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01 Mar 2012
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Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

October 1998 (Revised April 2001)
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Preview Travel (B)

By: William A. Sahlman and Nicole Tempest

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Initial Public Offering; Internet and the Web; Business Plan; Capital; Financial Strategy; Travel Industry; United States

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07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

to return to their countries of origin....” Ben commented that “We have a need for skilled and unskilled labor here (in the U.S.) and we value inclusion and integration... (But) I think our government shouldn’t copy any other country’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

Business Speaks English: Why You Need a Language Strategy Now Author:Tsedal Neeley Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 5 (May 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

the premia that might be paid by end-users. Second, of course, looking at prices alone is insufficient to look at the relative viability of globally standardized vs. locally customized products. It's obvious that we need to look at costs... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

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Preqin reports | Baker Library

Preqin Private Capital Fund Terms Advisors Report Preqin Private Capital Compensation and Employment Review Report Investor Outlooks Additional Sector Reports, Regional Performance Updates, Blogs, etc. Links... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

second edition, The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy, delivers a groundbreaking examination of one of the most consequential crises in financial history. Deftly weaving historical evidence,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a principal and one of the founders of Long Term Capital Management, L.P., a financial technology and proprietary trading firm. He is the... View Details

March 2015 (Revised May 2018)
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JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool

By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly

By the spring of 2014, the pilot had come to an end for JPMorgan Chase's ReEntry Program, a program designed for women coming back to the workforce after a period of time away. Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of Asset Management, and her team had to evaluate whether or not... View Details

Keywords: Women; Training; Leadership; Motherhood; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Diversity; Gender; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Programs; Financial Services Industry; United States

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01 Oct 1999
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A Message from Dean Clark

promising distance learning initiative that will enrich the prematriculation process for incoming students. In Executive Education, the Program for Global Leadership now includes distance learning modules on global financial markets and... View Details

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

Editor's note: In its March issue, Harvard Business Review contributes a special section, "Reinventing America: Why the World Needs the US to Bounce Back." We reprint here the introduction written by Harvard Business School Dean Nitin... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

01 Sep 2017
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Opening Doors

MBA 1992) recently contributed $12 million to support fellowships at HBS, the largest single gift for financial aid the School has ever received, and also donated $500,000 to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. Their generous gift... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel people have a high sensitivity to... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

featuring fascinating historical detail about each route, Seven Climbs is a compelling account of Sherwood’s efforts to answer a much-debated question: Which are the world’s greatest climbs? Faculty Books Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking... View Details

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

topic of the conference could not have been better, and the response by both the presenters and the audience far exceeded expectations. “We needed something positive,” says Kovacs, an angel investor and former CEO and cofounder of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Merit-Based Admissions, Need-Based Aid | MBA

tuition scholarships to students with the greatest financial need and will offer new scholarships to more students from middle income backgrounds. How Need is Determined The... View Details

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