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- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Barton is a research associate. We talked with Rangan about the research and the courses he teaches on business and poverty. Sean Silverthorne: Traditionally, it was thought that the goal of the private sector—to maximize profit—was at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
Kentucky. She expects to establish a private practice and perhaps a retail business in bridal styling. “HBX CORe gave me a window into things I had never considered,” she says. “It showed me business practices I do and don’t want to... View Details
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
process in the event of failure. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-087.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAltoona State Investment Board: December 2008 Harvard Business School Case 809-095 Rod Calhoun, the head of the Altoona State Investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
numbering 98) grouped in “sectors” (now eight) headed by presidents with general management responsibilities. Unlike a conglomerate, each sector has one flagship company with its own listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange. “The model resembles a View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Management" that Beaulieu co-wrote to launch the discussion, works like this: "In a carve-out arrangement, a private disease management vendor typically takes on full risk for the care of patients with specific diseases like... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
framework for sovereign capital structure analysis. It is useful for assessing vulnerability, policy analysis, risk management, investment analysis, and design of risk control strategies. Both public and private sector participants can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
should monitor the credit markets, because collapses in credit are extremely detrimental to the economy. The vast majority of crises happened following periods of that Red-zone, which is following periods of rapid credit expansion. “The... View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
services to citizens can institute service improvements and metrics modeled after those in the private sector. They can call on social marketers to aid in communicating with customers and creating attractive exchanges that will achieve... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
would advocate a discontinuation of operations after attempting unsuccessfully to resist meeting government demands for private information. Some suggested more complex strategies. Among those in favor of staying and trying to reach some... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more interest in View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
The first question focuses on motivations, while the second one has more to do with the benefits sought in interactions with future partners. Altruism As a general rule, collaboration efforts between companies and CSOs have an inherent social dimension. While the main... View Details
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
post-investment value-added all contribute to value creation, the VCs rate deal selection as the most important of the three. We also explore (and find) differences in practices across industry, stage, geography, and past success. We compare our results to those for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in the context of vehicle emissions testing in a state in which the government has outsourced inspection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
Dean’s Office will use the annual reporting process and periodic audits to monitor compliance. Definitions For the purposes of this policy statement, the following definitions apply: A faculty member is anyone with a current full-time or... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
“You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” Add it all up and you have an early-stage funding problem, with marine-energy projects proving too capital-intensive for venture capitalists and too risky for private... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
online the day after a release," says Iyer. To police pirated copies online, a Hollywood company could pay $100,000 to hire 50 monitors after a debut. But if 350,000 people are prevented from illegally downloading one movie, and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
example of a non-high-tech company we study is H.E. Butt Grocery Company. This is a large, very successful privately held chain in southern Texas that has used technology to combat some of the threats of its competitors, including... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-083.pdf Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions Authors:Paul A. Gompers and Yuhai Xuan Abstract We compare three potential mechanisms for alleviating the asymmetric information between the public acquirers and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
entrepreneur who initially thought he’d have a career in the private sector before pursuing academia. He spent the summer between his first and second years as an MBA working as a consultant and discovered he loved the process of... View Details