• 12 Aug 2002
• Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

will require a new institution that can harness the capabilities of global corporations and, helped by loans from development agencies, directly attack the root causes of poverty. The need for corporate involvement in the fight against... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

• 01 Mar 2019
• News

The Fight Beyond

The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

• 24 Jun 2008
• First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-102.pdf Cases & Course Materials (None this week.) Publications Managing Up Author: Linda A. Hill Publication: Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 05 Oct 2010
• First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

accounting "reliability." Broadly, the evidence, by highlighting the influence of standard setters, can broaden our understanding of the political economy of standard setting beyond the role of corporate lobbying. Download the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 01 Mar 2025
• News

Patch Work

ones I visited in Mykolaiv are demined, Ukraine will go from being the world’s breadbasket to a basket case,” Jameson wrote in The Hill upon his return. Jameson was approached shortly thereafter to host a fundraiser for the... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

• 01 Mar 2021
• News

How to Step In as an Interim Manager

• 01 Mar 2017
• News

The Middle Way

embassies around the world. Even after agreeing to attempt a compromise, the talks would often stall; sometimes they threatened to cease. By 2002, the original process was in disarray, and a whole new structure with new negotiators was... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

• 01 Jun 2018
• News

The Long Run

Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

• 05 Jun 2017
• News

How to Manage a Needy Employee

• 05 Jul 2018
• News

How to Manage an Employee Who’s Having a Personal Crisis

• 29 Jun 2016
• News

Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story

subservient to the needs of the story. “I saw Wolf of Wall Street,” says coproducer Linda Zwack Munger (MBA 1982), a former senior vice president in Lehman Brothers’ mortgage bond department. “It’s so unrealistic.” In addition to not... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; photography by Chris Taggart; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

• November 2013 (Revised December 2013)
• Case

Endeavor: Miami Heats Up

By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda, David Lane and Lisa Mazzanti

Endeavor Global was a nonprofit that for 15 years had worked to nurture entrepreneurship in emerging markets by selecting local high-impact entrepreneurs for mentoring and aid in scaling up their businesses from committed local business leaders. In summer 2012,... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurs; Scaling; Emerging Market Entrepreneurship; Not For Profit; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mentoring; Business Networks; Hybrid Nonprofit Funding; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Finance; Miami

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Sahlman, William A., Ramana Nanda, David Lane, and Lisa Mazzanti. "Endeavor: Miami Heats Up." Harvard Business School Case 814-043, November 2013. (Revised December 2013.)

• 01 Feb 1998
• News

C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation in the early 1980s. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne

• September–October 2015
• Article

Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World

By: Debora L. Spar

In the frenzied hills of Silicon Valley, going bust is common. Research attests that close to half of start-ups supported by venture capital chew through most or all of their backers' money and that the majority never achieve their projected returns on investment. But... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Failure; Learning; Situation or Environment

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• September 2024
• Supplement

National Public Broadcasting (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Pre-abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: This (B) case supplement is designed for use by faculty only to support classroom instruction in conjunction with... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Media; Ownership; Strategy; Advertising; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Journalism and News Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "National Public Broadcasting (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 225-706, September 2024.

• January 2019 (Revised March 2020)
• Case

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018

By: Emil Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien

In early 2018, Blackstone announced that John McCormick would succeed Tom Hill as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), the largest fund-of-hedge funds in the world by a sizeable margin. As new CEO, McCormick must... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Expansion; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry

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Siriwardane, Emil, Luis M. Viceira, and Shawn O'Brien. "Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018." Harvard Business School Case 219-063, January 2019. (Revised March 2020.)