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- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
Press). What does this mean? That governments and DFIs will not be able to ride to the rescue and prevent further degradation in outcomes. Expecting these international actors to fund everything is not realistic. Yet according to Sifma... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
and how to more carefully monitor (and when necessary ride herd on) the partners on whom their virtual model depends. And they need to drive this process deep into their supply and production chains. One useful framework for accomplishing... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
company? A: Running a four-drive company is like riding a unicycle-it takes a lot of work to maintain the balance among these four drives. The primary threat to a perfect four-drive company is to avoid letting any one drive become too... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
ride supporting them along the way. To me, the role of a venture capitalist has a few parts. It’s part futurist, being able to see around the corner and have a point of view of what the world will look like. It’s part investor, making a... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
the onion” on financial statements. He would use his chalk on the blackboards, walls, doors, and floors, taking us on a fascinating trip to the last numbers of the case. We had no idea how we got there. But the rides in Professor Shank’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced by heavy... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
Business School Case 714-413 Tesla Motors In mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: it had launched its first really mass-produced car-the model S-to rave reviews; had recently raised first-year production targets; and had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
As one of the largest toy makers in the world, the LEGO Group has been riding high in America and Western Europe. To grow, however, LEGO recently faced a decision familiar to many other multinationals: should the company shift from... View Details
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
Hoffmann’s entrepreneurial juices. “Everything he says about start-ups and founders and the whole rollercoaster ride is completely accurate,“ Hoffmann said. “It is a risky but fun rollercoaster and if you are up for that... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
businesses. From 2005 to 2009, the company focused on becoming a leading regional developer with a multiproduct offering. That strategy was successful, riding the wave of spectacular growth in the Chinese real estate sector from 1998 to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
to monetizing news in the digital landscape, which is real-time, searchable, sharable, multi-sourced, anytime, and any screen, were emerging in 2010. Could content creators get people to pay for what they watched, read, listened to, and shared online? Were news... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commencement 2013 Address | About
coasters with the biggest vertical drops to keep my fear fresh. I wouldn’t want to forget how to terrify myself on command.” During your time here, you joined us on a similar roller coaster ride we called FIELD—an effort to reimage how we... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
argued, the company was "involved in every aspect of the operation"-from how many rides drivers had to accept in an hour to how they had to interact with customers. Two separate class-action lawsuits against Uber and Lyft are still... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
rebrand as Gordon Gekko or Lumbergh from Office Space. No, mon frère, I wanted to emerge as a more Rolodexed, numbers-savvy, overall better business journalist. Plus, I’d be riding out a nasty media-sector slump. Three years after my... View Details
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
Lacassie Child: Elisa (almost 3 years), Amalia (due May 8th) Student Status: EC Where are you from? Chile Professional pathway pre-HBS: Financial Services in Chile Post HBS Plan: BCG, Boston Office Little one’s favorites: Dancing, Llama Llama books, all kinds of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
and manufacturing’s contribution to the American standard of living is enormous.” “We don’t have the luxury of saying that we’ll ride this out,” notes Katz of manufacturing’s current slump. “We don’t think there’s anything to View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
companies are riding the coattails of globalization to send their offerings around the world. Is it more difficult for multinationals or other global companies to practice service profit chain management given this dispersing of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) is frank.... View Details