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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

"This course is about the big ideas of finance, and how they map the most important business and life decisions people make." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Jul... View Details

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

Think of Harvard Business School's recently launched the Digital Initiative (D/I) as a giant laboratory, where leading scholars and practitioners convene to research, teach, and put into practice new understandings about the relentless... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

for Business in Global Society (BiGS) in 2022 to help business leaders understand and respond to these new demands. Building on HBS's strong foundation of work on issues like responding to climate change and... View Details

14 Sep 2017
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Harvard Business School’s Latest Case Study Looks at American Politics and Finds a Rigged System

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Rebecca Henderson Sustainable Business Strategy John and Natty McArthur University Professor "In this course, we will explore what View Details

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

law aims to encourage. In the process, these liquidations ultimately shortchange creditors by billions of dollars a year, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Samuel B. Antill, who studied three decades... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

“Young scholars frequently like to study a lot of different things, but they are often encouraged to really focus,” says Frank Nagle, assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. “Otherwise, how are you going to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Apr 2020
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Wells Fargo small business clients miss out on billions in aid due to scandal punishment

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

14 Nov 2019
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Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

and management.” Jan Hammond Business Analytics Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community at Harvard Business School “In this world of View Details

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Business of Ideas - Course Catalog

“ideas” and how they shape the world in which we operate; and the big businesses that nurture, launch, and sustain idea creators as well as the supply chains that create value from them. Several questions... View Details

07 Nov 2016
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The Business of Saving Old Buildings

movement in the state. “I graduated from business school in 1961 and the idea of reusing old buildings was pretty novel and unknown. I was interested in old architecture, and I think I became the first graduate of Harvard View Details

16 Jun 2016
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own business possible. I was a 2+2 admit,... View Details

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jan 2020
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Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

World. The book’s authors, Harvard Business School Professors Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani, say Peloton is just one example of how digital technologies such as analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally shifting... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Nov 2008
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Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

21 May 2020
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Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

We asked Harvard Business School experts who study well-being to share strategies for coping with this unsettling period to prevent the coronavirus blues from taking a huge toll, both personally and professionally. “You're not going to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

24 Apr 2014
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Building business for a better Brazil

Heinz, and Burger King. “Create a big dream. Keep it simple, easily understood, and measured. Attract the right people who work well together. Measure results consistently,” says Lemann. “You can create, run, or improve anything with this... View Details

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How Big are the Private Equity Transactions in Latin America?: Evidence from Twenty-five Countries from 2001 to 2008

By: Roberto Charvel

This article shows evidence on private equity transaction size and firm value size in 25 Latin American countries. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Alternative Assets; Latin America; Emerging Market; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Ventures; Finance; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Latin America

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