Multiples - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

based upon natural catastrophes. So allowing us to charge the right risk will lead people to make the best decisions. And if you look at the multiple of billion-dollar events facing the insurance industry and there's an insurance gap,... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

globe. “Change had to start with our faculty research,” explains Palepu. “If we don’t have theories that are more globally robust, and materials that are developed using multiple contexts, and innovations that are captured wherever... View Details

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

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

multiple sectors. But I also continued to have this desire to look for ways to have impact and to make a difference. And in building businesses, we do that. We create jobs. We create economic growth. We do have an impact. I continue to be... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

fragrances, and toiletries brands were bought and sold, sometimes multiple times. It was clear that a large company from a different industry, whether pharmaceuticals, tobacco, or soap, could buy a good collection of cosmetics and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2015
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Harvard’s Next Frontier

facilities to be constructed along Western Avenue, adjacent to HBS and the Harvard Innovation Lab. “John is the epitome of a visionary leader,” said Dean Nitin Nohria. “He understands that this gift will be the cornerstone for a Harvard campus in Allston where View Details

Keywords: Drew Faust

01 Mar 2007
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Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch

multiple projects is no less than a corporate imperative, noted Ballmer. “Software companies are like sharks,” he analogized. “Either you keep moving forward or you die.” View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2007
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HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight

law-abiding start-up enterprises. The brainchild of former venture capitalist Catherine Rohr, who founded the program in 2004, PEP has seen dozens of participants benefit from its demanding regimen. Multiple interviews and tests are... View Details

Keywords: incarceration; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century

argument . . . is that it is necessary to look at both the costs imposed upon others without their consent and the rights denied to others, also without their consent, from multiple lenses." Does the business world look different in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; oil spill; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

between agreement on the [private equity] fund, the commitment on the part of investors into the fund, and the closing—it gets measured literally in months, as opposed to days,” he says. There’s the signing and mailing paper contracts, untold emails, View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

08 Aug 2019
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Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site

company’s rationale, noting that 8chan appeared to have inspired previous mass shootings at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and at a synagogue in Poway, California. "The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network

Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014) View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Ask the Expert: Bounce Back

web optimization and cookies, there’s no way to know exactly who is visiting your site, especially when devices and browsers are shared by multiple users, such as among family members, for example. Email accounts are very rarely shared,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

03 Jul 2024
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Surviving the Iditarod

ways I was still enjoying myself actually, and I was embracing the challenge, and that's what I had signed up for. There were so many moments where I thought about whether or not I should drop out or would want to drop out, and then I thought about what I'd do with the... View Details

03 Dec 2024
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From One to Many

In the years after Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992) published Never Eat Alone, he confessed some reluctance in being labeled “the networking guy.” “But 20 years after writing that first book, and after coaching thousands of teams, I’ve finally recognized there’s a... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

predominant use case we have in mind is shared rides. Fully driverless cars can be optimized for the passenger instead of the driver, so we see a scenario with multiple types of cabins, and people can call up the one most suited to their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal

Chipotle, Lyft, Walmart, and other large-scale enterprises access to a personalized, low-cost education. Home sweet home: “In Pakistan, I grew up in a house with 20 extended family members. I miss hearing five or six voices in a room at any given time—it taught me how... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2024
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Next Level

block it. That’s thanks in part to Bond’s lead-witness testimony on Microsoft’s behalf. Since closing the deal, the company has implemented multiple rounds of layoffs and closed some smaller game studios. Then there’s slowing growth in... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2025
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On The Case: The Base Factor

valuable insights from a company’s transactional data. Unlike the more traditional field cases, which have multiple exhibits drawn from interviews and hinge on a leader’s dilemma, Madrigal is a short-format case. It centers on the data,... View Details