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- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to and marketing of an individually held commitment savings product lead to an increase in female decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specifically the ability to identify what is distinctive about markets that differ from the students’ home environments, and how to manage in such unfamiliar terrain. The centerpiece of FIELD 2 is an exercise that challenges cross-section... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
country’s leafy greens are produced in Arizona or California, according to the states' Leafy Green Marketing Agreement, and transportation to New England can take weeks; FreshBox being able to offer Massachusetts consumers a locally grown... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders focus on two things: a new approach to View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
concrete skills such as marketing or sales experience, aim to gain insight into one’s influences, family history, and internalized messages: When you're overwhelmed, do you seek support or are you more likely to hide for fear of being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
which raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital only to get wiped out in the dotcom bust. But entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were making expensive bets well before Silicon Valley existed, says Alex Lazarow. Alex... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory and environmental issues. “It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
markets are going to bear. That’s the core challenge. Can we find solutions that can scale quickly enough to start allowing us to make some headway against CO2 emissions and do it at a cost point that’s going to work in the marketplace?... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign investment and where there are no local capital markets, if foreign... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
microinsurance market. She finished HBS as a Leadership Fellow, launching Accion International’s microinsurance program in 2005. A follow-up project at Capital One, introducing prepaid debit cards to unbanked customers in the United... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
interest to torch the planet. Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, points out that insured losses from extreme weather events have risen five-fold in the last 30 years. He wonders if the financial markets face the risk of a... View Details
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
Christensen. 9. Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative Published: May 23, 2012 How do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? HBS faculty experts in culture, customers, creativity, marketing, and the DNA... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
Samuel Hayes and Hugo Uyterhoeven, two longtime HBS faculty members, retired in June. Summaries of their distinguished careers follow. Samuel L. Hayes, III, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, joined the HBS faculty in 1972. An expert on View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
merchandise sales, with sales so far topping only $30 million, compared to Vancouver's $51 million. Such lackluster performance spells trouble not only for the Games themselves, but also for all of the brands that hope to ride its bobsled to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
interests were extremely broad, especially when I considered different functions” she recalled. Adam’s analytical aptitude coupled with his appetite for understanding climate change solutions resonated with Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), a venture View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Profiting from the World’s Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends by Bud Conrad (MBA ’71) (Wiley) Conrad predicts a rough road ahead, due to economic imbalances that have built up over the past... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
market rarely rewarded his efforts, and GE struggled. In Hot Seat, Immelt offers an introspection of his tenure. The most crucial component of leadership, he writes, is the willingness to make decisions. But knowing what to do is a... View Details