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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World. One participant wondered how the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
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Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System? Corporations have turned tax obligations into profit centers, bringing into question the whole rationale for business taxes. Associate Professor Mihir Desai discusses problems with the modern corporate tax View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
shadow financial system. Create a new system for federal and state regulation of mortgages and other consumer credit products. Create executive pay structures that discourage excessive risk taking. Reform the credit rating system. Make... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
nature of the investors, the structure of the investments, and the performance of the firms. Their findings suggest that there are risks in combining banking and private equity investing. The results are consistent with many of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
appreciation of a gift from Lilian and André Esteves, cofounder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual. A “topping off” ceremony signaled the completion of the structural phase of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center, scheduled to open in summer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
the island of Vinalhaven, Maine. The $15 million project is the largest community-owned wind facility on the East Coast. Standing nearly 400 feet tall, the structures will fill the electricity needs of the several thousand year-round and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
To better understand the prospects for future entrepreneurial success in sustainable industries, Professor Geoffrey Jones looks to the past. In his chapter in the new book Green Capitalism?, for instance, Jones delves into the history of wind energy to identify the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over two centuries, Swiss mechanical... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
parking lot. As many as one hundred workers have been laboring on the site each day, pouring the concrete foundation and positioning the structural steel beams and columns. While the summer's extreme heat occasionally halted work early -... View Details
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- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Pasricha on the Perils of Retirement
relationships with our friends and family”), structure (“a reason to get out of bed in the morning”), stimulation (“we always need to be learning something new”), and story (being part of something bigger than yourself). “And those four... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish
Charlton Ames (MBA 1970) is chairman and vice president of business development for Sea Run Holdings, a virtual firm in Maine that develops innovative biologics and therapeutics from the blood of farmed salmon. In this video he explains the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
configurations. A section of 90 students, for example, can easily be divided into 15 groups of 6. What curriculum innovations are second-year students experiencing this year? Historically, we have structured the first and second years... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
new meaning to the notion of shared value,” says Palandjian. “They provide a structure to unite an uncommon set of partners— government, investors, philanthropists, and nonprofits—in pursuit of a common goal.” (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
Malaysia’s Petronas Towers may be among the tallest structures in the world, but the man chiefly responsible for building them prefers to keep a low profile. Describing Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (MBA ’64) as an individual who “guards... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
by rehabilitating historic structures in towns and cities in the Midwest. Its work has received numerous state, local, and national awards, including two from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Today, the company focuses on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
responsible bonhomie that draws tens of thousands to the scorching hinterlands of summertime Nevada. Playing against festival type, the Hexayurt was not a temporary artsy structure but a prototype for a low-cost home, built from hexacomb... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
Baker. “Together with the pattern that more conservative capital structures reduce the risk of equity, this finding suggests a cost of heightened capital requirements in the form of costlier equity.” (Published May 2015) View Details