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19 Jun 2013
News

Your Guide to Social Enterprise

achieve its social mission? "Social entrepreneurship is hard to define, but you know it when you see it," says Georgia Levenson Keohane (MBA 2000). There's a lot to see in it these days, as a kind of social entrepreneurship revolution has exploded across the nonprofit,... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2015
News

A Legacy of Support

Robert’s memory of that time is filled with emotion: “I walked into Ted Levitt’s Marketing class, saw ‘Jonathan Ariel Kraft, March 4, 1964’ written on the board, and received a standing ovation. It’s a moment I will never forget.” The... View Details

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war,"... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

01 Feb 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Last July, the Alumni Board identified three issues of concern to both alumni and the School: continuing education, marketing HBS programs and other services to alumni, and club operations. The goal of the Board is to serve as the voice... View Details

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

the paper says. With some evidence that “a few are behaving badly,” Froot says the findings might prompt the US Securities and Exchange Commission to scrutinize weaknesses in the announcement process. “We definitely think this merits further research and perhaps some... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

Career Coach

Phillip Andrews

CPD team, Phillip spent two years in the HBS Global Research Group where he wrote more than 20 published case studies. Prior to HBS, he worked in legal and policy capacities in both the public and private sector. Work Experience: National... View Details

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01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

confronts the challenge of whether its business model will continue to be viable under radically altered market conditions and a new regulatory regime. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310056-PDF-ENG Goldman... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

for the most part. And private conversations, by their nature, can't mobilize an organization to address the gaps between its business strategy and the structure, capabilities, and market realities it faces. In our experience, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Publication: Journal of Public Policy and Marketing 27, no. 2 (fall 2008): 202-206 Abstract The authors propose a political theory perspective for examining the impact of the modern aggregate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster revenues grow, the worse their stocks perform. The Elements of Investing by Burton G. Malkiel... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Profile

Kevin Nazemi

Kevin Nazemi chose Microsoft after graduation from MIT for the chance to turn a small market presence into something much bigger. “When I arrived, our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product had almost no traction in the U.S.,”... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and Charity Pre-Industrial Credit in... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Offshore Learning

you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991) is working with Boston Public Schools to make... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

no company is off limits. Activists have recently pressed for action at Apple, GE, and DuPont. Campaigns against companies with market capitalizations of more than $25 billion nearly tripled last year. The activist’s transformation to... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn to reap the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Web

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

if an entrepreneur decides to sell the business, one group or another is often a willing and able buyer, a valuable "exit" option when public capital markets are underdeveloped. Perez Companc S.A.,... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

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