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- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, has investigated this... View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
keeps me intimately connected with the product. After each class, I'm always thinking about how my team and I can make the BollyX experience even better. "One structural difference from all my past jobs is that my time spent in Excel and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
ALL IN: The bigger the bet Hollywood makes, the better. Photo courtesy of Anita Elberse Offstage at a Lady Gaga concert seems an unlikely place for academic fieldwork. But that's exactly the kind of environment that allows Anita Elberse to examine firsthand the nuances... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with Dartmouth's Karl Diether, analyzed the complete legislative record of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light. “So intellectually, though this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
“The case was very appealing because the CEO’s goal was to create a governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders anywhere in the world. The more we talked, the more it seemed like a way to understand 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 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
When I graduated from Stanford, I had the opportunity to travel with an elite amateur team doing bike races, or I could go join a structural design firm in Pittsburgh. That was my choice. I chose to race bikes. I love the sport. I love... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
directive from executives and a road map for achieving it, employees feel confident that their specific actions will be recognized and rewarded. It’s this bridge that middle managers create—translating a top-level mandate into everyday View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
organizations and suggest possibilities for its application elsewhere. Lawrence and Nohria admit that "two Harvard Business School professors might seem like unlikely candidates" to propose such an expansive model of human behavior. But... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
Through three decades of international business travel as founder and president of the Netherlands-based Caldic Chemie, BV, Joop van Caldenborgh (AMP 71, 1975) also pursued his lifelong passion for collecting modern and contemporary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
when I was growing up in the 1990s. There’s been a real change in philosophy, which entrepreneurship can build on. The Branson Centre is an accelerator operating out of Kingston that helps entrepreneurs structure their View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
The idea of human cloning is controversial, but cloning a successful business concept remains as desirable as ever. For HBS assistant professor Steven J. Spear, this pursuit led him to Toyota, whose perennial leadership in quality... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
New Horizons
The Harvard Center Shanghai occupies the entire fifth floor of the HSBC Tower, right of center. The building is a recent addition to the panoramic Pudong district skyline, noted for the futuristic architectural flourishes of signature View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Going Up
structure will house living quarters and classrooms for HBS Executive Education programs. Pictured are (left to right) Tata Sons VP Venkat Venkataramanan, HBS chief of operations Andy O’Brien, Tata, and Tata Sons deputy chairman Cyrus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
this world,” she says. “There should be no monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.”... View Details