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  • 16 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

are the top six tips from the experts in our Financial Aid office. 1. Learn about how financial aid works at business schoolHBS financial aid is primarily need-based. You will submit your HBS financial aid application after you are... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

means loyalty to people from the same village, but extends outward in principle to emphasize trusted personal relationships in every aspect of society. In a paper published in the December 2011 Journal of International View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

For Harvard Business School faculty, summer marks the perfect time to catch up on reading for work and pleasure. We asked six faculty what they're looking forward to digging into over the next few months. Jeff Bussgang wo of my books... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 24 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

“An Unfair Advantage”? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner; Banking
  • Web

Our Team - Impact Investments

Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

amounts of data, which in turn fuels AI, which can in turn make the digital products smarter. The challenges include internal education around data, systems modernization, and privacy concerns, while the opportunity is the creation of a... View Details
  • Web

Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

reveals the share of industries serving a local market versus those competing with other regions; clusters of industries with particular local strength; and an area's performance in terms of employment, wages, patenting, and new business... View Details
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

economics," says Shawn A. Cole, an associate professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. "A frequent criticism of bankers in the recent crisis is that they took a lot of incentive pay in the years leading up to the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • July 2005 (Revised August 2011)
  • Case

Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Bridget Gurtler
Jesse Holman Jones is regarded as one of the most influential men in reviving the American economy from the Great Depression. With only an 8th grade education, he rose to the top of the banking, real estate, and lumber industries, as well as the upper echelons of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Business History; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence
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  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

during his own business career. Start At The Top "If you want good decision-making, contention is essential," George says. "When I joined Medtronic, one of the things undermining its performance was conflict avoidance. To... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
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  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

  Working PapersCartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies Author:Jeffrey Fear Abstract This article provides an overview on the rise and fall of cartels since the late 19th century when the modern cartel movement properly arrived with the rise of big... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

For Alumni - Health Care

For Alumni Making a Difference in Health Care Harvard Business School With more than 8,000 graduates working in all health care industries around the globe, our alumni play important roles from supporting faculty with research to helping... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

International Corporation: 'Reverse BOT' Harvard Business School Case 609-062 Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is executing a strategy that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Managing Processes

David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details
  • 2022
  • Case

Mandalay Homes: Building Sustainable Innovation in Residential Construction

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Mandalay Homes, a home builder based in northern Arizona, is a market leader in energy efficiency based construction. The company is now at a crossroads for developing a strategy for the future. Internal leadership is in agreement that quality is better than quantity... View Details
Keywords: Green Building; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Construction Industry
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  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

  PublicationsBeing the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader Authors:Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2020
  • In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

afflicting most companies today should be relatively modest in organizations that build and manage their businesses around software. David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

Women at HBS - Alumni

in February 2013. HBS observed International Women's Day on March 8, 2013 with a series of student-focused discussions and events, including discussion of a new case: "Women MBAs at Harvard Business School:... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

increasingly predictable characteristic: they have multinational if not global impact. Does that mean they require global responses? For instance, in the current pandemic, could more international cooperation have helped moderate the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett