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- January 2025
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Colbún’s Angostura Dam Project (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Nicolas Andrade
The A case describes Colbún Chile’s plans for the Angostura dam in the Bío Bío River, a hydroelectric construction venture with major challenges given the region’s history of indigenous resistance. This context was especially unfavorable given the highly contentious... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
preventing managers from wasting or misallocating free cash flow and deters related parties, including host governments, from trying to appropriate it. But is this always effective in preventing such misappropriation? A: It is true that... View Details
- June 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Background Note
Environmental Law in Real Estate Transactions
By: Arthur I Segel, Jeff Mandelbaum and Armen Panossian
Summarizes several of the major federal environmental statutes, most notably the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA" or "Superfund"). Also discusses several state and local regulations. View Details
Segel, Arthur I., Jeff Mandelbaum, and Armen Panossian. "Environmental Law in Real Estate Transactions." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-185, June 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
from the Class of 1977 interviewed for this article, Fox came to the restaurant industry by an indirect path, but now finds himself completely immersed in its unique complexities and rewards. The National Restaurant Association projects... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
When the stakes are high - in business, politics, or everyday life - it pays to take a page from the playbook of the world's greatest negotiators. And if you want to learn how to be a world-class negotiator, consider how Richard Holbrooke helped defuse the war in... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
of regional dynamics. Oil industry Postwar oil-field pacification and reconstruction policy has failed. Oil production is under half the 1990 level, and still - after 7 months - under two-thirds the pre-invasion level. This is... View Details
- Web
Online AI Course | HBS Online
organization and highlight its benefits and considerations 6-7 hrs Module 3 Understand network and learning effects’ impact on business strategy and how they can be used to create value. Explore ethical considerations related to AI and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
in the Harvard MBA program, including Management of International Business; Business, Government, and the International Economy; and Industry and Competitive Analysis. He taught in and was course head of Business Policy and the General... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
present I am working on understanding how the career trajectories of founders affect the performance of their firms. 2. Entrepreneurship in creative industries: While this area is related to the first, I am particularly interested in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
Leader is an important first step. Next will come other programs, perhaps focused on specific industries or geographic regions, or different age ranges or career levels, and certainly appealing to a mix of professionals who share common... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
have a great deal of difficulty adjusting to realities that corporations have readily taken in stride. What do you mean by “harmonism” and “convergence” as they relate to foreign relations? Harmonism is the notion that if it weren’t for a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
spirit of being truly curious about the problems they observed and how they could help people do their job better," Tucker says. The same findings can be applied to any industry or organization. "What we're finding is more View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
industries and industry as a whole." 57 50 Doriot quoted in Gene Bylinsky, "General Doriot's Dream Factory," Fortune , August 1967: 104. 51 David A. Loehwing, Barron's, 26 September 1960: 3. 52 Doriot,... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
Spencer Stuart, directed by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher and management consultant Deborah Bell. The team worked for over a year before that to identify board members from more than 60 countries, in industries including... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
particular, supportive incumbent industrial structures for input and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
burn cash faster than they make it. But already successful pioneers such as eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! have transformed industry dynamics, opened new career aspirations, and become emblematic of a new workplace style. The wanna-dots are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 12 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)
leaders I most admired often had interdisciplinary backgrounds. Around the same time, I realized I wanted to explore new industries and expand my skill set. HBS’s focus on leadership and its commitment to creating positive change felt... View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
they were manufactured linked consumer goods to the glorification of modern industrial life. “The frequent depiction of majestic factories on trade cards is simply further proof of the obvious confidence and optimism with which... View Details
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Justine Lelchuk
with the CPG industry after graduation, in a firm or as a consultant. "Then I'd like to go back to school for a PhD that combines social psychology/organizational behavior and business," says Justine. "I want to study... View Details