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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne.Silverthorne: In... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to advance decarbonization. Lynn Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
and problem solving, he told the gathering, "It is important to recognize that what we are doing here in Hong Kong is a hallmark of the School. We bring together important people to work on important problems. This is an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Jamaica, and Zimbabwe. Some have worked in cities like Baghdad, Phnom Penh, Monrovia, Tokyo, and Madrid. But none of the students in our group has been to Santa Ana del Valle, a village of just under 2,000 inhabitants, where rug weaving... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
good work they have done, many still find themselves in a precarious situation with weak returns on invested capital. José Alvarez: There are a few other things that make this an inflection point. One is the fact that technological... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
position. In all this focus on work, however, we sometimes overlook the importance of gender equity at home. My wife Monica and I have managed two full-time fulfilling careers because we have also strived for equity at home. Monica works... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Ebrahim is delineating a framework that takes into account the inherent uncertainty and complexity of measuring results in the social sector. EBRAHIM: The hard work of measuring impact becomes easier "Performance measurement in nonprofits... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
trust. Why is One Report important now? "The capital markets and our planet have simultaneously reached a fork in the road. One path continues the status quo. The other and new path is a commitment to a better society, stronger financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
during my time at HBS here, I started two organizations. Essentially the theme is, let’s take as many shots on goal as possible. Let’s get capital from as many places as possible to take those shots on goal. And so I started both a... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
Goldman Sachs: Making an Imprint in Impact Investing Goldman Sachs acquired Imprint Capital Advisors, a small firm that specialized in advising clients on environmental/social/governance (ESG) and impact investments. The founders sold... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
Working PapersAn Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s Author:Diego A. Comin No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-065.pdf (When) Are Religious People Nicer?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
includes a dozen years at General Foods, “our strengths were highly flexible assets and a deeply skilled workforce. Our niche clearly was in products where skilled cheese making was more important than capital investment for high... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
fine, but many of them also haven’t studied the region. When I look at some of the articles being published by major news outlets, you can tell they didn’t have an editor who really understood the issues. We’re creating the human capital... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
initiatives more closely to specific objectives: preventing misconduct, detecting it, or aligning policies with laws and regulations. Then, using careful model design and some creativity, firms can develop better metrics to measure what’s View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
possible alliances and partnerships); manufacturers (for manufacturing set-top boxes); non-U.S. licensees; and wholesale and retail distributors (for sales). With his promising venture running on fumes, Perlman's next obvious negotiation might have been with venture... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius