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- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
evolution of firms in different countries. In this case, the study of salespeople is related to questions of the wealth of national economies and to the competitive strength of multinational firms. Do... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
due to their abundant capital resources and long-term outlook. To be sure, this is not easy: Many of the challenges facing sovereign wealth funds are similar to those encountered in the other public venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
choices—align yourself with a big consolidator of wealth management firms or decide to go after the 17,000-plus independent RIA firms. If you go with the independent firms, you will need to have a robust sales View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
services for leisure and small-business travelers. Consumers enjoy one-stop shopping for airline tickets, car rentals, vacation packages, hotels, and cruises, as well as a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- Profile
Damien Hooper-Campbell
Damien Hooper-Campbell's business career started early – at age ten, when he swept floors at a local barber shop to bring in a little extra income for his family. The experience established two interests Damien would pursue: business and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
1984) and John Tamny Post Hill Press In Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home, authors Jack Ryan and John Tamny make a powerful case that the purchase of a home slows View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
Dear alumni and friends, We celebrated the opening of Klarman Hall on October 1 and used the occasion to spark discussion and spur thinking on important issues of the day. Beth... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- Profile
Rakhi Mehra
summer internship with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, "to look at innovative, sustainable ways to reduce poverty and meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for 2015." A... View Details
- Profile
Michael Son
classes on making change at the community level; on the causes of poverty and how to address them." But in his senior year, the promise of a "free week's vacation" gave him entrée to his first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
Above: photo by JJ Sulin My senior year of high school, I got a job as a teacher’s aide at an inner-city school in Hartford, Connecticut. I saw firsthand the difference between the education I was getting five miles away and the education... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
worship. Those words, and Mom’s commitment to making our lives better, continue to motivate me. I hope I can continue to use these experiences, having lived on both sides of poverty View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
E-waste recycling Marcel Brenninkmeijer (AMP 155 1998) Good Energies Foundation London, New York, and Zug Foundation focused on poverty alleviation through sustainable access to renewable energy Claire... View Details
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
pay heed to the signals they are sending. Investment Strategies is most directly applicable to students interested in pursuing careers in finance including mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial... View Details
Academic Excellence
archive boxes, to get a wealth of new ideas and the desire to carry out a multitude of new research projects. But above all, HBS is all about excellent encounters. The school brings together a large number... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit
on credit is not the way to wealth but the road to insolvency. Prints such as these would have been sold singly as broadsheets or reprinted in periodicals. Either way, they were popular sources of news, information, View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
standpoint. What will HBS do in terms of innovation to provide models and learnings where businesses can ensure everyone can be more secure and prosper and allow for... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
and relatives in Greece lead better lives than they can afford. Their wages are high, their benefits even higher, and their taxes are low (because, he claims, they avoid paying them). Banks in other... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
challenges like climate change, health care, and wealth inequality.” To integrate and amplify HBS’s efforts, Dean Datar has appointed Debora Spar, the Jaime View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)
can address the wealth gap that exists in this country. It doesn’t require a PhD, but it does require a sense of moral obligation. I believe if I can give you positive energy, you’ll return it. That’s the approach I bring to management... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna