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- October 2020
- Case
Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress
By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details
Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state
Ofek, Elie, and Lia Weiner. "Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress." Harvard Business School Case 521-046, October 2020.
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
could fail, but founders and investors who have already been burned by playing with fire take a very different view. One experienced advisor of startups observed, "If you go into business with money from friends and family, then you... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
decide it makes sense to actively seek anchor investments, our results suggest that banks with CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) requirements and foundations represent the large potential allocations. Investment advisors also represent a... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
systemic—physician training model, says Robert Huckman, one of Pany’s doctoral advisors and the Howard Cox Faculty Chair at the HBS Health Care Initiative. “This research shows that specialists achieve better patient ratings when they... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
curtailing the use of such agreements. Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, is an entrepreneur and startup advisor who now researches how technology firms organize and mobilize resources to grow... View Details
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
School Working Knowledge. HBS Digital Media Producer Amelia Kunhardt produced the video interview. [Image: kuri2000 ] Related Reading The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records A Politician's Investment... View Details
- November – December 2008
- Article
Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?
By: Anette Mikes
Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships
Mikes, Anette. "Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?" Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions 2, no. 1 (November–December 2008).
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
PeopleImages Convicted stockbroker Bernie Madoff knew exactly what he was doing when he stole billions from clients, yet the financial advisor didn’t pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in the United States by himself. He had the help of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
leaders of companies, they are rightly interested in strategy, marketing, operation—they don’t want to be spending many hours and millions of dollars on external counsel and advisors to resolve misconduct issues. The best way of making... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
Reading: Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records The Knowledge Coach What do you think of this research? How are you managing your life in... View Details
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
negotiate and resolve conflicts—or whether you wish to "win." If it's the latter, hopefully you will have a friend or advisor discourage you from this path. 3. Understand The Other Party's Interests, Constraints, And Perspective... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
data were nowhere to be found. The Billion Prices Project is still growing. Now the point is not about government manipulation of statistics but about providing more real-time inflation estimates, says Cavallo, who serves as an academic View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
had wanted to achieve at Apple from its founding in 1976 to his firing in 1985. He still believed that the future was all about the computer. He agreed to act as an advisor to Amelio, promising to “help Gil in any way he asks me to,”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
contract cause: compensation consultation commonality. A compensation consultant is an independent advisor who helps shareholders decide what to pay their CEO. Compensation consulting firms often serve hundreds of corporate clients—e.g.,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
Working Knowledge. [Image: andresr] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Book Excerpt Layers of Innovation From: Unlocking the Customer Value Chain By Thales S. Teixeira As an View Details
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
amount) and to poor advice (extreme estimates that were $5 or $10 off the mark). Even more worrisome, she found that advisors took advantage of the anxious guesser's poor judgment by giving bad advice to increase their own profit.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
society—and I use that phrase intentionally—that grew up around the company, and here I'm referring to the collusion of Enron's various advisors and financial intermediaries. And most importantly, Enron is a story about how fraud is often... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
Value. She is a former brand manager at Gillette, AT&T, and Samuel Adams and an advertising agency executive, and remains close to practice by serving as a board member, consultant, educator, and advisor to companies and their... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman