State Capitalism - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

downloadable to their PalmPilots, but spreadsheet toolkits that deliver core calculations like that bane of the required Finance course, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). It also enables Professor McAfee, for example, to poll... View Details

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

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

in their free time seemed too much like work, so we shifted to companies allowing employees to work on company time. We also began working with companies to align efforts to their core human capital and business development strategies so... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2013
News

Leading the Way

offering users the opportunity to more easily find and connect with other alumni. The new website will also highlight stories of alumni—as well as faculty and students—and showcase the difference they are making in the world. The Importance of Innovation NN: The... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

stated that their ventures were separate from their parent company, but their daily work processes indicated otherwise. Online sales reps still reported to and had offices near their print managers, for example. This direct reporting and... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Research; and Robert Higgins, managing general partner and founder of VC firm Highland Capital Partners. As a physician, Bohmer is interested in the delivery side of health care—how care is given to patients. "Health care reform, in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

started with the company's employees a few years earlier, was an effort to educate and inform customers on how to lead a healthier lifestyle. What CEO Craig Boyan had in mind was creating a state-wide healthy living movement in Texas, where obesity was high relative to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979, JD 1981) and Scott Webster (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

equipment over time. The case details PEG’s business model, growth strategy, financial structure, and the landscape of investment capital in West Africa during the time of the case. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2015
News

Higher Ground

with the orchestra. The post was followed by a series of conducting positions in the United States (Alabama’s Huntsville Symphony and the Houston Symphony) and Mexico (the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa) before his guest-conducting stints... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

at funding infrastructure. The government has to be as they did with IRA providing incentives for capital to come in, to work on some of these projects and the banking and asset management and insurance industries have to be there, ready... View Details

October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)

By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney

The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied... View Details

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01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

not as giving back but as ‘giving in turn.’ Volunteering keeps me balanced and rooted in the real world.” Of her immediate future, Brown says, “I am interested in providing capital and resources to entrepreneurs to build compelling... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

trust. Why is One Report important now? "The capital markets and our planet have simultaneously reached a fork in the road. One path continues the status quo. The other and new path is a commitment to a better society, stronger financial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

and Martina Cusano (MBA 2009), cofounder and CEO of Mukako. SEPTEMBER 16 In March Reena Jadhav (MBA 1998) launched FreeMeals.org to feed families in need by buying nutritious meals from local restaurants. She was moved by the dramatic rise in food insecurity due to... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Balanced Equation

earning his MBA, Doerr joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980. KPCB’s focus on technology and life sciences, while dramatically changing the landscape of both fields, has also contributed to creation of... View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

April 2024
Case

Dr. Tom Mihaljevic and Cleveland Clinic

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In December 2022, Dr. Tomislav (“Tom”) Mihaljevic, CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic, was reflecting on the last few years at the hospital, marked both by unprecedented challenges and remarkable achievements. Cleveland Clinic had recently been ranked the world’s... View Details