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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
many HBS graduates, to invest in new ways of solving old problems. The five social entrepreneurs featured below are a representative sample of the scores of alums who have dedicated themselves to creating or working for organizations that... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
being called out. There was a randomness and arbitrariness to it that was disorienting. Similarly, companies with significant international operations would find themselves suddenly disrupted. Companies were concerned about being caught... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime avoidance. Moreover, protection activities by one group can displace crime onto another group. We take advantage of a dramatic increase in crime rates in Argentina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss, including emails and Slack messages. The idea was to create a machine “stand-in” that could... View Details
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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
transactions. The course will also explore legal issues involved in starting, joining or investing in start-ups and decision making from the time an entrepreneur conceives, starts to build and obtains financing through development of exit... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
investment in producing video content for the web. The case concludes by presenting various options under consideration by Abrahams-options that dealt both with external challenges (How should he define his brand? Which markets should he... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
to make the $3.5 million Roadside Romeo. The first-of-its-kind animated Hindi movie barely broke even. All told, Hollywood studios invested an estimated $100 million on producing films in India between 2007 and 2009. But box-office... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
entrepreneur’s Flashfood app at a Toronto supermarket hadn’t gone well, ending with confusion among customers and ire from the store manager. But Domingues, who had launched the app after learning that international food waste was the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
three years of fast food experience. By contrast, Torres continues, incumbent C-level exes are “overly focused on internal issues and opt to invest in familiar technologies rather than taking bold risks.”... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the military people and shared... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
$30,000, Norton packaged UnErase with other programs he'd written for IBM PC users, selling them under the name Norton Utilities. Norton's stock rose with IBM's, and his original investment grew into multiple millions. No longer active in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
was more physical. A former triathlete, he was invited by his investment firm’s partners to a hot yoga class. “I could not believe how I felt afterward,” he recalls. “That halo effect after a good sweat—it opened up my chest, and I got... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for balance-of-payments support. Over the 1980s and early 1990s, the unpopular policy conditions associated with IMF loan programs made the Fund a lightning rod for criticism over Jamaica's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments for a dozen years before joining... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
Citicorp Investment Bank, first in New York, then in London. Then I came back, and for over 15 years, I worked at Institutional Investor. The last 10 of those years were as managing director of a research group that I helped to launch. By... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
time it takes to handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." Wingspanbank.com HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young