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05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

anti-austerity party won the next election, but Samaras, who continues to represent the district of Messinia in Parliament, doesn't regret his stance during the crisis nor does he regret launching Political Spring, a party he started in... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social pressure fueled by socially View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Section Life: Your HBS Family

my section mates for help with anything from finding a job to meeting people if I move to a new city, and they would not help me without hesitation. Sections are also the basis of many HBS students’ social lives. Each section has elected social chairs who are View Details

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

brothers had in total seven children. What should the three brothers do strategically with the company and how should they address the generational transfer? Did it make sense for the brothers to plan on passing their majority ownership... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

banking" experience. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110049-PDF-ENG Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year? Lakshmi Iyer and Matthew C. WeinzierlHarvard Business School Case 710-051 In response to the economic and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

industries looking for ways to manage markets. Many states in the early 1930s created administrative boards to control competitive practices, wages, and retail prices industry by industry. “The crisis of the Great Depression played a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

1980s, under the leadership of Roger Smith, GM tried to transform itself into the "21st Century Corporation." 74 The plan was to revamp all of the assembly plants and replace workers with robots and other forms of... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

Lincoln—already besieged by personal and political difficulties—weighed his options, knowing that a loss at the polls would almost certainly mean a permanently divided nation. By late August, Lincoln faced a crisis as great as any other... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

Harvard Business School Case 214-027 ISS A/S: The Buyout Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buy-out and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

System, an innovative health plan and care delivery system subsidiary of Anthem, Inc with $1.2B revenue and over 100,000 members. In this role, he has operational responsibility for more than 800 clinical... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

1987) and Gary Grossman Beaufort Books Arctic ice is melting, the waters are warming, and Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov is one step closer to monopolizing the oil industry and funding his expansionism plans past Ukraine and Latvia.... View Details

28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

that suggest that the Act has produced financial reporting benefits. While the direct costs of the Act were substantial and fell disproportionately on smaller companies, costs have fallen over time and in response to changes in its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

remembered. “And I had a crisis of confidence looking at my experience and feeling insecure about wanting to pursue a career in fashion.” However, two elements of the HBS experience helped propel her forward in her fashion and retail... View Details

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

friends and family while hanging out in a VR living room, to attending a concert with hundreds of people from around the world, to just playing games together.” Can you tell us about your role as head of product marketing for AR/VR Experiences at Facebook? “I oversee... View Details

27 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

Samantha Cristoforetti, a captain in the Italian Air Force and the first Italian woman in space. Suffice it to say, it's an experienced group of self-starters. "If you have a team like this, you let them produce the ideas and get out of their way," he said,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

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What We Do | Research Associates

Finance. My work as an RA has allowed me to expand on my background and training in the social sciences and philosophy, and provides an excellent spring board for my future plans in and out of academia. The book that we are working on—a... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

awarded the nation's third-highest civilian honor, the Padma Bhushan, in 2002. Five years ago, Bajaj began to delegate many of his responsibilities to a team of younger executives. The final stage of that View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

against a backdrop of unusually sobering geopolitical events, including the attack on Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris and a suicide bombing at a police station in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet quarter, not far from the area where the students View Details

January 2024
Case

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney

In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details

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