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01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

South Africa. He noted that his country's aim is to have a stable, democratic government like those found in the United States and Europe, but he presented the tradeoffs that must be made before such a goal can be achieved. For instance,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

February 2011
Teaching Note

Citigroup's Exchange Offer (TN)

By: Robin Greenwood

Teaching Note for 210009. View Details

Keywords: Equity; Government and Politics; Stocks; Price; Capital; Banks and Banking; Performance Evaluation; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital Markets; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States

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23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

variety of new goods and services being brought to market. Most consumers in the 1980s had not even heard of e-mail or cappuccinos. Yet in less than a decade, millions of people not only became familiar with these and other novel... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

Similarly, you might think about applying knowledge from one area to another. For example, what could you learn from the service at Disney World to improve a retail bank’s operations? Second, ask questions... View Details

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

economy and have no safety net and virtually no hope of moving upward." "Globalization has helped emerging economies distribute their products and services around the world but there's been no systematic way to link the extra... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the blatant failures of corporate View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2012
News

The Tender Taxman

Keywords: Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

government departments, but also between two presidential administrations. It seems that there were also elements of political bias at work there. Yes, but to shine the spotlight on the Democrats’ failings for a minute, back in the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Services; Educational Services

March 2008
Article

Market Reactions to Export Subsidies

By: M. A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

This paper analyzes the economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; Development Economics; Financial Markets; Profit; Taxation; Volume; Value Creation; Market Design; Business Subsidiaries; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; North and Central America

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For Guests | Commencement 2025

and the required form for requesting children on stage (login required) on myHBS . Dining All retail dining locations on campus will be open. Dress Code May weather in Boston can be variable (hot and humid, cool, or raining), so use your... View Details

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

Saigal (MBA 2014), founder and CEO of Kudos, a sustainable diaper company, and Sarina Siddhanti Garg (MBA 2015), founder of the South Asian formal clothing retailer Riya Collective. The women shared their startup journeys with guest... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

Proceedings Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy By: Glaeser, Edward, Andrew Hillis, Scott Kominers, and Michael Luca Abstract—The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

keeping these turbines running. We ended our tour with a visit onboard the Sea Challenger, a wind turbine service vessel. This massive ship has four columns installed at its corners that can be lowered into the sea floor to lift the ship... View Details

01 Jan 2002
News

Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

Curriculum. "The private sector is increasingly welcome in fields that were long considered the provenance of government and social service organizations, and that is exciting news for the next generation of... View Details

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures emanating from View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price. Their products originated from a wild resource under government regulations which limited the size of the catch by both the industry and Clearwater. In recent years,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

JPMorganChase: Leadership in the Age of GenAI

By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Karim R. Lakhani and David Lane

This case study examines JPMorgan Chase's (JPMC) journey in adopting and implementing Generative AI (GenAI) following the release of ChatGPT. It outlines JPMC's initial cautious approach focused on data security, followed by strategic investments in internal platforms... View Details