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- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
unless majority investments are at stake, there is little other than moral suasion that can be used to persuade investors to avoid making investments for political reasons or adhere to certain standards for transparency in their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
entrepreneur in many different environments,” said Laurans. Offering nearly half of the curricular content of a standard semester in just one week, the course acted as a testbed for future climate-focused course offerings across multiple... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
nurturing of businesses as a business—to feed capital to entrepreneurs to foster rapid growth for our society and the new firm's products for consumers," investment analyst and author Kenneth L. Fisher asserts. "It was his formula for success, and today's View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
First, there was no standard to evaluate the CIP managers at the division level, so a 60 percent execution rate, for instance, might conceivably seem “good enough.” Second, the way the money was being distributed at the headquarters... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes are now articulating their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
Blau (MBA 2001), Baupost CEO Seth Klarman (MBA 1982), Standard Hotels CEO Amar Lalvani (MBA 2001), General Assembly CEO Lisa Lewin (MBA 2003), and Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), among other HBS graduates) who issued a statement supporting... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
remarks, Porter noted two potential threats to America in its current role as the standard bearer of global commerce: U.S. capital markets could get too near-term oriented, and basic research might not receive sufficient investment. In a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
comes from ticket and concession sales, compared with the standard 50 percent of most performing arts organizations. With numerous public outreach programs, the Big Apple, adds Slifka, "is both an incredibly successful performing arts... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
in its annual financial statements, primarily the annual report. For this we use the recently released transparency-and-disclosure scores provided by Standard and Poor's. Q: What did you discover about the disclosure practices of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Profile
LaToya Marc
that startled her: statisticians claimed that they could forecast the number of future prison cells the nation would need based on the performance of 4th graders on standardized tests. At this point, LaToya had been volunteering as a math... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
How I Structured My Second Year at HBS
cross-registered for a class on Persuasion at the Kennedy School during the January term. I needed to be in Boston during January, and I thought the class would be a great way to experience a different part of Harvard while learning an important skill. The course had... View Details
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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
professional point of view. In the ministry, the law, and medicine, experience has proved that the shortest and most effective way to absorb the fundamental facts, principles, and standards . . . and to prepare for its practice is in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
percent of its revenues coming from abroad. In establishing its global presence, Gupta explains, McKinsey has adopted a modus operandi to ensure that the all-important values of the organization - "a meritocracy dedicated to the highest View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
England home-cooking standards exciting again. Armed with his MBA, Duda saw the energy of this burgeoning food scene as an opportunity for new types of food-related businesses, ventures like the Food Network, where, as a consultant, he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
current board members (nearly 10 percent of the directors of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies are 70 or older), Stautberg and Chin believe there will be many opportunities for Harvard MBAs to make a difference through board service in the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
Sam agreed: "This should be standard business practice." He asked, "Why do these boards not have a member who truly understands Compliance/Governance?" John would go even further. "Yes to a compliance officer This... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
hyper-efficient supermarket with standardized offerings,” Rakuten is more like a bazaar “where the owners of many small shops curate the merchandise and interact personally with customers.” Starting out, Rakuten charged... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
hurting small-business lending. Banks have been raising their capital reserves to comply with new standards initiated by risk-averse bank examiners and other regulators post-crisis. They are also hoarding deposits, which undermines their... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne