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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership Transitions 2008 Bankruptcy... View Details

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Ted Obi

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I halted my medical school journey because I was curious about the business of medicine and passionate about making a broader impact in the health care and life sciences industry.... View Details

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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About - Business History

rhythm of history when the cake of custom must be broke, when that disruptive, innovating energy is socially advantageous and must be given freer opportunity.” The impact of historical perspective—innovative, disruptive, secular—continues... View Details

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

interrelationships between three distinct parties: payers, providers, and consumers. Each group has its own perspective accompanied by a set of unique incentives, which complicate the adoption of a value-based health care system. To View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2022
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Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

classroom directly impacts not only how students learn, but how they see themselves. With only two years to soak in these cases as an MBA student, academic institutions have a short-but-critical time to prepare women for a world where... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

transfers—giving people cash via mobile money—to combat poverty wo... Transforming Talent at Teach For Taiwan By: Juan Alcácer and Chi Kuan January 2025 | Faculty Research The Teach For Taiwan (TFT) case follows founder Anting Liu as she... View Details

22 Feb 2018
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The New History of American Capitalism

credit—as the path to the American dream. Other writing identifies as transformative a radical redesign of money and finance that, during the Enlightenment, institutionalized the self-interested activity of investors as the compass for... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

21 May 2024
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A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

that address all aspects of the climate crisis. Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard - Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab The mission of the lab is to advance our understanding of how digital View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. ) He also examines policies on innovation and how they impact firm strategies. (That research is discussed in the books Innovation and Its Discontents , The Comingled Code , and the Architecture of... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

introduction of the leverage ratio for the European banks had a large impact on exposed bonds’ liquidity. Moreover, based on these ties, bond mutual fund panic following the 2020 pandemic outbreak affected substantially more mutual funds... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Complements from Substitutes Featured Exercises Create a customer journey map to discover complementary products and services 5 hrs Module 3 Competing with Network Effects Explore the three types of network effects, their impact on WTP,... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

accountability within the company to try to transform it so that its people would align and come together as a team, holding themselves responsible to deliver results and committed to the long-term future. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2010
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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

efforts but does not have much of an impact on their product development and other upstream activities. Level 3: The move from level 2 to level 3 is a major shift in both mindset and actions. The focus here migrates from selling products... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School