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Digital Marketing Strategy

When the tools of marketing change, strategies change too. The focus of this course is on firms trying to navigate the transition from offline to online market-making and strategy development. Our concern is primarily with corporations that have products and... View Details

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

01 Dec 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

innovators who are creating and implementing new solutions to these daunting challenges. The only barrier to empowering many of these entrepreneurs is the availability of funding to ensure that their ideas can get off the ground and... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

“There are many things that entrepreneurs can do to position themselves to bounce back from a failure.” If new funds aren’t forthcoming, the founder will likely put the company up for sale, confronting prospective buyers who’ll play a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

that the taxes they endorsed started out small in scope and size but have multiplied by a factor of eight as a share of our economy, have we gone off course? After all, when an income tax was introduced in 1862 to fund the Civil War, it... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

growing dependency ratios at the level of the firm tell us, regardless of where we are in the world. But several deplored what has been done about them. According to Francine McKenna, "There's no pension crisis in the executive suite . The average worker is View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

gender equity at HBS and beyond. We have an incredible list of sponsors who, through their funding and support, help us deliver extensive programming for all members. In the 2023-2024 school year, our focus for the WSA centered around... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees, earned income from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details

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Wyss House | About

was rededicated in 2006 to honor Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965), chairman and former CEO of Synthes, Inc., a pioneering company in the field of medical technology and devices. In 2004, Wyss established the Hansjörg Wyss Endowment for Doctoral Education at HBS, a far-reaching... View Details

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Drew Keller

that provided funds and training for colleges to start programs for students like my sister. Today, there are 18 programs in the state, and my sister graduated from Penn State Harrisburg in 2019. What’s the best thing about your home... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for "Data-driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen" with Dimitris J. Bertsimas, Omar Skali Lami, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, et al. Edward McFowland III : Recipient of a 2018 Adobe Faculty Research Award , a... View Details

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

Publications 2006 Nature Reviews Beyond Magic Bullets: True Innovation in Health Care By: Narayan, Vaibhav A., Marco Mohwinckel, Gary Pisano, Michael Yang, and Husseini Manji Abstract—The molecular medicine revolution-based on advances in fields such as genomics and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Victoria Ivashina

20 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker

Research Summary

Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons

A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context. In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment: a... View Details

Article

Use of Connected Digital Products in Clinical Research Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Analysis of Clinical Trials

By: Caroline Marra, William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern

Objectives: In an effort to mitigate COVID-19 related challenges for clinical research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new guidance for the conduct of ‘virtual’ clinical trials in late March 2020. This study documents trends in the use of... View Details

Keywords: Connected Digital Products; Telehealth; Remote Monitoring; Health Testing and Trials; Research; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology

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2014
Case

Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Siqun Yang and Meihua Shen

Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some... View Details

Keywords: Rural Entrepreneurship; Value Added; China; Risk Management; Microfinance; China

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26 May 2016
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

Morgan Global Investment Management, Portfolio Manager 2005 Named CEO, J.P. Morgan Private Bank 2005 Joins Board of Directors, U.S. Fund for UNICEF 2009 Named CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management 2013 Launches Women on the Move initiative at... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

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Diversity and Equity - Alumni

research—will strengthen our community, business education, and the practice of management. ” Srikant Datar Dean, Harvard Business School George F. Baker Professor of Administration How You can Help Advance inclusion at Harvard Business School by giving to the HBS... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the back office. In... View Details

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