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- 29 Feb 2024
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IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
to different players in this quest. From incumbents in traditional businesses revamping processes and technologies to account for emissions to startups creating new solutions to existing challenges such as agriculture, mobility and waste...
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- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
of accounting earnings in predicting future cash flows using out-of-sample predictions and market value of equity as a proxy for all future cash flows. We find that, on average, accruals improve upon current cash flow from operations in...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
to write and teach in a way that helps people develop an intuition for looking into the future clearly. If you only look into it through the lenses of the past, it's very hard. I have a theory of why we've had this spate of horrible View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
millions of African farmers and their families achieve food security and lift themselves out of poverty. By 2008, AGRA had assembled a strong leadership team and had funded numerous small projects ranging from seed development to education. However, it needed to secure...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
neighborhoods across Baltimore, with competitive admissions) is annually ranked among the best public schools in the United States. This year, 96 percent of the school's graduates are college bound, many to elite institutions in the...
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- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
average, countries have adopted technologies 47 years after their invention. There is substantial variation across technologies and countries. Over the past two centuries, newer technologies have been adopted faster than old ones. The cross-country variation in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding into their portfolios. What...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching, public service, and the law, Pozen has also written six books and maintained rewarding relationships with his wife and their two children. In a widely read Harvard...
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Time management
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
hints, forecasts, and opportunities for the decade ahead. Navigating India $18 Trillion Opportunity by Bharat Joshi (OPM 47, 2015) Rupa Publications This book is an account of the possibilities that define...
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- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
promotes a public policy goal of sustainable development, which is beneficial to both public and private interests. The public sector accounts...
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Judy L. Allen Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
IV, Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Judy Ley Allen was also appointed to the Cultural Arts Council of Houston by former Mayor Kathy Whitmire and has served on the boards of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Museum...
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- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”
particular industry, he saw his internship as a gateway to entrepreneurship. “Microsoft was immense,” he says. “I wanted to work at a smaller company.” While following the social media account of HBS’ Career & Professional Development...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The nonprofit would...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be...
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Nikki Skovran
In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble — and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
saw in his company's entry-level hires. When he retired in 1992, he decided to do something about it by running for the Seattle school board. "If you want to change public education," he says, "you have to get inside the system." When he...
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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
resulting in such a switch. Download the paper: http://nocke.vwl.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/user_upload/nocke/papers/EsoNockeWhite-RJE-2010.pdf Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting Authors:S.P. Kothari,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The charter school movement was supposed to transform American public education. So far, though, the results have been mixed. But HBS grads nationwide are offering new approaches, innovative methods, unique models—all of them begging the...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to address the increasingly complex issues faced by school principals on the front lines of K–12 public education, offering them strategies and actionable practices to improve outcomes for...
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