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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

its new President Laurie Patton faced the challenge of students calling for divestment from fossil fuels, trustees opposed to it, and a series of day to day administrative challenges that demanded her immediate attention. How does change... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Institutions for "The Limits of Insurance Demand and the Growing Protection Gap" with Pari Sastry, Tess Scharlemann, and Ana-Maria Tenekedijieva. 2024 Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2024 Second Place Jensen Prize for the best paper... View Details

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

starting the venture subsequently drops out. When the venture gets financing or is ready to go public, this partner returns, perhaps with an inflated view of what his or her contribution was, demanding equity. This problem can be... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

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Digital Innovation - Alumni

live our lives, HBS is elevating and expanding faculty research on the breadth and depth of this digital transformation. HBS Live Online classrooms In response to growing demand for online learning, HBS built two new virtual classrooms on... View Details

11 Mar 2001
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Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

every aspect of business, and life – from pitching to giving feedback, from brainstorming to making group decisions, from interviewing to firing. Creating Value Through Activist Investing This course will expose students to the conceptual and practical aspects of how... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

our moment. A second force affecting the speed and direction of global capitalism comes from the demand side. There are millions-soon to be billions-of consumers, voters, and other actors, most obviously "millennials," who want... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

a large stake in Dell, Inc., accused Dell of trying to steal the company, and urged shareholders to rebel and demand a "leveraged recapitalization" instead. This case presents the information the Dell board worked with as it... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous demand shocks and partially neglect the endogenous investment responses of their competitors. Formal estimation of the model confirms that both types of expectational errors are... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

25 Jan 2010
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A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

deficit spending send the signal that demand will increase, and thus both aim to break the cycle of negative expectations about the economy. Q: What's a good way to think about foreign direct investment in the United States? Are we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

change the dynamics because they can be written off as exceptions, Kanter says. That is one reason Hatcher’s BlackTech Week has been so key to spurring change, since it annually brings together Black speakers, founders of promising ventures, and View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

We see a strong push from customers and investors to adopt climate-positive policies and products. And we see movement to adopt policies that emphasize human consequences, these in addition to traditional approaches to compliance with... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

startup Understand the process of raising capital and how to speak to investors Who Will Benefit Aspiring Entrepreneurs Early-Stage Entrepreneurs Students Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur with the start of an idea or are exploring... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

down. It was an exciting, if unsettled, time. “Transition is very hard,” Enan says. “Now we know.” Over the next 18 months, she worked under three ministers of finance, sometimes sleeping at the office when protesters demanding... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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Electricity - Business & Environment

hydropower, and nuclear that emit far less or even no greenhouse gases. Yet 20% of the world’s population currently lives without access to electricity [21] , and meeting their needs and the growing global demand for electricity—while... View Details

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MBA Program - Alumni

the School is preparing future leaders for the demands of an ever-changing world. HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund HBS’s first student-run Impact Investing Fund focuses on local BIPOC-led and -owned small businesses that have... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

Then there's the recent debacle involving a big beverage company. The vice president of sales for one of the company's largest regions dramatically underpredicted demand for an upcoming major holiday. His motivation was simple—he wanted... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

equity firms have billions of dollars of investible cash—although whether any of these investors have the appetite to risk their capital in the present environment is yet to be determined. And of course, an effective cure or vaccine for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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