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- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber Abstract—There is a growing body of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative advisory board. Fleishman is a founder and faculty chair of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
they pursue internally, while relying heavily on outsourcing many of those activities to strategic partners. At the same time, they seek to increase the number and nature of product offerings, many of which are also offered by their... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
"hot" financial markets to get through the initial period of diffusion. Our work underscores that financial markets may play a much larger and under-studied role in creating and magnifying bubbles of innovation in the real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
School's US Competitiveness Project. Because business leaders have a profound economic and moral stake in making that happen, Rivkin adds, "the most progressive of them are moving into hands-on, long-term partnerships with educators. That's what's really needed if... View Details
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
to produce polarized materials, Land was counting on a new initiative to reenergize and propel the company’s growth in peacetime. 8 Land conceived of instant photography in 1943. While on vacation with his family in Santa Fe, New Mexico,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
of snowmobiles, motorcycles, and all-terrain vehicles, until 2008, when he stepped down to consider options such as working with nonprofits or teaching at MIT. But Abound Solar, a manufacturer of solar modules based in Colorado, made him an View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
of Booth Business School at the University of Chicago, and Amit Seru of Stanford Graduate School of Business. Their initial working paper on the results made business headlines in 2016. The best, the worst The researchers found that when... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni
things it has to do, and policy is something you all will have to work on, to make sure we do things right all the time. We all need to do things that make the planet better.” Student speaker Thomas Rajan (MBA ’09) noted that a number of his classmates had not yet... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
You goal, girl
With interest in women's sports and professional leagues soaring, Amy Love (MBA '93) decided it was high time for a publication that would cover the new scene in a serious manner. Instead of simply transposing traditional women's magazine... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
Your Life was offered when they were students. The alumni enjoyed helping current students but also valued the opportunity to have rich conversations on these topics with each other and find ways to learn more. Toward that end, Perlow and... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing technical support, veterinary... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Blog
Exceptional Learning—Wherever You Are
Can a virtual learning experience be as dynamic, energetic, and powerful as a classroom session? With its Live Online Classroom, HBS proves that the answer is a resounding yes. Through an initiative that started long before COVID-19... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
“People often seem surprised when I tell them that unemployment among veterans is lower than the general population,” states Peter Gudmundsson (MBA 1990), president and CEO of RecruitMilitary, a leading military-to-civilian recruiting firm. “I think there’s a View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials The Chase Sapphire Reserve card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016. But what would be JP Morgan's next act be? State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders Index funds are the major shareholders in many large-... View Details
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HBS - From The Dean
Action Week, welcoming alumni and other private and public sector leaders for a day of discussions on the role of business in driving solutions to the climate challenge. The Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society introduced... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
that support addressing climate change—a message arguably more appealing to Americans than the opposition's message of predicted economic disaster. Instead, they offer a business case that also happens to protect children, the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Srinivasan, who also cites the important role of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a nonprofit private corporation created by SOX that oversees auditors of SEC-registered companies. Markets Have Benefitted Despite... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details