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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog

should appeal to students who want to work as part of senior leadership teams, particularly finance executives; as strategy consultants or investment bankers who advise organizations; or as private equity, View Details

19 May 2023
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Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

instructive. Blood is Co-Founder of Generation Investment Management. “The short answer is ‘absolutely yes,’ because the alternative of being pessimistic is not a good alternative. I guess the better answer... View Details

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Sherry Chen

experts from different backgrounds such as real estate development and investment, urban planning, designing and engineering. I met many good friends here who share the same passion for real estate and urban planning, and I believe it... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Services; Other Financial Services

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

core activities in any business. Without a good customer acquisition process, you can’t grow.” A professor at Harvard Business School for 11 years, Cespedes left for an equal time to run a firm, where he learned firsthand the importance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Real Property - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Real Property Course Number 1684 Senior Lecturer John Macomber Lecturer Camille Douglas Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This course is designed for students interested in managing, developing, advising on, or View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

Levenson Keohane (MBA 2000) (McGraw-Hill) With in-depth coverage of cutting-edge social programs and philanthropic initiatives, Keohane shows how social entrepreneurship has radically transformed the nonprofit, private, and public... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

The charter school movement was supposed to transform American public education. So far, though, the results have been mixed. But HBS grads nationwide are offering new approaches, innovative methods, unique models—all of them begging the... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

17 Dec 2020
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9 Ways to Have a Better 2021

illustrations by Rose Wong Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness Invest in the New Abnormal Bounce Back from a Blunder Hit Pause Kill Groupthink Up Your Time Affluence Advance Racial Equity in the... View Details

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W.... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

However, most of these investors also trade in public securities. This leads to a controversial question: do institutional investors use private information received in the loan market to trade in public... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

the company were liquidated. Market value reflects the total value of a public company’s outstanding shares based on the market price for a share. A stock with higher book-to-market ratio, such as when it is higher than 1, is considered... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Tariro Goronga

the kind of political views they might hold. I’ve become good friends with people who hold opposite opinions. HBS challenged all the prejudices I had and proved them to be wrong.” Overall, the section experience, Tariro believes, is “a... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

Editor's note: Many economic regulators, influenced by the work of Mancur Olson, maintain the notion that consumers hold little sway over big-industry concerns. They argue that diffuse interests of the "little guys" lack the strength and organization necessary to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

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Biotech, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals: Business and Management focused topics

ABI/ProQuest - articles from academic and industry publications that covers all aspects of business and management topics, including some company SWOT analysis and quarterly industry profiles. ScienceDirect - articles... View Details

28 Apr 2025
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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs

Bowdoin College, and a former talent acquisition and management professional. Through her observations from both sides – the hired and the hiring – she’s detected a paradox that can frustrate all parties. “It’s costly to get new hires,” she says. “Yet for all that... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2018
News

Raising the Barrio

one did anything.” Mayor Rodríguez Larreta (above) plans to reinvigorate the “misery towns” of Buenos Aires by providing basic public services and diverting the highway that bisects the barrio (below). Bloomberg/Getty Images Villa 31 has... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Jan 2019
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Raising Prospects for Female Funders

Maria Eugenia Giron (MBA 1992) is an entrepreneur and investor in the luxury goods industry, based in Madrid. She’s a cofounder of Rising Tide Europe, a women’s angel investing group that is part of an... View Details

17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

indoor-generated contaminants to maintain good indoor air quality. The IRA will accelerate the adoption of proven technologies like Sorbent Ventilation Technology by providing funding for state and local governments to adopt more... View Details

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

both goods on its own. “Most of us—even those who have never studied the theory of comparative advantage—tend to live by it in our own personal affairs every day” To make this more concrete, assume that each country had 1,200 workers, and... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

01 Dec 2016
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Recognizing the Value Proposition

of his 50th Reunion that he hopes will be focused on the intersection of business and life sciences. McCance is well versed in investing in good ideas and is particularly interested in how business skills... View Details

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