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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
trillion hedge fund industry to police itself with voluntary standards and codes. Codes of conduct and self-regulation programs are growing in popularity, but are these initiatives just window dressing to appease critics and deter... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
exports provide positive externalities and thus should be encouraged by government, the policy question is how to do so most effectively. One large body of thinking is devoted to identifying general barriers to exports that reduce trade... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
of their risk level, creating more loyal customers for the longer term. The Knot Worldwide is providing financial assistance to its vendors (like caterers, flower companies, and apparel brands) to help them get through hard times. Netflix set up a $100 million View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
debate and an exchange of ideas among serious investment practitioners about topics of the day. HedgeWeek.com Hedge Week is a free news source on the hedge fund industry, providing industry updates and... View Details
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Events - Business History
(Harvard Business School), “The Manila Galleon: Luxury Trade and the Silk-for-Silver Connection across the Pacific World, XVI-XVIII.” Marcel Anduiza (Harvard Business School), 12 pm to 1:30 pm May 14 14 May 2025 Virtual Seminar Grace... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
spring 2020, the team moved the concept forward at the i-lab, a dynamic space in Batten Hall where undergraduate and graduate students from across Harvard gather to exchange ideas, attend programs and workshops, and collaborate with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
opportunities. Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain The case describes Harvard University's consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a low-carbon substitute called Pozzotive®. Rio Tinto vs. the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
one dimension or another—for instance, Dollar General lost its focus on the values in its culture and, as a result, recently had to restate its earnings. It's much easier to be a tumbler than it is to remain a winner. Our research found that less than 5 percent of all... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
"For instance, if you invested in an Islamic mutual fund, among those industries which would be barred from representation as funds would be the gambling industry. But gambling also relates to futures; it relates to currency hedging;... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
fund. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813157-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-120 NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
that it is available for rent on eBay. Klarman's legendary success as both an investor and a philanthropist belies another aspect of his personality: he enjoys living his life out of the spotlight. At Baupost's Boston headquarters, Klarman spends most of his time on... View Details
- 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 capital market relationship in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Lawrence Summers HKS Selected HBS Cases on Financial Stability Bidding for Finansbank By: David S. Scharfstein & Esel Çekin FEB 2016 | Harvard Business School Case 216-040 View Details Novantas and Deposit Funding at First Regional Bank... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Professionals in Heavily Regulated Industries Learn more about the broader macroeconomic and political landscape your organization operates in, so that you can develop business strategies that create and capture value. In Global Business, we learned about currencies,... View Details
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
worldwide IFRS adoption is self-perpetuating. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of IFRS harmonization, although larger countries and countries less dependent on foreign trade have a differentially lower response... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
(board member), the ELCA Fund for Leaders in Mission (leadership council), the Dartmouth College President's Leadership Council, and the Wake Forest Parents' Council, and is a guest lecturer at various business schools. He and his wife... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
negotiating licensing and royalty agreements. One key move involved persuading TV Guide, in exchange for increased royalties from additional sales, to carry free ads for stores that would sell the game. Drawing on his trusted contacts in... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
2021, the firm had 36 employees and $18 billion in assets. That year, its flagship small-company fund outperformed 99 percent of competitors. “An important question for organizations is how to avoid group thinking in teams. ” As Brown... View Details