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- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
publications, National Geographic's subscription revenue has declined significantly, from $284 million in 1999 to $211 million in 2009. The value of becoming a member of the Society, once a matter of prestige, has eroded. The institution... View Details
- Web
Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Data Set in Excel Banana Exports by Country FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Yearbook of Food and Agricultural Statistics , various years Institut... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows
Harvard Medical School; the Wyss Institute at the Harvard University; and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT, where she engineered drug delivery systems in collaboration with... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- June 2011
- Case
Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises
By: David Moss and Cole Bolton
In early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Institutions; Interest Rates; Policy
Moss, David, and Cole Bolton. "Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises." Harvard Business School Case 711-048, June 2011.
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Competitions & Challenges - Health Care
healthcare, or analytics at an educational institution based in the United States are invited to join in groups of two to four students—from the same school—to tackle a real-world case. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are... View Details
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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
financial stability? Do the banking and shadow banking sectors contribute to financial instability? Do novel financial products contribute to instability? Governance, Incentives, and Culture How important are organizational incentives and culture in financial View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
long-term, programmatic approach to looking at the phenomena of leadership." We asked Khurana to tell us about the current state and potential of leadership studies. Martha Lagace: There's an urgent need for better leadership in View Details
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Women at HBS - Alumni
annual Women's Student Association Dynamic Women in Business Conference in February 2013 drew a sold-out audience for keynote speakers and panel discussions. HBS faculty and academic researchers from other institutions presented papers at... View Details
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About
businesses. Judy is involved in a large number of philanthropic endeavors focusing on children and education and is a founder of Step Up Your Game and a trustee of the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. Steve received a BA from... View Details
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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets
responsibility in more developed markets? In this video, Professors Tarun Khanna and Geoffrey Jones discuss a thematic paper using CEM data, published in the Strategic Management Journal in 2017: Overcoming Institutional Voids Comparative... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
it in capsule form, and added tamper-evident packaging even though those steps could have been used against J&J as an admission of guilt in a lawsuit. When Intel first became dominant in its product market, top management instituted... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Contagion By: Hal S. Scott MAY 2016 Systematic runs on financial institutions were the main culprits of the financial meltdown of 2008, not over-exposure in connected balance sheets. Hal Scott argues this insight in his new book,... View Details
- January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers
By: Stuart C. Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
With nearly $700 billion in assets, Lehman was the largest U.S. bankruptcy in history. In 2007, Lehman achieved record earnings of over $4 billion on revenues of $60 billion. By September 2008 the fourth largest investment bank in the world was bankrupt. How had a... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Accounting Policies; Business Ethics; Financial Reporting; Volatility; Judgments; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Investment Banking; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)
Gilson, Stuart C., Kristin Mugford, and Sarah L. Abbott. "The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers." Harvard Business School Case 217-041, January 2017. (Revised January 2019.)
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
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Our Curriculum - Business History
both in entrepreneurship and general management. Course syllabus Creating the Modern Financial System Taught by David Moss This second-year elective offers a vital perspective on finance and the financial system by exploring the historical development of key financial... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
earned paychecks for goods and services, pledge our lives to another person in marriage, cast a ballot for someone who will represent our interests. We rely on laws and contracts as safety nets, but even those systems are ultimately built on trust in the View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- August 2022 (Revised October 2023)
- Case
Bajaj Finance: Building an Omnipresent Financial Services Firm
By: Das Narayandas and Rachna Tahilyani
Bajaj Finance, India’s largest consumer finance firm with $20.9 billion of assets across 50.5 million customers, is on a journey to transform itself from a traditional firm that sells loans and other financial products through brick-and-mortar outlets to an omnipresent... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Transformation; Financial Instruments; Customer Satisfaction; Internet and the Web; Customer Focus and Relationships; India
Narayandas, Das, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Bajaj Finance: Building an Omnipresent Financial Services Firm." Harvard Business School Case 523-040, August 2022. (Revised October 2023.)
- 16 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries