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- 25 Apr 2014
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Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
Oteh's bold decisions have cleaned up the Nigerian capital markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country's stock market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
competitor analysis, trend research, and leadership programs. Since then, the team has helped Granite Equity research individual company profiles, whether it’s for an acquisition or a vendor or a potential partner. The service also has helped make long-term strategic... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
Jumping In, Fighting Bias
marketing, and transitioned to an entirely new industry, accepting the role of CMO at Sequoia Capital. She made the decision after drawing on the advice of a handful of personal advisors, including Judy Zhu (MBA 2009), founder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
the investment and financing decisions that are made during the development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
moving forward while others wait for certainty, or make impetuous and foolish bets. These strategic mindsets for solving tough problems in uncertain times help you fight decision biases and give you the data to develop informed strategies... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
golf.” Out of office: “I paint landscapes and portraiture.” It’s a hobby Motley’s pursued since the age of four. Fork in the road: “Engineering versus art school. My dad made that decision for me, and I ended up in engineering school.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
tempted to leave, but then I thought about the fact that I had so much riding on this decision to be here, and there were so many people who supported me. The next day when I arrived on the HBS campus, for a while I didn’t see any blacks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became apparent that many states had played fast and loose with their pension funding. Some states slashed benefits, others contemplated bankruptcy. You might think state governments, burned badly once, would be eager to clean... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
So the Market Map is informing our members’ decisions by refocusing their philanthropic portfolio toward democracy reform at the state and federal levels. There is a range of organizations and initiatives that members are coming together... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
reward. After a year, the researchers sat down to analyze the results. Ashraf is a behavioral economist, so she knows people make financial decisions in complex ways, but even she was surprised by what they found: Hairdressers with the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
the work and knowing that a consulting salary would help mitigate the debt she and her husband, Alberto Fernandes (MBA 2012), had acquired to finance their degrees, she turned down the company’s offer of postgraduation employment.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
two being able to find synopses of Harvard Business School research on hundreds of topics. Would you like to know more, for example, about the investment and financing decisions that are made during the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
responsibilities include overseeing finances and operations, helping set and implement company strategy, fundraising/keeping investors updated, business development, legal work, interviewing/hiring/onboarding employees, and working... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Better Hiring Through Brain Science
the difference between consulting and finance and marketing and entrepreneurship,” says Polli. Career paths in accounting or consulting, for example, usually correlated to attention to detail and a lack of impulsive behavior, she says;... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
in the computer industry, while Professor Malcolm S. Salter's work on corporate strategy, organization, and governance looks at how ownership structure affects organizational performance. Asso-ciate Professor Karen Hopper Wruck, who specializes in corporate View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
of things. The 72 alumni were among 400 who returned to campus to join 936 students for the inaugural HBS Boardroom, a new RC capstone experience that includes first-year student teams presenting case-based management decisions to alumni... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
that both sets of data have a significant impact on the long-term success and reputation of the company. Through integrated reporting, or a One Report, companies demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, make better decisions based... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles