Vulnerabilities - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2021
News

Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11

revealing a vulnerability that students at Harvard Business School were unaccustomed to seeing in their faculty. The previous day, all classes had been cancelled as news broke of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Two of the four... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

capital. Additionally, it makes the company highly vulnerable to technological changes and other types of shocks. In a distributed business ecosystem, a firm can scale more easily and respond to shocks by leveraging capabilities provided... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

economy through specialized, hands-on trade training programs. Searchlight - Ben Kallas (MBA 2024) - Searchlight will enable western countries to address vulnerabilities in their critical mineral supply chains by providing on-the-ground... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

'Rooted' In Innovation

include a mechanical engineering degree from MIT and patented novel technologies for self-driving vehicles. “But I don’t want to just make an app that delivers Instacart items five seconds sooner. My career vision is to tackle difficult challenges to benefit people in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

delivered to my house tonight, where it will be set up and ready to go. Lal: Furniture is often sold that way today. It's a showroom where your order is customized and delivered in six weeks. Q: What retail segments are most vulnerable to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

sharks” operated illegally, making their customers vulnerable to exploitation. 26 The illegality of the industry also poses a challenge for historians. Because most early salary lenders strove to keep their business under the table,... View Details

19 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Seven Lessons from the Section Experience

podium, and 95 seats. But after 400 cases and many vulnerable moments, walking into that carpeted room with its distinctive wood-glossed tables felt safe. Comfortable. Like a home. It taught me that no matter what space I occupy, I should... View Details

15 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 15

quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World Bank project quality suffers as a consequence of political influence only when the recipient country is economically vulnerable in the first place. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

project has gathered compelling interviews with business leaders in some of the world’s most climate vulnerable countries such as Nigeria, which contends with the desertification of forests, life-threatening flooding, and coastal erosion.... View Details

29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

industry. The plan’s design was guided by several key outcomes: saving jobs; protecting businesses with liquidity and fiscal incentives; building tech infrastructure to support work-from-home initiatives; providing basic food and information to the most View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

common cause does not mean that the production line is secure. In fact, the nesting dolls model may be the best way to go wrong while seemingly doing the right thing. Rosabeth M. Kanter The frail, forlorn face of Rupert Murdoch in the news exposes the View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

15 Jul 2025
Blog Post

Outrage at the Death of a Tree

minutes the 20-mile wide tornado was on the ground brought parts of the city to its knees, with the most vulnerable suffering the most. After all, their homes were the ones least able to withstand the winds. But by far, it was the trees... View Details

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Uncertainty about the future Information gaps "Soft" assets Volatility of current market conditions All companies must grapple with these difficulties, but young, emerging enterprises are particularly vulnerable to them, as... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

interests of vulnerable or disenfranchised consumers are protected. Encyclopedic in scope and authoritative in substance, the papers represent the sole major work on the subject to date. Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

Profile

Kanwaljit Bakshi

going into science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says.... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

03 Jun 2020
News

Keeping a Community Connected

new ways to support the community. In early March, the organization had to close all of their on-site programs and figure out how they could continue to help the community’s vulnerable populations, especially school-aged children,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

also cause political reactions harmful to capitalism. Other possible disruptions to the operation of capitalism were seen in the following: the global financial system, viewed by some as overly opaque, leveraged, interconnected, and therefore View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Alumni Career Journey: Margot Zuckerman (MBA 2024) – Integrating Climate into Business (and Government) Priorities - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

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Video Management Policy | About

proposed. The approach to selecting camera locations include: Primary building entries, main lobbies, outdoor areas, parking lots, viewing high-value or high-risk assets, loading dock areas, technology operations spaces, or other areas of View Details

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