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  • March 2017
  • Supplement

Microfinance in India 2010-2016: Crisis and Recovery

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Yannick Saleman
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • 28 May 2019
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

market more than superficially. There’s a tension between the way product designers want people to behave and the way that people actually behave. Users will usually take the shortcut to whatever solution they want. The best entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 2012
  • Article

The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors

By: Jianxi Luo, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney and Christopher L. Magee
Many products are manufactured in networks of firms linked by transactions, but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This article investigates the transaction networks of two large sectors in Japan at a single point in time.... View Details
Keywords: Transactions; Hierarchy; Industry Architecture; Innovation; Networks; Market Transactions; Vertical Integration; Industry Structures; Innovation and Invention; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
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  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using both broad cross-sectional and narrow event-window tests, we find that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights

with 33.6 percent in fiscal 2021. The value of the School’s endowment (after the net impact of distributions from the endowment and the addition of new gifts) decreased to $5.1 billion, from $5.3 billion a year earlier. Capital... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

The Business Environment in the 21st century

we ought to aspire to make a very significant contribution. We’ve had a major impact in the past. We can do it again.” Related Links Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble? View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Jan 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

"In India, we are creating two different societies with a large disparity in income as well as access to knowledge and information." In large part, the comments seemed to reflect reactions to both differences in the fluidity of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • February 2009 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Windows Vista

By: Benjamin Edelman
Microsoft designs, modifies, publicizes, and distributes Windows Vista—against a backdrop of consumers already largely satisfied with their existing Windows XP systems. Microsoft must decide what features to include and what to drop, how to compete with its own... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Software; Computer Industry
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  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

  Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Star Search

determine direction and how hiring can impact that direction. Working in an ultra-tight job market for a growing company—and with years at Bain Capital’s private equity group giving her insight on the importance of strong teams—Gulliver... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 22 Dec 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

but needs some credit support. This allows women-owned small businesses, minority-owned small businesses, and others in underserved geographies to get credit even if the private sector market is not fully providing access. As my co-author... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference

administrative details of running a club; and communicate with members,” says Janet Cahill, associate director, Clubs and Associations. “Another compelling aspect of the technology is its ability to bring alumni together as a collaborative global community with a... View Details
Keywords: clubs; Centennial; outreach; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Profiles from the class of 2007

acquired in marketing and entrepreneurship. “How do you reach consumers of this product, music, and maintain strong relationships with them?” he asks. “Something I’ll take away from my time here is that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Truth in Lending

economies, that financial data often doesn’t exist. Without a way to evaluate credit applicants, lenders are not inclined to make the type of small-business loans—for instance, just $5,000 for working capital or $20,000 for machinery—that... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

intellectual capital and strengthened its relationships worldwide with important constituencies, including alumni, academics, and emerging and established companies. The School has also expanded its efforts... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • November 2010
  • Article

Beyond the Deal: Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign'

By: James K. Sebenius
While negotiation scholars primarily take the individual transaction as the "unit of analysis," this article characterizes the (new) concept of a "negotiation campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Management Practices and Processes; Value; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Sales; Partners and Partnerships; Venture Capital
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  • 19 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

you had been named to the 2019 "30 Under 30?" Akash Pradhan, investor, TPG Capital and TPG Growth: “I woke up to text messages congratulating me from friends on the East Coast.” Kiran Gandhi, musician, entrepreneur: “I was... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

preferences. Finally, we find no evidence that CEO activists using economic language are more persuasive in their appeals. The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Tractor Company Photographs The Caterpillar Tractor Company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of tractors, was formed in 1925. From early on the company mounted extensive marketing campaigns advertising their products for farming,... View Details