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01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward

welfare,” Desai noted. Middle-Skills Gap Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller worked with consulting firm Accenture and workforce analytics company Burning Glass Technologies to produce a report highlighting the ways employers can foster the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2005
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Faculty Books

International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

them—and all soon-to-be managers—make the shift. These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, these four corporate leaders stepped forward—and changed how we think of leadership forever.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Lemmens and Sunil Gupta provides a novel method for determining which customers to target in order to maximize the profit of a retention campaign. The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market... View Details

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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

coursework. That helps our information research staff to understand the context of your question. Research topics Suggested Resources Company/Competitors Capital IQ Profiles and data on public, private companies and investment firms such... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

the relative costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures, View Details

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

the GFC, firms with higher leverage have Z-scores that are closer to the financial distress range. The data also corroborate two macro-related hypotheses: first, that leverage interacted with currency... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

forthcoming Stanford University Press Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma By: O'Reilly, Charles A., and Michael Tushman Abstract—In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed—think of Blockbuster,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Arthur J. Decio

Decio transformed his family’s company from a small coach firm in a garage in Indiana into one of the three largest builders of manufactured homes in the United States. Under his leadership, Skyline grew to 25 companies with 3,500... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Arjun Chopra

(including production systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 10 of the top 20 Global financial institutions), managed over 200M hours of uptime in the public cloud and was recognized as one of AWS' top 22 partners world-wide. Arjun... View Details

Chandler’s Legacies

had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in my home country of Colombia. I... View Details

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

Structure and Performance of Corporate Headquarters." Among their findings: Contrary to popular belief, European HQs were smaller than American HQs. And the much-touted "lean and mean" ideal does not necessarily lead to better View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2012
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Banks as Multinationals

By: G. Jones

This is a revised edition of a comparative, international study which looks at the history of multinational banks. Researchers from the United States, Japan, Europe, and Australia survey the evolution of multinational banks over time and suggest a conceptual framework... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Banks and Banking; Business Strategy; Geographic Location; Trends; Theory

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Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers Timeline Sept-Oct 2008 Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) Lehman Brothers Archives Lehman Brothers Deal Books Search Exhibition Lehman Brothers - Introduction 1840s – 1880s General... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)

health crisis that has produced severe economic shocks and has shined a light on the longstanding issues around racial equality. Citi too is a very different firm than we were during the financial crisis... View Details

Keywords: April White; Photo by: Michael Bucher; banking; diversity; COVID-19; leadership; African American; career advice; Finance

01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

in other areas. But we didn’t have a course that would help students understand consumers and the financial service firms that serve them, including traditional banks, insurance companies, credit card... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

12 Feb 2001
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Creating Value Across Borders

example, while Korea has a great education system, its industry structure is still rather inefficient. The Asian financial crisis induced a healthy shakeout, and now private equity firms are very active... View Details

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05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

focused on housing and household debt for good reason: In the United States, a residential housing loan collapse touched off the deep financial crisis of 2008. But in the decade-plus since, the focus on household debt may mean... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Layla A. Ramirez

Training Institute. She is an Intercultural Development Inventory Qualified Administrator, a 360 Inclusive Leadership Compass Coach and is Dare to Lead trained. In 2022 Layla founded and became the CEO of The FirstOnes Collective, LLC, a View Details

Keywords: Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All)

01 Mar 2007
News

…and They Will Come

At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Special Design Services; Professional Services

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