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- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
embarking on their second encore career. There were entomologists and investment bankers and fashion designers. It was the most diverse group I’d taught in a while. I have an underlying thesis in teaching “How to Create a Climate... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
ownership. “We spent much of the day being fascinated by what we were seeing — then it came down to preparing something concrete,” says Camille. “Because we didn’t know anything about the market beforehand, we spent a lot of time figuring out the different classes of... View Details
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
investment fund. When the wow of the paycheck wore off, he was unhappy. Whatever Rogers was destined to do, this wasn’t it. His boss suggested business school, and Stanford accepted, but a fortuitous dinner in Dallas found him seated next... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Kaplan and Porter are looking closely at alternative funding models that help align incentives with better patient outcomes, especially bundled payments that strongly motivate providers along a patient’s care cycle to integrate and... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a course that was specifically about consumer finance. Here at HBS, we have a rich set of finance electives, including courses on... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
Organizations, explores the internal complexities of people in control. Plus: Book excerpt. 16. Rethinking Retirement Planning Many of us are relying on defined contribution plans to help fund retirement. But Harvard Business School... View Details
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- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
reported in their recent working paper, "Superstars and Underdogs: An Examination of the Long-Tail Phenomenon in Video Sales," and have significant implications not only for the types of films studios decide to fund in future,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
investments in rehabbing existing houses and apartment buildings as well as ground-up construction of homes sold directly to qualified buyers. In 1982, we built the Allen Christian School (ACS), which, after a recent expansion, can now... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
is located in Dudley Square, Roxbury’s commercial hub and the intersection of several major streets — there’s a quiet hum of activity in the open, airy room where twelve BCC staffers are beginning their day. Since its founding in 1985, BCC has View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
capital to fund its investment thesis, which was derived from Tomas and Rodrigo’s belief that the rise of Colombia’s middle class signaled an enormous untapped investment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
document that must be audited and filed with the appropriate regulatory agency. A separate CSR report also marginalizes the importance of nonfinancial information to shareholders. While Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
bespoke, and digital media. Because Spiegel & Grau, a Random House imprint that holds the rights to the book, lacks the funds to market Carter's memoir at a scale deserving of a superstar, Droga5 is asking Microsoft to shoulder most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
stations. I hope the uptime metric means that more people will give thought to the funding needed and will signal to companies that the time is now to invest in the means necessary to meet the 97% standard,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
competition so that I could then win some money that I could use to fund the company. Morrell: Aldi and his team won that competition and $25,000 dollars for the company. It was also their introduction to the Omidyar Network, their first... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
George: I teach governance and serve on many corporate boards, and I can tell you that once you make the decision to go from a wholly-owned private company to go public, you're getting public money, you're getting investor money, pension... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
(MBA 2011). This year, the NextGen Angels, led by president Brett Gibson (MBA 2011), has invested further in its big idea: launching angel groups in New York (run by Kelsey Morgan [HBS 2011]), Chicago, Boston and Austin, growing to more... View Details