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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
(Abridged) Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social mission. In what is one of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607064 Ascent Media Group (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 607-080 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607080 Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
himself as the victim of a tragedy, he used it to focus his life. "Why have I been put in this situation? What am I meant to do?" By 2014, Foster was in the midst of a flourishing tech and finance career, and he came to HBS to start the... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
gaming of Securities and Exchange Commission rules by Citigroup's mortgage-banking desk in 2007 is an illuminating example of institutional corruption in the finance industry. After exploring that case, I provide a more complete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
external watchdogs—security analysts, credit-rating agencies, and regulatory agencies—fail to bark? What actions can prevent Enron-type breakdowns in the future? Innovation Corrupted addresses each of these questions. A Sense of Urgency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
through either internal or external growth," he predicts. The hope, of course, is that consolidation will heighten efficiency and increase a company's ability to locate new sources of oil, resulting in more control over oil supply and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
boss. We had an external client who loved my work. There came a point, however, where for various reasons my boss felt threatened by my work and decided to oust me from the organization and proceeded by giving me a horrible review. I was... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Provident Association). Any profits are reinvested in the business. So, because there are no shareholders to protest, the deteriorating finances did not bring corresponding external pressures to improve... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
its country. The group has influenced customers and suppliers to change their practices, whether by helping a fish harvesting operation in the coastal swamps minimize pollution or encouraging a motorcycle courier company to reduce emissions and accidents. Commercial... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
venues of care and caregivers, and tools and systems that help and allow patients to be more effectively involved in their own care. To date, our prevailing model of innovation has been that knowledge flows into medical and nursing practice from funded View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
specialize in different stages of a complex production process. This paper considers the pricing behavior and profitability of these so-called modular clusters. In particular, we investigate a possibility hinted at in prior work: that for composite goods, a vertical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computers from an experimental technology into a commercially viable, enterprise-grade tool that will be exponentially more powerful than today’s digital computers. Any sector that relies on computers for simulation, optimization, machine learning, or security—from... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
protection and mimicking and changes in crime victimization. Our findings are consistent with the presence of a negative externality on the poor arising from the protection expenditures of the rich. Seeing and Being Seen Across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
activity and new venture financing is an age old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial, and in most cases they tend to fail. In the United States, debate about the role of government in these areas can be traced back to at... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
a member. JH: Drawing on the expertise of business leaders across multiple industries, from finance to technology to manufacturing, BENS acts as a partner, offering concrete strategies for issues ranging from cybersecurity to talent... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
it. So the first is when companies identify top performers for us, right? And a lot of times we work with finance companies or technology companies where, unfortunately, their employee set is not very diverse, and there are top performer... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
governance are the most daunting because the very foundations of governance—vote allocation proportionate to economy, representation by finance ministries, absence of parliamentary scrutiny, and the relative voicelessness of the poorest... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
organizational theory, less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We focus on how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth of banking in the U.S., 1896-1978.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
design business models to generate winner-take-all effects similar to the network externalities that high-tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook often create. A good business model creates virtuous cycles that, over time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Burning Man for the year, and also to remind ourselves that there's a place for honoring our past and honoring the things we've lost as well. Hanna: Now, Burning Man is a nonprofit. But can you talk a little bit about the finances... View Details