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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
and cord-blood stem cells for the treatment of some cancers, genetic disorders, and certain immune deficiencies. (Cord blood contains stem cells; individuals can bank their own until they, or close blood relatives, tap it for their own... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
microfinance into an industry. The distinction is important, he argues. While foundations, governments, and NGOs all play significant roles in pioneering social-good organizations, such funding can never equal the dimensions of the challenge. When View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
and to avoid the larger economies of Spain and Italy becoming involved. The European financial system became strained. Banks were found to be undercapitalized and began to ration credit to the economy. The European Central View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of Bancaja's new strategy. Bancaja, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
when compared to defense and healthcare expenditures, not to mention the costs incurred recently rescuing failing banks and automakers, among others. But the picture changes when we consider the long-run consequences of policies that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54301 On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks By: Alfaro, Laura, Manuel García-Santana, and Enrique Moral-Benito Abstract—We consider the real effects of bank lending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
issues, dynamic pricing; and automated vehicles. Improving mass transit systems that connect to other forms of transportation. Making the US easier for foreign visitors to enter. An infrastructure bank to make targeted strategic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
to figure out how to operationalize these insights. We have developed two credit products with Sanghamithra that are based on these ideas, and we’ve just deployed the first few dozen of each of them. The first is a graduation loan. For many borrowers, it’s hard to get... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
investment bank Bpifrance’s incubator space “Le Hub,” where the three teams pitched their concepts before a panel of 11 HBS alumni judges and a crowd of more than 100 alumni, family and friends. In the end, Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016)... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
were Robert Ryan (MBA '70) and Paula Banks (154th AMP) for professional achievement, the Reverend Jonathan Weaver (MBA '75) for civic commitment, and Lillian Lincoln (MBA '69) for service to the community. Presented jointly by the AASU... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
and Fundbox, which specialize in loans to small businesses, are also considering ways to support the sector. Renegotiate terms of contracts and debt. Owners should ask landlords for more time to pay their rent, for example. They should also ask View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
prompted a new research paper that starts to investigate ways to make these patents less volatile and more efficient—and makes the case for increased government involvement. "Standards are ubiquitous and necessary," says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
how many hectares each Akhara required. (The Juna Akhara, the biggest, has four separate quadrants.) They had to figure out how to provide on the order of 30 MVa of power to 22,000 temporary poles (provided by a bank of diesel generators... View Details
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
work." He would address the issue by: (1) (greeting) "all immigrants with a social security card" (implying payment of taxes, Medicare, etc.) and (2) requiring employers to "pay immigrants with check or automatic bank... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
the Goldsmith Fellowship, I hope contribute to a community of practitioners dedicated to innovating and scaling social change interventions,” he said. Danno Lemu. A joint degree student at HBS and HKS, Danno’s career has spanned housing and community development. At... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos feature South African business leaders in banking (Cas Coovadia), retail (Shirley Zinn), food (Robbie Brozin),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
of doing any business with you? My bank adviser can guarantee higher returns than you can.” Such was the investment climate in India during the spring of 2007 as Dhruv Agarwala and Kartik Varma (both MBA ’02) attempted to get their... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Cindy Horowitz
Cindy (HBS ’81) brings 20 years of broad management experience to coaching students interested in general management, finance, operations and other corporate roles. She helps students understand the various roles open to them and the career paths to advancement in... View Details
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administrative director of the MBA program, who had died the month before. Clifford E. Darden, MBA 1969, DBA 1982 Clifford E. Darden developed the organizational strategy of AASU and became its first chair. "We couldn't just sit on the View Details