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Continuing Education - Business & Environment

gathered for the Agribusiness Seminar at Harvard Business School (HBS) to deepen their understanding of the food and agriculture landscape, exchange perspectives, strengthen their networks, and cultivate ideas to shape this vital industry. In our upcoming seminar, you... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

shepherding them into boarding school and monitoring their development through daily calls and weekend visits. “That was a tough time, but my Harvard ‘family’ made it bearable,” she says. That family included her roommates, her Ec 10 tutor Doug Elmendorf—now dean of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

talent. Lastly, we will leverage the power of the Adelante Conference, our annual Latinx professional conference that brings together current and future Latino leaders. This will be hosted on-campus on February 6th, save the date! Meet... View Details

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

they assess future risks in good times? Are there underlying principles that help an outside observer recognize potential errors in beliefs? How do markets learn? Size and Structure of the Financial Sector What explains the growth of... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

indirectly . . . [which] can be controlled by appropriate legislation.” [11] Lehman Brothers also focused on the oil industry, helping to finance TransCanada Pipelines Ltd., Penzoil Company, Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company, and Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

29 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 29

future problems and opportunities for innovation. The third is a tendency to fail to probe the root causes of success. Whereas post-mortems after failure are becoming a norm in many organizations, such soul searching rarely occurs after... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

employees to the fullest extent permitted by law. In other words, as time passes, leading companies can worry less and less about trade secret theft in the traditional sense, and they have a path forward regardless of the future of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

25 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

future leaders. We are committed to furthering gender equity at HBS and beyond. We have an incredible list of sponsors who, through their funding and support, help us deliver extensive programming for all members. Some of the highlights... View Details

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

marketers, says HBS professor John Quelch. Credit: Gage Skidmore Show the past as prologue. Offering consumers the adventure of voting for an uncertain future never works with the majority, especially if your brand is new to the game.... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. They need to see how in a moment of great trial all of Shackleton's possibility could come forward to affect his future and that of others. But in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2023
News

Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

critique, allowed me to pull together a versatile PM toolkit to attack all my future PM needs. There are few places in the world where you are truly given the opportunity to reshape your life and build a solid structure for View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

They’ll open doors to a future career opportunity, introduce you to your significant other, or even help you get that hard-to-find restaurant reservation (this happened to me!). The people are what make this place truly one of a kind, and... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/SimonSkafar View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects By: Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King, and Auden Schendler Abstract— This working paper examines key barriers to business sustainability discussed at a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Mar 2009
Working Paper Summaries

CPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Hoan Soo Lee

February 2024
Case

Tabby: Winning Consumers' Digital Wallets

By: Eva Ascarza and Fares Khrais

Hosam Arab (MBA 2009), cofounder and CEO of Tabby, a Saudi-based fintech startup, raised its Series D funding round in October 2023, four years after its inception, valuing it as a regional unicorn. Tabby's core product, a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) service, allowed... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Risk Management; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Saudi Arabia

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