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- November 2011
- Case
Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster
By: William W. George
George, William W. "Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster." Harvard Business School Case 412-073, November 2011.
- February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Lehman Brothers
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
In 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy? And... View Details
Keywords: History; Business History; Development Economics; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Banking; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Lehman Brothers." Harvard Business School Case 810-106, February 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of "Dubai, Inc." (TN)
By: Anthony Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell
Teaching Note for 410063. View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
violations Heese, who researches corporate misconduct, decided to examine company violations in light of the rapid deterioration of the newspaper industry. The circulation of local newspapers in the United States has declined by roughly... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
per unit of energy consumed.” Dan Wallace asked whether or not we have “the wrong expectations.” As an example, he cited the sharing economy, where we achieve “better asset utilization and customer experience, but not necessarily... View Details
- Profile
Gordon Ross
Even as an undergraduate majoring in economics in Scotland, Gordon Ross had been fascinated by causality. “I’ve always enjoyed seeing how different things relate in the world,” Gordon says. “If you pull the string at one end, what happens... View Details
- Student-Profile
Do Yoon Kim
My background drew me to subjects like game theory, and courses in industrial organization piqued my interest the most. I applied to economics programs, but ultimately chose the Strategy program at HBS because of the faculty members here,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Abstract Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
the University of Manitoba, a master's in economics from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Rochester. Josh Lerner has a joint appointment in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
some HBS students, he gathered local statistics and followed the development of a peasant cooperative movement. Lodge found that economic development was more accurately seen as psychological and political change. It was therefore... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Profile
Mina Kazanlieva
A summer session at Choate Rosemary Hall became a "life-changing" event for Mina Kazanlieva when she was admitted to the high school full-time, and moved from Bulgaria to the United States. "The schoolwork was challenging,... View Details
- 2019
- Chapter
Monetary Policy—‘Whatever It Takes within Our (New?) Mandate’
By: Huw Pill
This paper discusses whether the UK's monetary policy framework needs to be reviewed in the light of experience during and in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. It concludes that, while the inflation targeting framework has generally proved robust, the Bank... View Details
Pill, Huw. "Monetary Policy—‘Whatever It Takes within Our (New?) Mandate’." Chap. 3 in Renewing our Monetary Vows: Open Letters to the Governor of the Bank of England, edited by Richard Barwell and Jagjit Chadha, 35–52. London: National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), 2019.
- 03 Sep 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
How the US Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
contingent reserves, and reserve dependent output costs. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-010.pdf Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
According to research compiled by the Federal Reserve, cities, not suburbs, are now the leading generators of US economic growth. From 2010 to 2016, urban populations grew faster than those in the suburbs, reversing a nearly 70-year-old... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
discuss the core challenges of fighting global carbon dioxide emissions in a shortsighted, ideologically polarized environment. To his mind, both in Europe and in the United States, government efforts to regulate carbon emissions have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2) substantial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb