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1994
Article

Cross-Investments in Transnational Banking: Britain, Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Keywords: Investment; Banks and Banking; Business History; Banking Industry; United Kingdom; Germany; United States

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

memory business. Now another very important decision that was taken at the same time was to sole source the 386. Intel had a series of microprocessors. The microprocessor is the central processing unit. It is the most important piece of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Husk Power

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra

In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk... View Details

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20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

School is at an inflection point, an insight that meant different things to different people. Some focused on the fact that HBS is beginning its second century. Ironically, it's also a moment similar to when the School was founded in 1908, with a View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

hours reduce electricity bills? Perhaps for the first time, small-business owners accustomed to monthly accounting might need to track day-to-day spending so they can react quickly to changing economic conditions. Free and low-cost tools from View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

corruption per se does not prevent rapid economic development, although it does distort it. Modern Turkey has achieved great economic progress whatever the prevalence of corruption. World Bank data shows that Turkey’s per capita income... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without entrepreneurship is central... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

and develop a construction budget and financing plan. Students are asked to evaluate the prospective financials for this development and assess the viability of the development plan and its prospective returns. The case then ends with a change in the fundamental... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level regressions to assess the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has private information about its long-run target for the policy rate and (ii) the central View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2011
Teaching Note

Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO (TN)

By: Michael Chu

Teaching Note for 308-094. View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Investment Return; Financial Institutions; Microfinance; Capital Markets; Competition; Decisions; Banking Industry; Mexico

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10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Francesca Gino Abstract—Although religion is a central aspect of life for many people across the globe, there is scant research on how religion affects people’s non-religious routines. In the present research, we identify a frequent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 1993
Case

Sumiko Ito

By: David A. Thomas

Describes the life and career of the first Japanese female investment banker at Nomura Securities, Sumiko Ito, who later became a partner at Alex Brown, a U.S. investment bank. Organized around the major life events and career transitions Ms. Ito experienced. Set in... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Japan; England; United States

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15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-123.pdf Organizational Toolmaking: Transformations in the Influence of Experts Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk experts in two large U.K.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2007
Op-Ed

Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure

inflation, a stake in the community. As home prices rose, millions of renters, particularly those with less-than-stellar credit, yearned to seize the American dream. But traditional banks shunned "credit-impaired" borrowers.... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Banking; Banking

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507017 ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter Harvard Business School Case 906-409 In 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2018
Book

Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time

By: Geoffrey Jones

Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes risk making the Earth unsustainable within our own lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides... View Details

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19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

leaders on the central problem of increasing the achievement levels of all students by making the elements of large districts work in concert with the strategy. The framework can be useful when evaluating or changing an existing strategy,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses. Next Street was a for-profit business that aimed to increase the growth, profitability, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

government-sponsored organization that was funded with 50 billion yen in equity capital and 10 trillion yen of government-guaranteed funds. Daiei presented the IRCJ with a unique opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of its restructuring strategy which would... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Cross-Investments in Transnational Banking: Britain, Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Husk Power

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

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First Look: March 10, 2009

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Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO (TN)

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Sumiko Ito

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Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure

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Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time

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