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Family Welfare Good source for information on healthcare policy and efforts of the national government to improve access to healthcare. View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Turning Point: The Dark Season

talk about life and spiritual principles while engaging with each other as a team—building unity, being transparent, and applying scripture to everyday life. What I offer is a source of peace and recognition that we don’t have all the... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)

01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

business school faculty at the University of Chicago, where he created a new course titled Entrepreneurial Finance and Management. Gompers joined the HBS faculty in 1995. His research focuses on the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

06 Sep 2012
News

Fashion-Forward

really just a means to help me form and develop my ideas. The first month, I sent it to 20 or 30 friends. That’s the only marketing I ever did for it.” Since then, the Business of Fashion has grown steadily at a rate of over 100 percent annually, serving as the go-to... View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2011
News

On the Outside at HBS

unfair situations. Looking back, I learned the most about basic human interaction during those ad hoc conversations — both formally in the HBS classroom and outside it. I often wonder about the source of my discomfort at HBS. It’s not... View Details

17 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Going the Distance for Investment Excellence

perspective rather than one overly focused on one area.” Cameron credits the HBS network, especially Career & Professional Development (CPD) Career Coaches, in helping him navigate his career journey both as a student and thereafter. He utilized CPD’s recruiting... View Details

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Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage - Course Catalog

different sources of competitive advantage and their properties; the creation and evolution of competitive advantage; and the determinants that make competitive advantage sustainable or not. In the process, the course also pays attention... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)

venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in The Hague, the son of a... View Details

Keywords: Georges F. Doriot; John G. McLean; Alumni Achievement Award; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

expansion for U.S. Steel, increased output of steel from foreign sources began to impact domestic markets. With their post-war economic recoveries well underway, Europe and Japan emerged as major competitors in the global steel market.... View Details

14 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump

dreams of consumers, because a brand that’s built on such appeals will find it hard to grow to be a source of pride. Apparently misogyny, xenophobia, and contempt for the disabled have worked as customer acquisition tools for soon-to-be... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Deighton

05 Apr 2021
Blog Post

The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service

counties to help Hikma Health build a COVID-19 policy map to inform policy makers, data scientists, and the public about regional differences in policies. This made it possible to analyze different policies’ effects on COVID-19 outcomes. The fight to help small... View Details

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investors and over 4,000 impact investment deals. For more on other VCPE sources (Capital IQ, CB Insights, etc.), see our VCPE Research Guide. Research Reports MSCI ESG Direct Provides access to industry specific and thematic research... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices

problems for learning and for change." Jensen believes this tendency is the source of most so-called people problems in organizations. Jensen's model defines two regimes of behavior: the Resourceful, Evaluative, Maximizing Model (REMM)... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)

April 1994 (Revised September 1994)
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KENETECH Corporation

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Involves a strategic decision about how fast to ramp up sales. Improvements in technology have driven down the cost of electric power generated from wind turbines to the point where they are competitive with fossil-fuel plants. KENETECH needs to raise equity capital to... View Details

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Going Public; Sales; Competition; Energy Industry

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November 2003 (Revised May 2016)
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Weetman Pearson and the Mexican Oil Industry (A)

By: Geoffrey Jones and Lisa Bud-Freirman

Taught in the MBA Evolution of Global Business course, a business history course on the growth of multinationals. Explores the role of the British entrepreneur Weetman Pearson in developing the Mexican oil industry before 1914. Shows this entrepreneur's evolution from... View Details

Keywords: History; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Renewable Energy; Growth Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Industry; Mexico

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22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

world for the better over the next two years, and will prepare us for the inevitable pandemics that follow. William A. Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. John... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

In the process, he shows how organizations can best equip themselves to take advantage of potential sources of competitive advantage that arise in the global setting. In International Finance: A Casebook, Desai provides case studies on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50191 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry Abstract—Volunteers provide a large View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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