II stretched the limits of provisional facilities in Baker and Carpenter Halls. With extensive input from Dean Donald K....
View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
similarities to a robust process to investigate accidents and near-misses. And both quality and safety management involve performing tasks according to specifications. Another study looks at the world of socially responsible investments...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Author:Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Executive Counsel 7, no. 1 (February/March 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the Article: http://www.executivecounsel.info/v7/i1/lessons-from-the-crisis-about-governing-financial-institutions/ Multinationals Make...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
The business scene in the Islamic world may be as complex as its 1.3 billion people, but one rule is nevertheless quite straightforward for Westerners who want to do deals. "One thing you do not bring up is the Palestinian-Israeli...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
They show that funding loans to these borrowers lead to better economic outcomes for the borrowers and higher returns for the fintech platform. See Marco’s other research here , Dimuthu’s other research here , and Don’s other research...
View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
change behavior? And usually it is a collaborative process. So for example, in myeloma, we had to start by attracting scientists to the field at the MMRF. If we had to do grant funding and get them in, but then we didn't understand the...
View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
founder Charlie Javice, the nation’s largest bank had been “conned” after it acquired her company for $175 million. “To cash in, Javice decided to lie,” JPMorgan’s suit said. FTX under Sam Bankman-Fried used investor funds to bet on...
View Details
Keywords:
by Bill George
- Web
LGBTQ+ Community - MBA
Out MBA Fellowship does not have a funding component, Reaching Out MBA Fellows do receive a number of benefits. Organizations and Conference Affiliations The HBS Admissions team attends a number of LGBTQ+ conferences and events each year...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a...
View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
Summit reins to five of their partners in 2001. “From the very beginning, we knew that we wanted to build the kind of firm that could succeed without us,” says Stamps, whose low-key, friendly manner belies—or perhaps accounts for—his remarkable success. While Summit’s...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
View Details
- 06 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1
year of exploring the direct-to-consumer market. Schlesinger considers it a perfect module for their subject and a unique opportunity for all MBA students. “We have all the flexibility in the world to design something that is uniquely...
View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
the first company to develop a dedicated corporate governance solution to address the needs of small-cap public and institutionally funded private companies. Lean Forward Media Prita Uppal Michelle Crames Jeff Norton Business Track...
View Details