United States Treasury - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

Inside MBA Admissions

hosted 28 events in fifteen cities in the United States, with several aimed specifically at women and minorities. The office also hosted events at more than thirty colleges to connect with the “early career candidate pool” in an effort to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Apr 2014
News

Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good

on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

Connell Family Gift Funds Curriculum Innovation

support the HBS Leadership Initiative, and Connell House was named in William's honor in 2003. A 2001 Alumni Achievement Award recipient, Connell was chairman and CEO of Boston-based Connell Limited Partnership, which he built into one of the largest privately owned... View Details

Keywords: William F. Connell (MBA 1963); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

working conditions occur in the United States or Europe, usually there is a cry for more regulatory enforcement—along with an ensuing debate about how much government is enough (or too much). When such... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to poverty statistics for the first time. He was moved by them. “The United View Details

19 Jan 2017
News

Finding Purpose in Profit

trail running, hiking, surfing, skiing, or mountaineering,” she says. “My husband and I have climbed many of the world’s most beautiful mountains together, including the highest mountain or molehill in each of the 50 states and four of... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

CO2 emissions stretching to 2040. The story is scary. “The only thing that will change China's plans quickly is an energy miracle” The world's governments—the United States, the European Union, Japan, China, India and the rest—are telling... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

with encouragement from faculty mentors, pursued his growing interests in markets and investment. During his tenure at the School he has served as chair of the Finance unit and taken on a number of key administrative roles, including... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

and Indonesia to the Philippines, is now just half the world average. Poverty is not, of course, a new phenomenon. But during the Cold War, economic misery abroad did not matter to Washington; the United View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

roots of each country’s financial systems back to Alexander Hamilton and argue that while Canada has preserved a Hamiltonian financial tradition, the United States has favored the populist Jacksonian... View Details

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

dealings with one another. To assign human rights obligations to MNEs and their managers risks undermining this ideal. The paper situates this argument in relation to the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies operate units... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2005
News

Answering the Call

question we now invite you, our readers, to ponder as well: “What is it about these cases that makes them so enduring?” Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented with eight in-depth case studies, we analyze 68 organizational change... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
Case

Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal

In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details

Citation

Educators

Purchase

13 May 2019
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

contract relationship reverted to its previous state within about two years. “At the most global level, we’re trying to understand the contracting relationship between two companies,” explains Perez Cavazos. “The underlying element you... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

cancer at age 87 on June 2, 1987), all of the strands of Doriot’s life connect to form something quite profound. In the second half of the 20th century, the United States experienced a historic... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

debtor-in-possession financing. United and Delta together raised almost $3.5 billion in DIP financing in their bankruptcies.) Some argue that putting earlier investors at the back of the line is unfair, but Gilson says that giving a... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

01 Mar 2007
News

Gore All Business at HBS

balance sheets. If price tags are the only tool used to measure value, said Gore, “then things that don’t have price tags appear to have no value.” In his talk, sponsored by the School’s Leadership and Values Initiative, Gore stated that... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

Web

Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

technical employment needs. In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama underscored this point well: " Business leaders who want to hire in the United States... View Details

Publications