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- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native of View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
Enforcement agency (ICE) over questions about how ICE conducts its business in handling immigrant families. Many assumed a legalistic stance, reminding us that ICE, as a duly created agency of the government... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
private-sector customer service? After all, it wasn’t so long ago that letters or phone calls to virtually any state agency might simply go unanswered. (And truth be told, the private sector often wasn’t much better.) After my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
are the opposite of what we'd expect based on large-company compensation patterns. Q: Can you explain the difference between stewardship theory and agency theory? How do these theories apply to new venture... View Details
- Web
Career Outcomes | Research Associates
training with for-credit courses. Sample Next Steps Graduate Programs PhD, Harvard Business School PhD, Stanford University PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, London School of Economics JD, Harvard Law School JD, New York... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Brandon Gayle
In the 1970s, Brandon Gayle's family left Jamaica for New York State, where they settled in Rochester. "I watched my mother build her career over time," Brandon says, "from serving as a bookkeeper at a local television... View Details
Mary W. Lawrence
Lawrence built one of the fastest growing advertising agencies in the 20th century, earning billings of over $100 million in less than five years. She broke the conventional mold of television advertising by using dramatic/theatrical... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details
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Fellowships | Baker Library
Fellowships The following fellowships include support for research at Special Collections & Archives. The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium The NERFC is a collaborative association comprised of 30 major cultural View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
marketing companies to sell it. Consumers, he asserts, have much to gain — be it money, price discounts, better customer service, or products tailored specifically to their needs. In the current system, information that is gathered about individuals by stores,... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
PeopleImages New business school graduates have now made their way from campus to workplace. For them, this should be a time of optimism and energy, of setting ambitious goals and testing new ideas. At... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
in Central New Jersey before it was populated in the '1940s and '50s. Once I went away to school, that sort of got left behind. When Judy and I bought a farm in Vermont, that rekindled both of our interest and desire to just be on that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Administration. Serafeim teaches Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems, one of several electives in the MBA Program that focus on environmental and social challenges. Given the surge of student interest in the topic, Serafeim, who has been studying ESG... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
energy.’ We were trying to be a bridge between saving the planet with new technologies” while talking to utilities and the “incumbent energy industry” about buying clean sources of power. Today, Nisha has evolved her focus and is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
distress for which critics blamed corporate managers, who were characterized in the media as “unaccountable plutocrats.” Out of this economic turmoil emerged a new view of American capitalism. So-called View Details