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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
the course. Learn about bringing this course to your organization . Learner Stories 94% improved knowledge to grow or start a business The People, Opportunity, Context, and Deal framework is now in the back of my mind. Also, I have... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
crucial skills that prepared me for the MBA experience: A structured and practical approach to problem solving The discipline I acquired to methodically think through problems has proved to be valuable. Breaking down complex problems... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
my course is about risk mitigation. I hope they will be able to answer the following question after a term in my course: How does one use all the tools learned at HBS to successfully structure deals and... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
enjoy and which would you prefer not to do yourself? What you delegate, how you structure your job, whether or not you are in the right job-all of this should flow from and be influenced by a realistic understanding of your likes and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
problems that afflict the business—for example, by cutting expenses, selling non-core assets, or making needed capital improvements—and put in place a new, less debt-heavy capital structure that the business can support going forward.... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
this at IBM for almost eight years,” she explained on CBS This Morning. “We’re a great proof point of this. Now, after working hard and adjusting our job requisitions, which is one of the structural barriers to address, we no longer... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
the country have different cost structures and regulatory requirements when it comes to waste reduction, diversion, and disposal,” he says. “It doesn’t make sense for us to build a $50 million recycling facility in a market where there’s... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
office may be a good time to dismantle silos and foster relationships across department, function, rank, and location. This is especially so at a time when so many people are dealing with similar practical challenges. Internal blogs,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
resulting in more consumers and market share, or both. And, for companies that provide these technologies mentioned above to other companies that consume products, they too must deal with the basic economics, utility, and acceptability.... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
savings, because few organizations seemed interested in savings by the poor. Credit was fairly well available in their communities, and payment services (such as check cashing, money orders, and debit cards), while costly, were also available. Savings was the "missing... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
entrepreneurs run structured experiments to validate ideas and refine business strategy. Participants work through real-world challenges faced by entrepreneurs across a variety of industries, and come away with tangible tools and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
heightened uncertainty? While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early report of these emerging approaches, over the past... View Details
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Harvard Business School
chairman and CEO of Capri Investment Group. He chairs the Global Management Board and is a member of the firm's investment committee. Since establishing Capri in 1992, he has overseen the firm's origination of approximately $10 billion in real estate equity, debt, and... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
nominal and real interest rates in the last four decades, and how their recent trends and their potential evolution in a world characterized by structural changes in the way economies are organized and in geopolitical tail risks might... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be underwhelmed, try comparing a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
poses no major obstacles to analysis. In fact, its size enables us to be more confident in our findings. Q: With the increased use of electronic communication, is there an impact on communication structures when we start to lose the human... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- April 2016 (Revised January 2018)
- Supplement
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
David L. Geffen
Four years before owning his record label outright, Geffen structured a deal with Warner Communications to provide distribution services and financial underwriting. Geffen was extremely adept at spotting and... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Jerry Yang
money in 1995, Yang and Filo launched the search engine, Yahoo! By including advertising on their site (one of the first to do so) and by structuring deals with Netscape Navigator and others, Yahoo has been... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics