Global Financial Crisis - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

individual students. Oscar Tendilla was a young man, a Mexican immigrant, who gets admitted into P-TECH. His family is under severe financial circumstances, and he's significantly behind in grade eight. He believes he probably won't be... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

connectivity. Should Verizon go "above the network"? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-013 Blackstone at Age 30 Since its IPO in 2007 and following the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

Implementing a 'Social Way' for Global Mining The mining giant Anglo American attempts to differentiate itself through its social performance, yet public expectations are still growing. Maintaining a "social license" to operate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says Ballou-Aares, who was selected as a World Economic Forum Young... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-426 Allstate Corporation, 2007-2013 After five years of global financial crises and natural catastrophes,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

to join all of us on the journey as we learn, and revise, and shape the experience and the definition. Justine Hong - MBA ‘19 I recently got in an argument with my mom, telling her she defined success for my sister and me too narrowly. By prioritizing formal... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

opposite effect when depended upon as a substitute. While not apparent yet, a permanent work-from-home model may well start a slow-rolling mental health crisis in the American workforce and a resulting HR nightmare. What might look like... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

quickly and without the kind of massive financial investment a major automaker would require. It was nothing less than a complete rethink of how cars are made. The next year, DARPA called, looking for a way to apply the model to defense... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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