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- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
and recovering from a crisis, increasing close rates, the efficiency of a sales model, and its segment focus are strategic issues, not only sales management tasks. Consider: when commerce resumes, what’s the impact on your business from... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Samuel L. Hayes, III (MBA '61, DBA '66), the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Emeritus, is a widely recognized authority on capital markets, Wall Street, and the corporate interface with the securities markets. He takes a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
developed countries—can be conducted more efficiently and effectively from an Indian research center. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708482 Radical Collaboration: IBM Microelectronics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
809-073 The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In the market turmoil of late 2008, Mark... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
knowledge of a market tends to make it more efficient and to intensify competition," Sprinkle noted. "This means that each of us had better start experimenting in this realm right now." At lunch the next day, Vincent H. Tobkin (MBA '75)... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- Web
From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
fiscal 2015. In addition to ongoing Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center and Klarman Hall construction, this budget reflects a second consecutive year of significantly increased capital investment in smaller renewal, upgrade, and energy View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
their jobs. Common sense suggests why this will lead to an inefficient public sector. Nationalization or reversal of planned privatizations of economic assets. I have not seen not even one credible academic study that suggests that state-owned enterprises are run more... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
student essays that highlight their reflections. The Heart of the Global Flower Industry The Netherlands, often known as the "Flower Capital of the World", is home to Royal FloraHolland (RFH), a remarkable institution that plays a crucial... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Professor of Business Administration. His interest in expanding the reach of this work drove the launch of the COVID-19 Business Impact Center, an online hub for the School’s intellectual capital related to the pandemic. Research is... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
they will be able to withdraw their funds at a later date—and at what exchange rate. This happened in Brazil in the early 1990s and in Argentina in the early part of this century, when similar desperate policies were enacted. The experience in South America of bank... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
endowment gifts and gifts for capital projects, current use giving has proved vital as a flexible source of seed money to launch visionary initiatives, such as FIELD, the Harvard i-lab, and HBX. The HBS community has responded with... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
effort to strengthen “reasonable price” provisions in California law, pushing for standardized prescription compounding and pricing, as well as price schedules set by manufacturers. “The history of American capitalism has always been... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
productivity revolution due to the loss of skills in society. "The other key underpinning is education," he continued. "In South Africa in particular, the legacy of apartheid was extremely destructive, and human capital... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
of the Private Capital Research Institute By: Lerner, Josh, and Leslie Jeng Abstract—Private markets are becoming an increasingly important way of financing rapidly growing and mature firms, and private investors are reputed to have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
A few months ago, I wrote about the ridiculous increase in velocity that we are seeing in the venture capital market in my post, Velocity and Venture Capital: 11. Now that summer is upon us, I want to reflect on the subtle value of... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
highlights the key insights from the rich firm-level literature on MNCs. We then focus on how financial conditions in host countries affect the extent of FDI-related capital inflows, shape the operations of foreign firms, and mediate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne