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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
degree to which there was scientific uncertainty around this. And the way in which we needed to address climate change as a major risk factor for businesses, for markets, and for society as a whole. That... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
continues, “without a really clear idea of what I was going to do.” He knew that research and integration with more well-established areas — through cases on entrepreneurship across a variety of disciplines and businesses — would be key View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
death in a quantity equivalent to two grains of salt, has become a major factor contributing to the spike in overdoses. Last year, recognizing the fast-moving and shapeshifting nature of these and other alarming developments, Langford... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
the job. Often claimed, seldom true, “platform” companies are extremely rare. Move faster when you have conviction—other investors are right behind you. The best investors “pay up” and invest at the next opportunity. Valuation matters, but other View Details
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million
Thain Gioia and her cofounder realizing there were serious deficits in the information offered during their pregnancies. “Personally, my daughter was born with a cleft lip—though I had no risk factors or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Michael and I think about that question,” says Gordon, adding that with the privileges they’ve had, if they don’t take risks in life, they’re wasting it. So, yeah, maybe her parents think she’s a little bit nuts for doing this, she says.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
advanced capabilities, such as detection and response tools, in areas with the most sensitive data or the most risk to the organization’s mission. Once you’ve identified risk and placed controls in line with... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
lowers the risk of infestation, thereby reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides. Chemicals that are required are delivered in water that circulates and is recycled. The system also minimizes variation in growing conditions, thus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks and rewards of approaching an area like Dharavi with a new model in mind: slums as lucrative... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
economies and cultures. Understanding this phenomenon of design evolution, the authors write, "is crucial to comprehending the opportunities and the risks that change creates." The authors describe their book as an examination of "the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
significant factor in my decision to return after graduation,” she says. As a student, Ballou-Aares worked in Liberia with the International Rescue Committee (Bulletin, December 2000) and conducted a field research project on delivering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Stevenson, conference chair and chair of the School's Entrepreneurial Management unit, will describe the key insights HBS has developed in fifty years of teaching entrepreneurship; Professor Teresa M. Amabile will report on her findings from an ongoing study of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
the point of the book was to explain where this extraordinary system came from and to explain it component by component so that readers could understand the financial system as the product of history, and as one of the key factors in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
committed—his victims lost almost $10 billion in the failed exchange—makes even the crimes of Bernie Madoff pale in comparison, says Professor Eugene Soltes. His work focuses on corporate integrity and risk management; he’s also the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
terrorism. Bremer, who has also worked as a special or executive assistant to six secretaries of state, entered the private sector in 1989, becoming managing director of Kissinger Associates, a strategic consulting firm. In 2000, he moved to Marsh & McLennan to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details