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28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer finance. Jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson (HBS MBA '80), the elective course... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

MBA course in negotiation as well as advanced dealmaking electives and Executive Education programs), has developed a model with former HBS faculty member David A. Lax called "three-dimensional negotiation." In a course note... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

sector. This is a big problem when product development cycles and election cycles don't mesh; government funding may be available with one administration and gone with the next. Consider California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

TraceTogether. It subsequently became both the subject of his book’s final chapter and the focus of a case Weiss coauthored and taught this fall in his Public Entrepreneurship MBA elective course, which is designed for MBA students who... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

with the company’s president one day, the man suggested that Ross go to HBS. “It was an unbelievable experience,” Freeman recalls. “Competing against such a talented group of people, at that level, really helped me gain self-confidence and a belief in my own decisions.... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

return on investment won’t conveniently happen in one election cycle. Your research looks at the various ways that stimulus funds can go astray. Could you give an example? You tend to see two big classes of problems in terms of money not... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

affect the bids of higher-ranked advertisers. Consider an advertiser ("A") who obtains the next-to-last slot. The fee paid by the lowest advertiser ("B") is generally set by Google's minimum bid. But A needs to set its bid high enough to prevent B... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

04 May 2016
What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

been able to anticipate. As Duncan Philps-Tate noted, “This after all is the nation which elected H’Angus the Monkey (the local soccer team’s mascot) as Mayor of Hartlepool.” Those endorsing the name saw it as a way of popularizing a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

International Development Association (IDA). They meet at least weekly; the IBRD board currently has 24 members. (There is a separate board for the IBRD and the IDA, but the latter is basically a 95 percent subset of the former.) Countries are View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

in my MBA elective course International Financial Management, students are required to write a paper. Two really great students—Billy Rahm and Stefan Kowski (both MBA '06)—wrote a paper on the "repotting" of the manufacturer Celanese.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

and read a twelve-month operating cash flow statement. Many HBS readers will recognize "The R&R Case," by HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Introduced in the 1980s, the case focuses on one of Reiss's business ventures, and for many years it was the first case taught in... View Details

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

derail us." What's the business leaders' mood? It varies by region. In Europe, the feeling is that there will be continued economic progress, that markets will work well, but that there is an unwillingness or inability of democratically View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

generous GO: Africa Fellowship that encourages MBAs to work on the continent post-graduation, the new Doing Business in Africa elective course, or the “Africa Rising” short intensive program that was offered in January 2018 in which 30... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

so. My sectionmate and friend Ellen Chisa wrote a fantastic piece on implications of the RC courses for people in our industry. You should read it. The EC Year In the Elective Curriculum, you can specialize in the challenges you'll... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

Elliott Management, and Jonathan Rose Companies. The issues they tackled ranged from crowdsourcing and e-commerce, to renewable energy generation and development of buildings for use by charter schools. IFCs are topic-oriented and designed to give MBA students in the... View Details

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

second term. He prided himself on being an action- and results-oriented governor. He prided himself on being able to work with both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature. In the elections of fall 2010, the Republicans... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: London

and Paul then discussed the interplay between government and businesses towards a net positive future and how a number of elections in 2024 could impact climate goals. They discussed how businesses could exercise their muscles in the... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

approaches in K–12 education reform. Each year, more than 500 students enroll in SEI elective courses and the Social Enterprise Club is one of the largest student-led clubs on campus. Alumni play a vital role as well. "Many of our alumni... View Details

Keywords: SEI

01 Mar 2003
News

Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration Forest Reinhardt, an authority on the use of natural resources, serves as course head for the required Strategy course and also teaches the MBA elective Business and... View Details

Keywords: fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

This speaks to a very large leaky pipe, into which the government is pouring more resources in the futile hope that the pipe repairs itself. The fear is that this is an election sop, before next year's national elections, in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

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