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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Harvard alumni living in Mexico and elsewhere and the other half from corporate donations, mainly from Mexican companies. Harvard provided matching funds to the first $1 million, as part of an initiative to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
boards of directors are keenly interested in the latest sustainability or corporate responsibility report. They do not routinely ask for or receive a product safety review. Risk management committees... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
necessarily the best team leader, because a lot of board members don't value the team leadership aspect of the position." Clifford F. Baker put it this way: "Having worked for a living in a corner... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
Europe, Asia once-a-year, Latin America once a year, etc. And with that type of extended travel, you do have downtime on weekends, during weekdays, and browsing museums was one View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Aubry, MBA 2001 Kimberly Lei, MBA 2001 Bluesolid (now Appear Networks) has created a software company focusing on WLAN and Bluetooth networks (the so-called WLAN hotspots). The company has gained 15 large corporate customers during its... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and broader interpretations of business's role in society surfaces throughout Keen's story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
firms' corporate board members, using data from a private research company specializing in biographical information on company officials. Looking at the data, the team found a large correlation between the ethnic makeup View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
P. Donham, a graduate of Harvard Law School who later practiced law and had taught corporate finance at the business school. His background led him to see strong parallels between the two professions. In a... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
help a lot through modifying and extending key policies, particularly in the area of results information and removing restrictive and unnecessary impediments to competition. The corporate practice View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no recession has materialized. Part... View Details
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
which to honor the stories of these communities. Thenmozhi’s work has been recognized by the U.S. Congress, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, The Producers Guild of View Details
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America (Davivienda), among others, to understand how to evaluate the potential in new ways of doing business. 2. Resources and the Continuum of Effective View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their friends to pick... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
levers that politicians pull to spring the trap, including appointment of favored regulators, control of budget appropriations, and direct arm bending of regulators on behalf... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Sloan Foundation Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution, and the John E. Rovensky Fellowship Fund. He was interviewed by Laura Linard, the director of HBS Historical Collections.Linard: Can you... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
hallelujah. But if you’re not, then you have to think about some ways to improve that.” Engaging in meaningful corporate social responsibility can boost a company’s trust factor. Partnering with a company in a more trusted field or... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
include the World Economic Forum, IDEO, airlines, and many government and border operations. SEPTEMBER 18 Sara Vicente Barreto (MBA 2009) is a corporate strategist whose blog, “Make Space for Growth,” offers insights on personal and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
in the power space, where corporates like Heineken or the Garden City Mall in Nairobi will pay the fully loaded cost of electricity to firms like Symbion Power or CrossBoundary Energy. These power producers... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
lagging expansion plans for its Supercharger EV station network. The number of new charging ports opened from May through August tumbled 28 percent from the same period a year earlier. The reason? “Widespread layoffs in April gutted the... View Details