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- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
where Mikitani graduated in 1993, he began to formulate ideas for his own venture. Studying hundreds of cases of startup success, he was transformed. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own... View Details
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
grew up in a house in Pakistan with nine siblings where she learned how to have productive conversations despite opposing views. Maha brought this experience from her dinner table to the case method and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
with a “what’s in it for me attitude” and little patience. I have found that there is really no shortcut to success, and learning business takes time. Companies are different, industries are different, and the case View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Alfred Chandler, it became clear that Thyssen was developing many features of the "visible hand" of management that paralleled U.S. methods without aping them, including the seminal multidivisional form. Q: Many of us have a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
will collaboratively examine aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) that have an impact on business and society at large. Their research output will include case studies, scholarly publications, and new tools and View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Education For many investors, alpha—risk-adjusted returns above benchmarks—is akin to the Holy Grail, particularly challenging to achieve even with a sound strategy. The author reveals the principles and methods employed in her investment... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Almandoz Abstract—A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical issues of bank loans when it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, Weinzierl coauthored the HBS working paper "The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution" [PDF]. The main framework economists use to think through tax... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
that the effectiveness of the case method depends on students coming in with a variety of experiences. If we only had one industry, geography, culture, or socioeconomic experience represented in our... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
students; to inspire and inform case studies; and to share our insight and experience." Mission and Priorities "The mission of Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world," says Nohria. "By joining... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
executive at Nickelodeon, the children's TV channel, who successfully managed her career while coping with a high-risk pregnancy. The other was Estée Lauder, founder of the cosmetics empire that bears her name. While the traditional HBS View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
Ramirez learned how to operate a nonprofit organization like a profitable business. From operations and technology to sales and marketing, she dug in deeply to bring the best of for-profit business models into an impact-driven setting. In particular, Ramirez... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
Politicians, Minor analyzes whether risk preference is a good predictor of misconduct, using members of Congress as his subjects. He delved into the politicians’ financial records, determining what percentage of their portfolios was allocated to riskier investments–in... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and she wanted to continue building her career in business. She also had a yearning to uncover her passion, and so exposure to different industries and business challenges through the case study View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
rehabilitation projects have won numerous state and local awards and two have received a total of five national awards, including two from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Freeman believes he knows why his “I’ll give that a shot” approach to business has... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih in a... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
thrown around range from the federal government borrowing and investing that money directly to instead providing incentives such as tax credits to encourage private industry to participate. The method and the final amount will be debated.... View Details