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- 15 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners
particularly in sectors where capital can drive meaningful impact. Throughout my first year, I solidified my interest in this area, especially as I reflected on the significant infrastructure deficits in my home country, Mali. This issue... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring California’s Climate Frontier: E&E Club’s Bay Area Trek
introducing students to the trends, companies, and leaders driving recent breakthroughs in climate tech. For many, the West Coast’s climate community often felt somewhat distant and detached from life on our Northeast campus. By engaging directly with the Bay Area’s... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
passion in their students. Our faculty members stay close to practice, interacting in the field with leaders and managers who are confronting the day’s most pressing business challenges. They apply knowledge gained in the field to... View Details
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Turnarounds and Transformation
Resources for identifying companies in distress and analyzing their situations Examples & articles identified using Baker resources on specific turnarounds Restauraunt Brands International 2Q23 Take... Upside Top to Bottom; Multi-Year Turnaround at BK US View Details
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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020
success with guerrilla art eventually led to commissions, exhibitions, and press coverage around the world. That aspiration also propelled the self-taught painter and sculptor to enroll at HBS to gain strong business and managerial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
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human connection); the destructive behaviors they adopt to relieve their anxiety (busyness, comparing themselves to others, and blaming others for their frustrations); and the behaviors they must adopt to gain strength from vulnerability... View Details
- 15 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners
sectors where capital can drive meaningful impact. Throughout my RC year, I solidified my interest in this area, especially as I reflected on the significant infrastructure deficits in my home country, Mali. This issue is deeply personal,... View Details
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IFC: Ghana; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
for both impact and profit are underappreciated. The Africa IFC will highlight the many opportunities and potential challenges for students interested in business on the continent. Students will visit and work with companies in Ghana and View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
overstate income and understate debt. For example, Enron would sell certain assets to new SPEs, booking a gain on the sale. Then, in quite a few of the transactions, Enron would repurchase the very same assets within months at a slightly... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- Profile
Kenny Salas
Kenny Salas, MBA 2015, came to HBS with a clear goal: "To work for a big company and gain operational experience." Then a combination of unexpected events changed his mind. After a summer internship at General Mills'... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
IFPI’s Global Music Report. Apple Music and Spotify, services that were once thought to be the industry’s coup de grace, have actually transformed cash flows. Streaming has also created important data sets. As listeners gain wider access... View Details
- 21 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion
President of Auditory Insight, a boutique management consultancy focused exclusively on hearing healthcare. We partner with senior leaders of device and biopharma hearing healthcare companies to develop successful commercialization strategies. We also consult to... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Banks are the principal... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
goal of getting into business in India, Khare thought HBS would help him gain professional credibility while establishing a network of valuable business contacts. "Whatever field I ended up in," he notes, "I knew I would get a world-class... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these issues “usually aren’t well known to funders with big pockets,” explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. In addition to financial support, we add... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous week, the worst such drop in... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control of corporate abuses. Unfortunately, much of today's international trade does not meet these conditions. Under the colonial system, powerful industrialized countries View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 04 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley
into venture capital, emerging tech, and career-shaping insights. This year’s trek saw a significant expansion, with visits to six top venture capital firms — a 20% increase from last year — offering students deeper insights into the... View Details
Keywords: Technology