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- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
River and encircled Ojibwe Territory. For Tim Murdoch (HBS MBA 1990), a semi-retired independent consultant, water and climate change are new passions. He took a “gap year off” in 2020, and since then, he said, “I have invested a lot of... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
2012, Phil Strause (MBA 1967), a former boss from an early career stint at Deloitte, sent Lo a business plan for a vertical farming company. She forwarded it on to the German investor, whose family, it so happened, had major European... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
national governments and international institutions would prove too weak to deal with these forces. On the positive side, many of the leaders we spoke with viewed business as part of the solution: Companies could help ameliorate the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the impact of the Yale University endowment's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, it was also an opportunity to View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
investigate whether stocks in the euro area have moved from a regime in which national stock markets were priced with discount rates that were predominantly country specific, to a regime in which national... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
and investments to modernize the Bureau of Internal Revenue, expand and improve small-scale, community-driven development projects in rural areas, and rehabilitate a secondary national road in Samar province... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Business School Case 217-062 The U-Turns of National Truck Stops Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
the process of creating and evaluating new business and social impact ventures. Winners & Runners-Up Finalists 2024 Winners Play Video duration: 1:31 2024 New Venture Competition Winner, Business Track: Crop Diagnostix Crop Diagnostix is redefining precision View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
its plans to develop radical innovation even when it thinks highly of the market potential for the radical innovation. The incumbent does so to avoid validating the high market potential to the entrant, who may otherwise be encouraged to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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businesses. Career Focus: If you are going to manage or invest in large companies, you will need to understand how to manage your top line, your sales organization. This course draws heavily although not exclusively on technology... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
period 2002-2009 by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), one of the largest development banks in the world. In our fixed effect regressions, we find that BNDES' allocations do not seem to affect firm-level operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
competitiveness in the face of the territorial extent of the United States and its ability to integrate a dynamic industrial sector with ample raw material supplies, agriculture commodities, markets, and labor into one View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
U.S., KP is facing an enormous potential liability from future costs of obesity and diabetes. Given low turnover in health plan membership, how should they respond to this crisis? How should they invest in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows, exchange rates, monetary and fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
aimed at promoting spatially defined agribusiness/agro-industrial investments and strengthening agribusiness and agro-industrial competitiveness. It analyzes five agroterritorial planning and policy... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
representing pharma, energy, and investment discussed their responses, and those of other corporations, and the critical roles that partnerships and collaboration with US and other non-Ukrainian companies can play in supporting their... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
and my fellow Indian community member’s friends, families, mentors, partners are struggling to stay alive, and this is the time to stand up for them just like they supported and invested in us.” MAY 12 After watching the COVID-19 crisis... View Details