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March 2009
Article

Risk Management and Calculative Cultures

By: Anette Mikes

Enterprise risk management (ERM) has recently emerged as a widespread practice in financial institutions. It has been increasingly codified and encrypted into regulatory, corporate governance and organisational management blueprints. A burgeoning literature of... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Practice; Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Value; Business and Shareholder Relations; Managerial Roles; Culture; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business or Company Management; Financial Services Industry

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01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Light Probable Futures ProNicaragua Right To Play International Robin Hood Foundation Rocky Mountain Institute Save the Children Sesame Workshop Single Stop Social Finance Special Olympics Teach for America... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

in the country in question that the interviewee has made a long-run institutional contribution with his or her organization to that society. Why are some countries chosen for interviews and not others? It is logistically challenging to... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

lower total cost. Further, cannabis businesses pay a much higher share of net income as taxes, compared to other businesses of similar scale. That’s because, according to the Internal Revenue Code, businesses that “traffic” in Schedule I... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

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Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling - MBA

Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

Who really runs the world? We're not talking in a power-brokers-conspiring-in-the-back-room sort of way. Rather, by looking at the institutions that countries themselves have set up to organize the world's affairs, can we determine who is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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News & Commentary - Advancing Racial Equity

Shai Feldman, Brandeis University; Amaney Jamal, Princeton University; David Makovsky, The Washington Institute and Koret Project on Arab-Israel Relations under President Obama; and Khalil Shikaki, Brandeis University. The panel was... View Details

Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Marketing Unit and cofounder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design (D) Institute at HBS. Iavor Bojinov: Those who resist AI risk falling behind Like... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

14 Dec 2016
HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

2004-2007. Results show that firms that are more environmentally damaging, particularly those in countries where they are more exposed to scrutiny and global norms, are less likely to engage in selective disclosure. We discuss contributions to the literature that spans... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

researches tax policy, international finance, and corporate finance. The book grew out of his efforts to make finance more accessible through executive education teaching and his online course Leading with Finance. His previous book, The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Career Support - Business & Environment

search tips and resources. Students can also view and apply for job opportunities, research organizations (login required) that recruit on campus, schedule interviews, and sign up for programs and coaching appointments. 12twenty Internal... View Details

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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise - MBA

Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

and public sector responses. The wide-ranging effects of environmental risks, technological advances, infrastructure challenges, business model innovations, and national and international policy shifts are impacting the financial sector... View Details

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Events - Private Capital Project

David Coats (Managing Director & Co-Founder, Correlation Ventures), and Lea Stern (Assistant Professor, University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI), moderated by Professor Victoria Ivashina (Co-head of HBS Private Capital... View Details

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost fifty years, we theorize a link between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

of International Management Rawi Abdelal, titled “Dignity, the Populist Backlash, and the War in Ukraine: How to Imagine the Next Global Economy.” According to the club’s president, Raj Patil (OPM 42, 2012), approximately 60 people... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

for HBP’s three market groups—Corporate Learning, Education, and Harvard Business Review Group. As a result, total Publishing revenue increased 3 percent from the prior year to $310 million. Publishing’s growing worldwide influence was evident in the strong performance... View Details

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