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- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
A freak accident at age 21 left Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) a quadriplegic. It was a moment that led him, ultimately, to cast off from a career in wealth management at Goldman Sachs to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
different. State-owned corporations in BRIC countries have managed to reform their corporate governance and become relatively efficient. Think about oil and banking: Among the 10 or 20 largest companies in the world, there are 8 or so... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Both the managers and the students had to consider areas of potential risk for LEGO in Asia, including: Uncertainty of market growth forecasts. LEGO senior director John Kelley argues in the case that to... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase and Sohel Karim (HBS DBA '88),... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action.... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
outcome. In addition, war transformed the capital markets. The extraordinary results of wartime technology "prepared many individual investors and institutional fund managers to take greater risks in... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
Efimova: Inspiring a love of the arts in young children. Photo courtesy Aleksandra Ekimova Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, Aleksandra Efimova (OPM 39, 2010) attended the renowned Art School at the Hermitage State Art Museum and received training in classical... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
fact," says Davis, "more than two-thirds of all business enterprises worldwide are owned or managed by families, and 30 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are family owned or controlled." In Generation to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
and of another serious setback for further privatization of pensions in America.” When All Else Fails by David A. Moss (Harvard University Press) Although Associate Professor David Moss completed his draft of When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
‘contemplating’ a problem and confronting and resolving it.” As the driving force in McArthurGlen’s transformation from an entrepreneurial enterprise to a multinational real-estate development and management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
This consciousness-raising book asks business students, who are usually risk-averse, to look at risk in a new way. It argues that choices they think are “safe” (lucrative jobs taken only for financial gain, service to others deferred... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
is still enabling thousands of different firms to survive. Value Sharing And Risk Management How can a niche player influence the way that value is shared in an ecosystem? How can it protect itself against... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 1998
- Chapter
Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty
By: J. H. Hammond, Marshall L. Fisher, Walter Obermeyer and A. Raman
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Cost Management; Demand and Consumers; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty
Hammond, J. H., Marshall L. Fisher, Walter Obermeyer, and A. Raman. "Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty." In Global Supply Chain and Technology Management. Vol. 1, edited by Hau Lee and Shu Ming Ng, 76–90. POMS Series in Technology and Operations Management. Miami: Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 1998.
- April 1995
- Case
Phelps Dodge Corporation
By: W. Carl Kester and Kendall Backstrand
A prolonged decline in copper prices prompts Phelps Dodge, one of the world's largest independent copper companies, to consider corporate diversification as a means of protecting itself from copper price volatility. View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Price; Volatility; Risk Management; Mining Industry; Arizona; United States
Kester, W. Carl, and Kendall Backstrand. "Phelps Dodge Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 295-132, April 1995.
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
all. But Branson, whose career began in the late 1960s when he launched a student magazine and then a record company, told the audience that his enterprises all fit the company's brand. He defined the Virgin brand as representing service... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
"I wanted to work in international development," says Ballou, whose fellowship through the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise supplemented her summer income. "I also had a wonderful opportunity at the World Bank, but the IRC gave me a... View Details