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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
High on every agenda as well, of course, is the use and impact of technology, and that was the focus of a Global Alumni Conference session hosted by HBS professor Richard Nolan. Titled "Technology and the Future of the Financial... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
home you have access to even more technology than in the office. It’s important to set up your work space so that you have access to the technology you need, and not the technology that will distract you. Fong encourages her team to avoid multitasking and to View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
stigmatization and dysfunctional finger-pointing being the result." Stress Or Mental Illness? A culture of 3 a.m. emails and competition in the conference rooms can contribute to workplace stress. A 2013 survey by the American Psychiatric... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
incorporating their qualitative and quantitative measures in central organizational planning, decision making, and accountability mechanisms. We call the experts that achieve such positions of influence "frame-makers." In the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Jorge Redmond, CEO of Chocolates El Rey, called a meeting with senior management to discuss the company's growth strategy. A relatively small firm with sales of around $14 million, El Rey produced top quality chocolate made with single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
virtually. The Women in Investing Summit and the Investment Club Conference are also effective ways to get in front of students and participate in the student conversation around investing. With regard to timing for Investment Management... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
venture capital investor Jacqueline Morby called him soon thereafter. She and husband Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with Boston philanthropists Jerome and... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
inside the booth owned by tech startup Barared to do everything from place phone calls to pay bills, deposit money, and buy minutes for their mobile phones. It’s a convenience for her customers, Reyes says: Chimalhuacán has only two bank... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
read a lot. One of them is called The Midnight Library, and it's by Matt Haig. I'm 61, and it's really a book about all the paths your life could have taken and all the different ways it could have happened in the guise of a female... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
new apps and other products, offering feedback to help entrepreneurs refine their ideas. However, there’s a caveat to this feedback: 90 percent of users on Product Hunt are men, according to a recent working paper by a trio of Harvard Business School researchers View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Free Trade Agreement, went about securing buy-in: "News might arrive that a representative who had been leaning toward yes had come out as a no…. When he heard the bad news, [Daley went into action].… 'Can we find the guy who can deliver the guy? We have... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
year showed that the number of women and African-Americans saw little to no change from the year before. The numbers were so bleak that in August 2015, President Obama called on the industry to try harder. “Trying harder, to some, means... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
competing incentives in building the metaverse, our view is that the metaverse can still succeed,” they write, “but it might call for a shift in mindset and an openness to learning from seemingly distant domains of knowledge.” Along those... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
the clubs’ conferences. Both the planning process and the conference itself were instrumental in getting exposure to exciting businesses, innovative ideas, and brilliant people who became part of my network. During my second semester I... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
annual Social Enterprise Conference that draws speakers from across the social sector. Beyond the experience themselves, these events create the opportunity to build a network of diverse peers who share a common interest in education but... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
Four European entrepreneurs joined HBS Professors Howard Stevenson and Walter Kuemmerle to explore these questions in the Global Alumni Conference breakout session "Entrepreneurship in Europe." Stevenson and Kuemmerle set the... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
2003 Global Leadership Forum was scheduled to take place in Shanghai last June. Unfortunately, the SARS outbreak caused us to postpone the conference to June 2004. Thanks to the strong leadership of Bob Shaw (MBA ’84), his Global... View Details
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Futures and Call Spreads: An Arbitrage Approach." Journal of Fixed Income 4, no. 4 (March 1995): 46-57. Dixit, Avinash K., and Robert S. Pindyck. Investment Under Uncertainty . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Föllmer,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
his fellow HBS alumni on the association’s board of directors. “We started with a virtual update in late February” says fellow board member Shannon Lundgren (MBA 1994). “The inspiration came from conversations with David during a couple of board View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
mature industries, such as Swiss watchmakers and pencil makers, that have been able to reinvent themselves in the wake of radical technological change. He calls this phenomenon “technology reemergence.” Over the past eight years, he has... View Details