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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
opportunities and jumpstart your career by gaining an understanding of financial concepts, terms, and principles. Leading with Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and... View Details
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Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)
By: Shawn A. Cole
This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details
- September 2024
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Topaz: Navigating Governance, Legacy, and Change
By: Christina R. Wing and Carla Larangeira
Since its founding in 2011, the Garza Sada brothers and their father positioned Topaz among leading family offices in Monterrey, Mexico, with several assets under management. Topaz aspired to have a transformative impact across multiple Mexican industries. An industry... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Family Business; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Adoption; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Latin America; Mexico
Wing, Christina R., and Carla Larangeira. "Topaz: Navigating Governance, Legacy, and Change." Harvard Business School Case 625-062, September 2024.
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
Unilever's business in the United States. There was also a culture change as Unilever shifted from a company that tolerated underperformance to one that did not. The implementation of this culture change and View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to efficient and effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
The Bay of Pigs Trouble at Talk of the Town Designs The Cuban Missile Crisis Featured Exercises Small group decision-making simulation 1-on-1 decision-making simulation Peer... View Details
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The Social Enterprise Initiative has long supported students and alumni starting organizations with a social impact focus. Our curriculum, career support, community building, and funding supports students in exploring social entrepreneurship and alumni to be successful... View Details
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Overview
The Information Age has introduced well-received opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands allow individuals to track their own performance; companies like Uber and leading hospitals help you choose a driver or a doctor based on how others rated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Action Plan: Wild at Heart
At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees
before and during the MBA program. Chris Egi (JD/MBA 2026) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Markham, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of the Greater Toronto Area. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before HBS, I was an investment... View Details
- November 26, 2019
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Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good
By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
Huang, Karen, Joshua D. Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 48 (November 26, 2019).
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
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Non-Financial Incentives
My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details
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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked
At the top of each program page on the HBS Executive Education website, you'll find the dates of the program, the location for the program (or for individual modules within the program), and what type View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
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How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Eligibility Criteria Awards How to Apply FAQs Qualified alumni may apply at any time during the first ten years following graduation; preference is given to graduates entering the Program within three years of graduation.The annual... View Details
- 16 Jan 2006
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Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
voice of the impartial spectator. With my coauthors I applied this framework to designing a savings product for a bank in the Philippines that helps clients act in line with their long-term interests. In... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 28 Sep 2023
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Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
the development of HBS Online, and leading the HBS CORe team. Her primary focus is supporting the Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC), the Global Networking Night (GNN), and faculty-clubs programming, as... View Details
- 23 Mar 2022
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Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did... View Details