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17 Apr 2019
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Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

institutional investors to fill the funding needs.” Since 2014, Coady has worked with groups like Credit Suisse to convene an invitation-only conference of investors to identify investable, repeatable, scalable and, therefore,... View Details

11 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

Yet this literature has had much more to say about international trade and institutional structures than about entrepreneurship and MNEs. Indeed, the story of the creation of the nineteenth-century global economy has been written about... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones

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Casey Gerald

Brothers in the summers of 2007 and 2008, he got an inside view of the firm’s dramatic collapse. “It’s the story of my generation,” Casey says. “No one thought an institution like that would come tumbling down. But we all saw how fragile... View Details

10 Jul 2020
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Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help

Keywords: by Amar Bhidé

July 2007
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Geographical Segmentation of U.S. Capital Markets

Demographic variation in savings behavior can be exploited to provide evidence on segmentation in US bank loan markets. Cities with a large fraction of seniors have higher volumes of bank deposits. Since many banks rely heavily on deposit financing, this affects local... View Details

Keywords: Age; Economy; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Local Range; United States

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Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (B)

By: W. Earl Sasser and Josep Valor

Acting on his vision to make the World Bank a knowledge institution, bank President Wolfensohn announces the creation of an Information and Knowledge Management Council and an Information Solutions Group, headed by a newly nominated CEO, Mohamed Muhsin. This case... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Knowledge Management; Management Teams; Information Management; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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Ferran Ayala

with my countrymen. I seek to foster and create the institutions that will allow people's hearts - rather than their class or skin color - to determine their true fate. From improving quality and access to education to helping small... View Details

02 Feb 2017
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Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute

institution in Ontario about two years ago; they said he could not live with other roommates. He was aggressive, he was violent. Within three months, he was off all the meds that he was on; he has a job working in the community; he has... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Noted & Quoted

“We simply can’t call it capitalism if the biggest financial institutions enjoy a guarantee from the taxpayer that if they go bust, or risk going bust, they’ll be bailed out. That has to change.” — Professor Niall Ferguson, responding to... View Details

25 Aug 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

nature of the relationship. With our approach, you are an important part of the economy—a customer—and this institution wants to sell you a product. You know that if you’re not happy, you can take your business somewhere else. You have... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes

employers and employees. "The growth of staffing agencies suggests that we may be witnessing a slow recasting of the economy's institutional matrix where people are emerging as bundles of skills, organizations as constellations of... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

10 Oct 2014
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Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

hosted “A Vision for the 21st Century” as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The halls of the Art Institute of Chicago were transformed into an elegant lounge for the evening’s reception, enabling hundreds of... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

The U.S. Army is one of the best training institutions in the world, says HBS professor Scott A. Snook, a retired Army colonel. How does the Army develop leaders? Snook discusses his new book, Making Sense of Officership: Developing a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Policy - Business & Environment

ice cap, a rise in sea levels, warming of the oceans ” Industry internal document 1968 American Petroleum Institute [10] 1970s - 1980s In a 1978 presentation to Exxon executives and scientists, James Black of Exxon’s Products Research... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution

business, organizational, financial, and institutional problems,” West recalls. Since Harvard University, with its medical school, teaching hospitals, and Nobel Prize winners, is perhaps the world’s leading View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Stock ownership: statistics

Where can I find data on institutional vs. individual ownership of equities in the U.S.? Institutional holding information going back to 1980 is available by using Thomson Reuters Ownership Databases in... View Details

Mar 2012
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Enriching the Ecosystem

To remain a leader in innovation, the United States needs the support of foundational institutions that help seed, grow, and renew enterprises. Historically, these institutions--such as universities, venture creators, labor markets, and... View Details

21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home

global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Nurturing students who can think outside of the box

Chen Weiming (MBA 1993) is reimagining the way China views education. As founder of Xing Wei College, a first-of-its-kind, privately run institution outside of Shanghai, Chen is at the forefront of a radical transformation of China’s... View Details

01 Aug 2002
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Dan Geffken (MBA '87)

bike ride that benefits the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. He raised some $71,000, much of it from fellow HBSers. Noted Geffken, “Brenda is doing great now. The whole family, including Molly, is delighted to be here.”... View Details

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