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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Finance, Financial Innovation for Social Change Introduction: Ford Foundation, the Other 95% Show Hide Details Concepts Pay for Success Leveraging the Entire Institution for Change The Evolution of Capitalism Featured Exercises Assess... View Details

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

fund for management. For a percentage of the assets managed, or a percentage of the investors' gain, the bank places investors' money in other funds for management. The fee the investor pays the bank is for expertise the investor lacks in... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

developing world. We then discuss how survey techniques can be improved to better measure willingness to pay for urban amenities. Finally, we explain how Internet data is being used to improve the quality of city services. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

recently become sensitive to a gap in our strategy map/BSC framework by not paying sufficient attention to enterprise risk management (ERM). Obviously, many large financial institutions, despite having risk management departments, have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

participation decisions. Based on our experimental results, we suggest preliminary lessons for improving the design of household risk management contracts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-116.pdf Where Is the Pharmacy to the World? View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

Testing data on 13,000 shoppers To show how the model works, Ascarza and Padilla fed it some customer data supplied by an international retailer that sells its own brand of beauty products exclusively in its stores and on its website.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

support all these activities through a conscious and proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. To learn more, read Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

With very clean emissions, 60 and 70 MPG fuel consumption, and lots of power, diesel compacts would provide stiff competition to hybrids. But GM has just lost its ability to develop small cars with the sale of its Opel subsidiary to Canadian auto parts maker Magna... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

17 Oct 2022
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Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

benefits. Now, they say, we are reaping the consequences of that misapprehension. Employees left their jobs at alarming rates over the past year as they reassessed their lives in the face of COVID-19. Other workers are “quietly quitting,” resolving to do the bare... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

Visibility, or lack thereof, played a significant role in my life, and telling my story on National Coming Out Day is an opportunity to pay it forward and live true to my parent’s final lesson of helping others. Toni Morrison put it best:... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below provides an interesting and... View Details

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

taught courses that include Business, Government and International Economy and Managing International Trade and Investment. A prolific writer, Spar's books including Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery,... View Details

16 May 2000
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Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

no one knows which half. "On the Web, we can tell you which half isn't working," asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA'89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

02 Oct 2006
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Negotiating in Three Dimensions

your agent may not be enough. For example, top executive pay attorney Joe Bachelder once took his client aside after the first negotiating session. The board had selected his client to be its next CEO and was working out his compensation... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

international development and microfinance. Today, as cofounder of pathZERO Energy, she’s leading an effort to help businesses transition to cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy solutions through improved efficiency, better data, and... View Details

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show that this is due to workers... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Feb 2022
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Making an Impact on the Media Industry with my MBA

shoes of a case protagonist! Our discussions are illuminating given the breadth of industry and international perspectives exchanged in class. This conversation manifests beyond the classroom as 80 minutes never seems long enough! I was... View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

School Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Jul 09 6 Weeks $1,850 + applicable international taxes Payment deadline July 7 View weekly calendar Enroll Now Starting Sep 03 6 Weeks $1,850 + applicable... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

lower total cost. Further, cannabis businesses pay a much higher share of net income as taxes, compared to other businesses of similar scale. That’s because, according to the Internal Revenue Code,... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

By Mattias Fibiger, Assistant Professor of Business, Government and International Economy at Harvard Business School Oxford University Press After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country’s communist... View Details

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