Paris - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

evaluate Patron's alternatives: IPO the platform, seek a strategic investor, or sell the platform outright. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/213069-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 212-003 The Paris Opera Hotel Real estate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Entrepreneurs Promise Signers - Alumni

Christopher Torto (MBA 1992), Ascenty Data Centers* Anita Venkiteswaran (MBA 2012) Paul Vidal (MBA 2012), Kingsway Financial Inc Anant Vinjamoori (MBA 2013), Next Generation Medicine Paris Wallace (MBA 2007) Fred Wang (MBA 2020) Geng Wang... View Details

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

Are you getting them across? Many communication errors stem from a naïve belief among marketing people that they're necessarily trying to connect with people exactly like themselves. For example, many retailers overlook issues of nationality, language, ethnicity, and... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

Ferreras, professor of sociology at the Université catholique de Louvain and a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Worklife Program, and Dominique Méda, a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in the Social... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

precipitates joblessness, which leads to more addiction and disorder—the quintessential vicious cycle. The Kabul of the pre-1970s Soviet onslaught was the Paris of Central Asia, successful in agriculture, tourism and hospitality. Post-war... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

01 Jun 2000
News

Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

purchase" may also be on the horizon, he somewhat sheepishly describes a classic house outside Paris that tempted him a few weeks before and says, "Never say never." View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

04 Mar 2008
News

HBS Blogs

Things, http://1000awesomethings.com/ ("a time-ticking countdown of 1,000 awesome things; begun June 2008) MBA 2007E Clint Peterson, http://www.cdpetey.blogspot.com/ (travel commentary; archived since Sept. 2007) MBA 2008H Daniel Longo, Daniel Longo View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

diplomacy : Christiana Figueres guides the Paris climate talks to a near-unanimous agreement in 2015; Colombian President Juan Santos ends a 50-year civil war with the FARC guerillas; US Trade Negotiator Charlene Barshefsky takes on IP... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Savings and Loam

all millennials park their money at the three largest banks. It’s a disconnect that he finds “viscerally aggravating,” given that those institutions have bankrolled the fossil-fuel industry—and, with it, the carbon emissions that are underpinning climate change. Since... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

1981) KORTENHORST and KORMI: The global energy transition involves the public and private sectors alike. Global R&D budgets for energy are growing, with 20 countries, including the United States, making commitments at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference... View Details

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Texas NVC. For the Europe Region, the HBS Club of Paris hosted the Europe Regional Competition on March 15, with three semi-finalists, Borrago, SmartGuide and WeMaintain who had advanced from a field of 17 teams representing countries... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

built brands that shaped perceptions of beauty and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

traditionally disenfranchised. For this study, Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France, co-written with Guillaume Liegey, the researchers canvassed eight cities in the suburbs of Paris... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

In 1995, the Vatican dismissed an outspoken French bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Arguing that Gaillot had been far too liberal for the Church's doctrine, Vatican officials removed him from his diocese outside Paris and sent him to... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

01 Sep 2010
News

Leslie Gold

mom turns off the parts she doesn’t like. These days, it doesn’t matter if you’re famous for a good or bad reason. Even Paris Hilton can one day become an ambassador. Thanks to reality TV, everybody is encouraged to puke up the their most... View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

London or the Quai D'Orsay in Paris (the French Foreign Ministry) or the Central Party School in Beijing, where all the top Chinese bureaucrats go, you're probably beginning to change your views not just about Congress but the whole... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Marcela Sapone

undergrad ever hired by the famed management consulting firm. She spent two years at McKinsey before being transferred to its Paris office. There, she realized she had taken a career misstep and when she spent her August vacation back in... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

against a backdrop of unusually sobering geopolitical events, including the attack on Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris and a suicide bombing at a police station in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet quarter, not far from the area where... View Details

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