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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen's average loan (no collateral required) is $200. Its repayment rate is about 98 percent. Some 7 million poor people,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
idea: "e-culture." Why? A: In Evolve, I write about the changes that businesses, other organizations, and even individuals are going to go through as a new way of working, leading, and living. I call it e-culture because I'm View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
that channel illicit money ultimately into Western economies. First and foremost, to reduce global poverty, clean up the global financial system. This is the most effective step we can take to assure that capitalism maximizes its contribution to View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
something that might give them a refresher. And as soon as I put those first YouTube videos up, something interesting happened. Actually, a bunch of interesting things happened. The first was the feedback... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
public's interest and reminded people of the multiple platforms available to see the competition," says Greyser. The biggest boon to NBC, however, was the Games themselves. Winning performances by American athletes such as swimmer Michael... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
Domingo, managing director of O&V Associates, said established Latin American companies face a situation in which their markets are no longer protected by national interests and suddenly face competition on all sides. Andres Obregon... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
commercialization of important new drugs to the detriment of consumers. Interestingly, though, at public hearings, the AstraZeneca chief executive championed the interests of patients in opposing the proposed merger. Consumers worldwide... View Details
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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting
Recruiting Strategies Student & Alumni Stories Summer Internships In the spring of 2020, Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019), Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021), Carter Lewis (MBA 2023), Lindsey Ferguson, Nicolle Mora, and Sesana Allen were each pursuing their own careers, utilizing... View Details
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How to onboard recently graduated MBAs - Recruiting
sessions with important, yet informal, conversations. “Set up meetings with the people new hires should talk to, and explain why,” she says. “For example, ‘This is Sue from finance; she’ll show you how to submit purchase orders.’ Spread... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
volume have highlighted, much is still not yet known about the venture capital industry. The extent to which the U.S. venture model will spread overseas and the degree to which the American model will — or can — be successfully adapted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
entrepreneurship, neither really understanding it nor teaching or researching it in a committed fashion. To its credit, from the School’s earliest years on, Deans Gay, Donham, and David had encouraged research on the importance of innovators to business. View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
these curious combinations may have seemed financially attractive at their inception, they were now so functionally ill-conceived that the individual parts were worth more than the agglomerated whole. The M&A; restructuring of those 1960s dinosaurs View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
OCTOBER 6 Rajendra Aneja (AMP 175, 2008) brought his expertise in marketing in rural areas to the task of stopping the spread of the COVID-19, which he deems “the biggest and most serious problem facing mankind since World War II.” In... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. All things being equal,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
industry and gradually spreading elsewhere. Small, state-owned enterprises were slimmed down under Premier Zhu Rongji--basically cut loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured--while the government focused on larger enterprises.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
producers, instead of investing in just a handful of products and making them appeal to mass audiences, should spread their resources more equally across a larger number of smaller bets. A lot of people in the media world and investors... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
interest among students has been increasing. MW: Julie is right. SEI has had a tremendous amount of influence here, but also in the broader community. By establishing an effort around social enterprise at HBS, it helped to say, “Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details