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  • 02 Nov 2015
  • News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

work, in particular the relationship between investors and management. It was that dynamic that propelled him to HBS three years later. “HBS kicked my butt,” he recalls, recalling his experiences with professors Michael Porter, Jeffry... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Truth in Lending

economies, that financial data often doesn’t exist. Without a way to evaluate credit applicants, lenders are not inclined to make the type of small-business loans—for instance, just $5,000 for working capital or $20,000 for machinery—that... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 03 Apr 2017
  • What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

and clearly should be implemented. But it won’t while the merits of human capital investment are substantial, the political realities of our grotesquely divided nation today would appear to me to be a hurdle too high to surmount.” The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction
  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

over very fast. They can leverage their connections in the community, both to stay abreast of new designs and for marketing purposes. Moreover, their lack of capital is not a problem, because it would be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • Career Coach

Craig Husa

As the founder or CEO, Craig (HBS ’90, USNA ’83) has grown and sold four technology-enabled companies to leading public companies.  He attributes most of his success (the rest is luck) to building and leading high performing teams who can grow companies and revenue by... View Details
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  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

understand the linkage between internal operations and external markets including capital markets, customer markets, and supplier markets. To communicate effectively with these markets, managers must know... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)

illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

Deutsche Bank: Discussing the Equity Risk Premium

Two members of Deutsche Bank's Fixed Income Research Group are discussing how to advise clients on bond vs. equity asset allocation. A critical aspect to this asset allocation decision is the equity risk premium. Discusses a unique way developed by the bank for... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Asset Management; Bonds; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Institutional Investing; Equity; Banking Industry; Germany
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  • 08 Dec 2009
  • News

Don’t Scare the Bankers

kind of hilarious to me. But that was then, and now it’s semi-communist China that’s keeping American capitalism afloat. And Mr. Ji’s notion of banking was shaped in a different era, when banking was still a proudly conservative... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Offices of Bank Holding Companies; Management
  • February 1984
  • Case

Chicago-Midway (B): Midway (Southwest) Airlines

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Air Transportation Industry
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  • March 2006 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

NOK (A)

By: Das Narayandas and Kate Attea
Highlights issues that a multidivision firm faces as it moves from managing products for profit to managing customers for profit. View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Management; Product Marketing; Organizations; Commercialization
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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind

One function builds relationships with customers, another develops products, and the third oversees the operational infrastructure. Even though these activities often conflict with each other, traditionally they have been bundled together... View Details
  • Web

Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog

of heightened geopolitical tensions, breakthrough technological innovations, and significant demographic change presents not just complexity but immense opportunity. This course provides frameworks for recognizing patterns across markets... View Details
  • Web

Outrage at the Death of a Tree - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

learn from business? I think there's a lot of room for cross-learning here. One of the things I think the religious community can learn from the business community is that the realm of business is not as simple as it tends to think it is, that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2020
  • News

Hitting the High Notes

of Lynn Harrell, which includes a supporting cast of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, John Williams, André Previn, and Anne-Sophie Mutter. Chicago Alumni Get Insight on Creating a Magnetic Culture Human Capital Management expert Kevin Sheridan... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 02 Sep 2018
  • News

Havana Rising

homes—things like restaurants and taxi companies. Over the years, though, even those small openings were further restricted or rolled back, the relationship between the government and capitalism remaining... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North