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- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Business School Case 715-006 Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot-a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines-that historically tied the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Ildi Nielsen
Ildi (Dartmouth ’94) offers 20 years of experience as a Career Coach and Executive Search Consultant for MBA and post-MBA professionals. She worked as a Career Coach at Boston Consulting Group where she helped consultants and alumni launch new careers in healthcare,... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
by looking out that far. When you start with a blank page more than a decade hence, you need to analyze how the next Allahabad Kumbh Mela city will be laid out. Will all of the elements be in the same or different locations, depending on the new channels and the new... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
strategic choices: geographic expansion, continued product innovation, serving MFIs outside of the OI network, and new distribution mechanisms to reach market segments beyond MFIs. Wholly owned by faith-based nonprofit OI, MIA must also factor in OI's desired mission... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Newbridge Capital, faces a tough call in regard to his firm's investment in Shenzhen Development Bank, China's fifteenth-largest commercial bank listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Due to the aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
SpaceX launched and successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral just a few weeks later—delivering 11 satellites into low-Earth orbit for a commercial client—CEO Elon Musk noted that it costs $60 million to make the rocket... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43743 How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Christopher Palmer Abstract—Despite massive large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) by central View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
it could replace the electrode in the millions of lithium-ion batteries currently in production. The management team needed to decide whether to pursue the breakthrough self-assembly technology or move resources to commercialize the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
short-term and long-term thinking, and craft emotionally engaging visions while staying focused on execution. In this article, we analyze how one organization, GE Money Bank in Switzerland, successfully created a new growth business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
joining Teach for America or law school, and then ultimately management consulting after college graduation. In consulting, Leahy had her first exposure to the retail industry, working primarily with clients in the retail banking and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
responsibility to other people and preferred a more informal means of organization. Krupp constantly intervened, questioned, and meddled in his executives' decisions. Siemens evinced a disdain for commercial organization, even calling one... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
common struggle for firms to get innovation investments right, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. On one hand, firms large enough to house their own research labs too often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Career Coach
Brent Brown
Brent (HBS '02) has experience in private equity/venture capital, investment banking, and real estate, consumer products and digital media industries and currently serves on the boards of numerous private companies. Work Experience: US Army, Goldman Sachs, Taurus... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify was interested in View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne