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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
will soon open the C. Roland Christensen Center, a facility designed for case-method teaching that was the vision of one of his former students. A memorial service was held for Christensen on November 5 at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. Donations in his memory may be... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
trauma edged in too: The King George Hotel, just next door, sold for a song in 2017, when Eurobank was unloading foreclosed properties to bring down the balance of its nonperforming loans. “Forty-three million euros, it was the best offer we got,” says Arhodidis. View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
conditions. In this case, Western consumers were taking responsibility not for their own health but for the health and safety of workers in a foreign land thousands of miles away. Consumer power has not been that evident as a criterion in... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
of Dublin, Ireland-based Elan Drug Technologies (EDT)-a deal that was expected to close in the fall. The case describes the history of Alkermes, provides information about the planned merger, and details the funding options. The case... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
early pioneer of this proactive approach, also undertaken by Kathy Giusti’s MBA 1985 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and John Crowley’s MBA 1997 Amicus Therapeutics.) The MJFF demands accountability and results, brings together academics and pharma/biotech... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS influences a country's shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt IFRS, perceived benefits from lowering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
higher and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their home investments drop in the year after the investment, while they have a positive change in the year after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192460 Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks Authors:Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Open Market Joyce I. Greenberg - Take Good Care Monique Maddy - African Communications Group Steven C. Walske - Parametric Technology Corp. Indeed, from "paperless" magazines to services that search for hard-to-find foreign news stories,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
perspective. They have no natural resources, which makes them highly dependent on imports from foreign countries. From a climate-change perspective, everyone knows [the current model] isn't sustainable anymore. There's a diverse economic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
of product development, felt that a substantial portion of the new funding was needed to rework Open English's platform to enable the additional growth. She was concerned that the company's learning platform (LP)-the core set of software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
movement morphed into a violent, deadly confrontation in January, culminating in February in mass slaughter, an overthrow of government, foreign invasion, and international crisis. The four months that shook Ukraine is a case study on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established firms do appear to prefer internal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
other aid be considered Independent third-party verification of the loan must be available to HBS Eligible loans types typically include: U.S. federal student aid (e.g., Perkins, GradPLUS, Stafford) U.S. state programs (e.g., MEFA, VSAC, etc.) View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
deliver or a better way to deliver existing goods and services. They are funded by donors, many of them poor or anonymous. Yet these attributes should not be unfamiliar to economists. Development NGOs, like domestic nonprofits, can be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
closes in 2015. Yirendai sought to capture its customers and make virtually instantaneous credit decisions online. CreditEase’s commercial success makes funding Yirendai’s growth not an issue. P2P lending in China, after explosive growth... View Details