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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
When Pigs Fly, the now popular New England bakery. Lagace: As you write in the book, the number of small-business starts has been declining. Why? Mills: This decline in starts is extremely worrisome. We used to average 500,000 to 600,000... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
tempered with great caution," says Chakravorti. "The entrepreneurs who can capture the limited resources have the potential to do well. Shortage and adversity are powerful stimuli for focusing the mind." At HBS, Chakravorti teaches and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
messiness and the nuances that can be lost in the rapid haste to synthesize. Heavy forces a thinking that expands the reader’s moral imagination. —Caleb Gayle (MBA 2019) is an award-winning journalist who writes about race and identity.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
construction: notably, how to get trillions of dollars of private capital off the sideline to make high-impact investments in water, sanitation, roads, power, and mass transit that will impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people,” View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
write about Terris Moore, who is an MBA student in 1931, who went off in search of a mountain higher than Everest. Tom, it's really great to have you here today to give us that modern day perspective of mountaineering and the outdoor... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
moms don’t have time to do: eat, read, work out, breathe, and have sex. Actress Evangeline Lilly writes about the importance and impact of film. Bestselling author Rene Denfeld focuses on her relationship with food after growing up... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
million members, and generating revenues of over $1.9 billion. Founded by Chinyol Yi, Louis Welch, and Paul Norris in 1984, the privately held company revealed little about its future plans or its operations, leading one journalist to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put option View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
of the Class of 1997 (Jennifer Scott Fonstad, David Rosenblatt, and John Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. "We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
terms of drugs, technology, devices, information technology, and personnel; then secondarily, the current regulations in place and the payment models. Part of the purpose of writing Designing Care has been to emphasize the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
understand why experimental subjects might begin negotiations anticipating "fair" bargains. The model also explains why some parties may have incentives to deliberately write incomplete contracts which cannot be enforced in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
children were off from school. He told us that managers took note of this and realized that it was now okay from them to manage their work-life balance. Q: What are you working on next? A: I am now working with my colleagues to write a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. “We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about writing the best plan and making the best presentation —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
“But it was the right approach for the time,” says Nohria, who joined the faculty in 1988 and, like Palepu, is a native of India. Writing in the Sept./Oct. 2011 issue of Harvard Magazine, he noted, “In the 1980s, the best companies, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
It’s LEAD and TOM, in the sense that my cofounder and I are writing a lot of our content. So how do we scale ourselves? How do we instill processes that would allow us to drop any strong writer into the New Paper so they can produce... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
this much talked-about MBA event, because it views the contest as an in-depth learning experience. "We designed the contest to integrate many aspects of what we've learned in business school - writing a business plan makes all the... View Details
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Program Policies - HBS Online
engage with their peers by commenting on their ideas and writing thoughtful responses to questions posed in the course. HBS Online Programs are only available in English. To understand the course materials, respond to questions, and... View Details