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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets
indicate about the respective market environments? How did business leaders in India, Chile and the Gulf respond to the liberalization of regulation in their respective countries? What challenges did liberalization present, and what opportunities did it provide? Why... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
into the fabric of normal, ongoing organization financial management (it) buys time to figure out what is happening and what it means to the organization.” Jacob Navon suggested, “Perhaps corporate thinking going forward will shift to emphasize resiliency versus cost... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
candidates to become major producers. They were consequently well positioned to diversify into production. A third determinant was the further expansion of imperial frontiers. In Asia, British political influence was extended over the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
management and digital marketing tools for entertainment venues and sports teams (largely unused during the pandemic), switched to targeting small- and medium-sized traditional businesses struggling to survive. Fourth Quadrant: Firms View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
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Events - Business History
and Diversified Business Groups: Comparisons across Developed Countries Ben Schneider, MIT Oct 30 30 Oct 2017 Business History Seminar Decoding the Balance Sheet: Material Objects, Symbolic Capital, and the Liquidation of the League of... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
came to serve as a major source of short-term financing. In 1958, the investment house launched the One William Street Fund, a mutual fund of diversified holdings funded by shareholders. Expanding their global reach in the 1960s, Lehman... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
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The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership
My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
However, there was substantial variation among academic departments. That finding suggests that there was not yet a systematic effort to diversify case protagonists. With that insight in mind, we delved into faculty characteristics. Were... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
promoted women and people of color. The diversifying effect was not as pronounced in mergers that involved companies from different industries. "The disruption allows these patterns to be changed for the better." As part of his study,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
grow as a person and a leader. I wanted to develop a new skill set and garner new insights to make me a more effective and diversified instructor for the cadets I will teach at USMA. What do you think helped you stand out during the... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
making investments in redundancy. Canon is considering a move to diversify its production base by expanding its under-construction Hita factory in Kyushu in southern Japan, and increasing production lines at its two factories in China's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
and investment firm, Fung considered the role crypto would play in a diversified portfolio. Her research introduced her to the underlying blockchain technology, and the revelation that led her to launch Co:Create: that these tools could... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
our growth strategy to diversify the business portfolio. One of my key responsibilities is to ensure that everything we do has a well-documented system and process. A day at work could involve any or all of the activities I mentioned... View Details
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Beth Clark | About
University, and a BA from the University of Massachusetts. She speaks regularly on topics including digital transformation, organizational change management, and diversifying the IT profession, and has published on women in IT and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
diversifying their workforces, more firms are scrutinizing the results of conventional algorithms on recruiting websites. But do fair rankings actually weed out gender bias and allow more women to rise to the top of talent searches?... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Banking By: Nicola Gennaioli & Robert W. Vishny JUN 2011 The rise and extent of shadow banking – the origination and acquisition of loans by financial intermediaries, their assembly into diversified pools, and the financing of these pools... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
business schools. It was only later that the managerial diseconomies of widely diversified businesses became evident. Hartog and Woodroofe were organizational modernizers who addressed the consequences of diversification. They drove... View Details