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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building schools to create new opportunities
Joe Schell (MBA 1973), a former investment banker, talks about his leadership role in education for several not-for-profit boards. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
draw people in, using more social media, employing jargon-free language, and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our registration process to the questions we ask,” says Giusti. Better Data Crunching The View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
chief scientific officer, in particular — aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," Higgins explains. "It's these executives' professional ties and company connections, their access to information and resources... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
Canadian culture, all Canadian measurements are in hockey rink units, or HRUs.) Social media activity was intense, and consumers even organized Double Down "Bro Downs" where men competed to see who could guzzle the most Double... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
of the job? “The best parts have been the relationships—with patients, and with peers. As residents we rotate onto different services each month, but the bonds that we form with our patients are real, and the sense of investment in their... View Details
- Fall 2020
- Article
Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
Henderson, Rebecca. "Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual & the End of the World as We Know It." Special Issue on Witnessing Climate Change. Daedalus 149, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 118–124.
- 21 Aug 2019
- News
Analyzing Homelessness
If business leaders want to solve societal problems, Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) suggests, “Find an issue that inspires you. Your impact will compound from there.” For Shumway, that issue is homelessness. Shumway is founder and chairman of Cicero Group, a data-driven,... View Details
- 2007
- Book
Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Carbon Strategies describes specific steps any business can take to implement sound, practical, climate-related corporate policies. Based on Andrew J. Hoffman’s widely praised report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and significantly revised in light of... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J. Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint. University of Michigan Press, 2007. (Korean Edition: 십년 후 기업의 순위를 뒤바꿀 탄소전략, Tendedero, 2009.)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Every company needs a strategy—a forward-looking plan for the future—and every company needs to keep that bottom line growing through sales. But all too often, the folks devising the grand plan and the folks sealing the deals are not on the same page. In his new book,... View Details
- January–February 2018
- Article
The New CEO Activists
By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Though corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a long time now, in recent years a dramatic new trend has emerged in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Rights; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Sustainability; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Social Issues; Communication Intention and Meaning; United States
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "The New CEO Activists." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 78–89. (Winner of the 2019 HBR Warren Bennis Prize as best 2018 HBR article on leadership. Featured in the HBR Ideacast podcast and an HBR Webinar.)
- 01 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program
education at Harvard Business School. First, I can now speak the language of finance, marketing, or strategy. I can sit and have a conversation with someone from private equity, investment banking, or venture capital. Those areas are not... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of leverage in affecting the likelihood and extent of systemic financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
investment bank in the world. Ellis, a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for over thirty years, explains how it rose to leadership in the United States and abroad, made many partners great fortunes, and became a leader in IPOs, M&A,... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
his greeting: "A general manager has a social responsibility that requires a professional response. I hope that your two years at the Harvard Business School will enable you to contribute an effective View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- Article
Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches
By: Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent... View Details
Keywords: Peer Firm; EDGAR Search Traffic; Revealed Preference; Co-search; Industry Classification; Perception; Internet and the Web; Investment
Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches." Journal of Financial Economics 116, no. 2 (May 2015): 410–431.
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pharma Suits a Farm Gal
lessons. Whether rotating crops, breeding animals, or investing in equipment, “You spend a good deal of your time trying to plan forward in terms of timing and scheduling,” said Graham, who added that living on a farm “provides great... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
people bold enough to suggest that investing billions to clean it up was a good idea. My whole worldview changed. I've been passionate about water resources and ocean issues ever since." Merkl has never strayed from that passion, but... View Details