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  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

powered by advanced ML algorithms embedded with a fintech solution. Hive Health Camille Ang (MBA/MPA-ID 2022) Jiawen Tang (MBA 2023/MPA-ID 2021) Business Track Co-Winner A B2B2C digital health insurer providing simplified, affordable, &... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Know to Understand the Supply Chain , The Wall Street Journal, 2022. In Uncertain Times, Big Companies Need to Take Care of Their Suppliers , Harvard Business Review, 2022. Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

expertise, and then gathering them in the quest for a common goal—the way Torsten Thiele, a European banker, helped get insurance companies together with NGOs to look at projects to improve the health of the oceans, which would certainly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

them," says Goh. Making The Stress-health Connection Unlike in Europe, little or no data exists in the US that correlates exposure to workplace stress with health outcomes or health care costs. Goh tackles that gap in a new working... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

Presenting new financial risks , disclosure requirements , and insurance considerations Posing operating challenges for businesses and their supply chains As climate change continues, businesses,... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

Among them is Coca Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca Cola bottling company in Mexico and Latin America. They have been bootstrapping the company’s development, leveraging company excitement to gain design input. “Water can translate to a series of risks, operational View Details
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-071.pdf Short-Termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk Authors:Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts, we measure the time horizon that senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

of their risk level, creating more loyal customers for the longer term. The Knot Worldwide is providing financial assistance to its vendors (like caterers, flower companies, and apparel brands) to help them get through hard times. Netflix... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Western firms sought access to resources, and they faced little political risk due to Western imperialism. The main risks were logistical due to infrastructure and technological inadequacies. During the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Media

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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

the sale of insurance products). Moreover, the use of CLV information did not have a negative impact on pricing, as some of the literature suggests, nor on default risk, indicating that managers increased sales to more profitable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

and various roads to success. Assessing Your Fit Due to the risk involved in choosing the wrong CEO, companies are placing increased emphasis on assessment as part of the search, and this process is equally important for candidates.... View Details
  • March 2024
  • Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Internal Risk Pressures Designing and Enforcing Internal Controls Building Business Conduct Boundaries Featured Exercises Identify internal risk pressures using the Risk View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves" with Annette Vissing-Jorgensen. Victoria Ivashina : Received the 2019 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2019 European Finance Association (EFA) Best... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

is a good example of political risk exposure that you could not have foreseen 12 months ago.” What can the Harley-Davidson case teach us about managing in a politicized environment? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto
  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

finishing work on a case study about Airbnb, where anyone can offer a room in their house or an apartment for short-term rentals. "Compared to restaurant choice, people are taking a big risk when deciding to rent their apartment to a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne