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06 Dec 2021
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Monaco's Digital Transformation

his third year leading Monaco’s digital transformation, Genta is capitalizing on the country’s strengths in pursuit of this vision to further public service and enhance economic prosperity. “What makes Monaco different is that we have an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2012
News

What Makes Israel Tick?

1951). The group also traveled to the Palestinian West Bank to assess the status of financial and social institutions required for successful statehood. Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice Arthur Segel chaired the Israel... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
News

A Case For Fellowships

role in our classrooms; our offerings are only as good as our students. Because of fellowship support, we are able to adhere to a need-blind admissions policy, accepting students based on their talents and aspirations without regard to their View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that hard-wiring performance is a winning... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

financial and accounting professionals, regulators, corporate executives, educators, fund managers and environmental sustainability advocates around the topic, according to the organizer, HBS professor Robert G. Eccles. Eccles, a pioneer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings.... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

August 2002
Case

eBay (C): PayPal Merger

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Internet; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry

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Through the development of a proprietary computer system, Bloomberg built one of the most successful financial news, information and analysis services in the country. Competing against stalwarts like Dow... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Enterprise Initiative 25th anniversary blog series, which hi... Building an Impact Investing Ecosystem in China Cissy Chen 10 Jan 2019 Before coming to HBS, I worked for a number of years in financial View Details

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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog

with the appropriate financial and human resources, and scaling. The course will explore which areas of the life sciences are ripe for innovation and entrepreneurship and will cover therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and related View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together... View Details

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

ongoing debate about the impact of using financial incentives for donors or their families to encourage anatomical donations (Clay and Block 2002; Delmonico et al. 2002; Harrington and Sayre 2006; Obermann 1998). Similarly, surveys of... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

imbalance. Gates noted that about half of the foundation’s annual grants, or $1.6 billion, is devoted to global health, with around $800 million each devoted to grassroots financial services in the... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

February 1995 (Revised November 1996)
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MasterCard and World Championship Soccer

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop

The MasterCard vice president for global promotions and other MasterCard executives are appraising the results of MasterCard's worldwide sponsorship of the 1994 World Cup soccer championship. They must decide whether to commit to sponsor the 1998 championship to be... View Details

Keywords: Credit Cards; Marketing Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Advertising Campaigns; Globalization; Sports; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; France; United States

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Tasneem previously worked in financial services on the sell-side at Lehman Brothers and at Matrix Partners. As Founding Partner of Excelestar Ventures, notable investments of hers are Augmenix (acq. by... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

01 Jun 2011
News

Eye in the Storm

business-model and financial challenges confronting traditional media everywhere. Schocken is a free-market, pro-business advocate who is “a singular force in Israeli journalism on issues such as free speech, equal rights for Israeli... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Faculty Learn Firsthand about Chinese Business

deep connections with HBS alumni on the mainland, McFarlan arranged a six-city itinerary of meetings with executives of major consumer products, textile, software, energy, microfinance, and banking concerns. In Beijing, the group spent two hours discussing View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

forward. The Turkish banking industry was undergoing a transformation prompted by the demands of the country's digitally savvy, young population, and by new regulations on consumer banking that threatened banks' profitability. Akbank had a legacy as the best View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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