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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

universally recognized symbol was three golden balls. In twenty-first century China, where the demand for investment capital exceeds the capacity of the nation’s state-controlled financial sector, pawnshops and other View Details

26 Mar 2025
Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

compensation, here are some key considerations. 1. Gain Clarity on What Your Equity Actually Means Just knowing how many options or shares are in your grant isn’t sufficient to make an informed decision. You’ll likely want to ask your... View Details

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

won't invest until there is sufficient demand, or a large installed base, but demand won't arise until there is an ample supply of key inputs," he explains. "In our setting, government green-building procurement policies can stimulate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

Africa's challenges, Sachs noted that the fates of the temperate and tropical zones are intrinsically linked, that information technology will be a tremendous help in overcoming many difficulties, and that the reliance on natural... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 17

By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Outsourcing firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories increasingly rely on private social auditors to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

Ask the Expert: In Security

Young takes your questions about how to safeguard an enterprise against today’s threats and those of the never-too-distant future. Where should companies invest their time and dollars to ensure minimal impact of an event and fastest... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

01 Apr 1998
News

Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

profits. In his first visit to HBS, Corzine spoke in January to a large Burden Hall audience about opportunities in, and the outlook for, the investment banking sector. He predicted good times ahead for the industry amid strong demand for... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

across businesses through movements of people from one company to another, supplier-customer collaborations, formal and informal technology sharing, and outright imitation of competitors. Although there is much talk these days about the... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal internal connections between many parts of the organization. With deficient View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2021
News

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

partners Howard E. Cox Jr. (MBA 1969) and Henry F. McCance (MBA 1966), were honored in 2003 with an HBS Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of Greylock’s role in helping to build more than 250 companies and nurturing numerous leading-edge products in a wide range... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Hybrid Learning the HBS Way

students on campus and remote students across the globe. “‘Hybrid learning’ can mean a lot of different things. For us, it meant enabling both in-person and remote students to participate simultaneously in case discussions,” explains Beth Clark, HBS’s deputy chief... View Details

January 2025
Case

AI Meets VC: The Data-Driven Revolution at Quantum Light Capital

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan

Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of Quantum Light Capital, was driven to harness AI for identifying high-potential scale-ups. Collaborating with Nik Storonsky, founder of Revolut, the duo observed that most venture capital (VC) decisions were heavily influenced by emotion, with... View Details

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Educators

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives, advising on transactions valued at... View Details

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

collaboration. Second, they didn't organize effectively for collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

information has a therapeutic use, we have to make a substantial investment - $350 to $500 million - in doing the clinical trial work. From a business standpoint, we need to protect our investment." "High,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

it has proved beneficial. "Markets have been able to use the information to assess companies more effectively, managers have improved internal processes, and the internal control testing has become more cost-effective over... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

information that function as organizational, location, and personnel mobility barriers among quasi-autonomous units within a mega-agency or holding company have become an essential component of conflict policies. Subject to the protection... View Details