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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
Eisenmann (Assistant Professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow); Allen Grossman (Bloomberg Professor of Management Practice in Philanthropy); Peter Tufano (Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management); and David M. Upton (Albert J.... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
lesson in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The risk-management tools and safety margins needed to manage normal disruptions in the market were completely inadequate to handle a major catastrophe. We got rid of the buffers against... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
small can outsmart the large. Exhibit A is the story of Intuit, the financial software provider. Intuit has continued to dominate Microsoft in its niche through intensifying focus, defining the competitive space, listening to customers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
We are NET12, an MIT|HBS startup focused on accelerating a carbonless future by helping corporations reach and sustain their net zero goals efficiently. NetaCarbon - Grace Lam (MBA 2024) - NetaCarbon is a service provider that partners... View Details
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Tools | New Venture Competition
Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation. Team: Rea Savla, MBA 2024; Vishesh Mehta Play Video duration: 1:32 2024 New Venture... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Harvard Business School Case 719-018 Rebuilding Puerto Rico On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria swept over Puerto Rico, devastating the island’s infrastructure and agriculture. The natural disaster was layered atop years of mounting View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Program Policies - HBS Online
learnings of the program. Some programs also have assignments that must be completed as part of your experience. Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting contain required quizzes, and an average score of 50%... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
and values of negotiation beyond formal legal requirements. They address issues such as what we owe our counterparts in the way of candor or disclosure, to what extent we should use financial or legal pressure to force settlement, and... View Details
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Courses by Title - Course Catalog
and Innovating in Financial Services Finance David Scharfstein Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing the Future of Work Entrepreneurial Management Christopher Stanton Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Market Perspectives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
Savingforcollege.com, which Cordero describes as "the Consumer Reports of 529 plans.") The plan is to capitalize on market share down the road: "There is a lot of value in processing millions of dollars of new assets," he remarks. "Our play is with View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
through a community service mentoring project. At first, O'Neill took his young charge to a succession of museums and sporting events in an attempt to show him a reality outside his troubled neighborhood and family life. "After some weeks... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
wealth management and financial services firms support the workings of the market. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-052 El Sistema... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
In discussions that continue to swirl in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of corporate governance's role is often front and center. In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was recounted in the business and financial press, PARC's technological... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
goes beyond financials to describe a number of new programs and initiatives designed to keep HBS at the forefront of management research and participant-centered learning. The Healthcare Initiative, for example, is a multidisciplinary... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
of results we want to achieve in the next round—more of the same, or more of other kinds of results. An investor may say that she wishes to continue to build her financial assets, so she would check the column for "want more of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
life-sciences center of the world, by virtue of its unsurpassed “cluster” of world-renowned universities and teaching hospitals; medical-device, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies; financial firms; and skilled workers. “The leadership... View Details