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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
a mountain of cash — 40 to 50 percent of Baupost’s $14 billion–plus in assets — for several years, the firm’s recent investments have cut its cash stash in half. Distress selling, it seems, breeds the kind... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
and experience -- without closing the door on the for-profit world. When fully established, The Bridge Group will serve a roster of twenty to thirty nonprofit clients a year for fees that are a fraction of those View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
leader to shoulder blame rather than search for excuses. Everything that happens is ultimately the leader’s responsibility anyway, and promptly taking ownership of a difficult situation means that you can lead your team out of it that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
issues like gender, race, and religion, we are really talking about how we get along with others and how we create a world that is safe for difference." Slifka is working hard to create such a world. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
than 1,500 jobs and became a movement the locals nicknamed ramase lajan (“picking up money” in Haitian Creole), as they came to see plastic as a resource instead of garbage. Not surprisingly, Goodwin learned that demand from brands and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Arctic. There is a major anthracite coal reserve in northern Alaska, and if we’re going to burn coal anywhere in the world, that’s some of the best to use. Major development exploration is going on there now. Amid all this demand View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations than in the past. The authors present a broad framework suited to such complexity and identify four critical activities for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
allocates money to researchers whose proposals are reviewed by a panel of scientists knowledgeable in the field. A typical grant proposal is 25 single-spaced pages and takes months to prepare. The NIH responds in approximately nine months. Because the View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
and electric vehicles, and ride sharing. They also spoke in favor of smart agriculture and plant-heavy diets. Beef consumption is especially challenging, they said, as demand for protein to feed the world’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
lives of their men and women. In other words, the IDF is a factory for developing potential business leaders, with many of the kinds of leadership skills underscored at HBS. And those skills are much in View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
company more sharply on areas where its innovative capacity remained distinctive. Blackberry understands the demands of security conscious corporate customers better than most, and their software for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
that allow for unlimited shelf space and access to whatever products we want, whenever we want them—and if technologies make it cheaper to produce these goods—then demand will shift to the tail of the View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
multiple centers for a broader exploration of a topic. For example, this past year, the centers coordinated more than 50 interviews in 10 countries to help Professor Rafaella Sadun examine how resilient... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
for investing are going to asset managers and portfolio companies that are cognizant of their broader societal impact. April White: There are three topics covered in the pledge: biased policing, ballot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
portable explosive detection equipment has kept them out of harm’s way. Steering Off the Safe Road For a man who just three years ago was at the top of his game in the insurance business, the question... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
Janeiro Business Professor Tania Casado was already the recipient of numerous awards for her teaching at the Faculdade de Economia (FEA), the University of São Paulo's prestigious business school. Like any good professor, however, Casado... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
to be one of the first market segments to come back in a big way, and there’s already a big demand for Key West—in fact, it has higher room rates on average than New York City. You sound pretty optimistic... View Details