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AASU50 - Alumni
Programs & Events Programs & Events AASU50 Home African Americans at HBS AASU50 Materials Related Content In Their Own Words In April 2018, the Harvard Business School community was invited to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the African-American Student... View Details
- March 2010 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co.
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Bill Hambrecht faces a dilemma: should he accept a high profile client for his online Dutch auction IPO? Though it would be viewed as a real coup, what would accepting the business mean to WR Hambrecht? Should he seek other high profile clients like this, or should he... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Initial Public Offering; Disruptive Innovation; Auctions; Online Technology; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
Christensen, Clayton M., and Tara Donovan. "Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co." Harvard Business School Case 610-065, March 2010. (Revised May 2010.)
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
investors as well as trustees of leading nonprofits had expressed uncertainty about whether MRIs were compatible with a board’s fiduciary duties. Darren wondered if his board... View Details
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Total returns: stocks, bonds, & indexes
Where do I find data on total returns for stocks, bonds, and indexes? Global Financial Data : has total return indices for bills, bonds and stocks, as well as individual... View Details
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Donor-Advised Fund - Alumni
values How It Works A donor-advised fund may be opened with a gift of $1 million or more using a variety of assets, including stock and real estate. You can direct gifts to any... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
structure between software applications. Our test uses data from a large international telecom company. In total, we analyzed 103 applications and 243 dependencies. Results show that the enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Can Big-Box Retailers Provide Local Health Care?
National retailers, most notably Walmart and Best Buy, are making big bets on their ability to fill this need for local health care. At first glance, these moves are a bit surprising given that these companies have not traditionally been focused on health care... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Local Range; Retail Industry; Health Industry
Huckman, Robert S. "Can Big-Box Retailers Provide Local Health Care?" Harvard Business Review (website) (October 25, 2019).
- January 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Wikis at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: (A)
In October 2005, Myrto Lazopoulou, head of user centered design at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), contemplates how to spread the usage of wikis inside the company. As a "social software" like chats and blogs (both already in use at DrKW),... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Investment Banking; Applications and Software; Social and Collaborative Networks; Cooperation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
McAfee, Andrew P., and Anders Sjoman. "Wikis at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein: (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-074, January 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
519-011 Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Dean Nitin Nohria | About
provides a venue for the exchange of ideas among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and leaders of organizations from across the globe. 2018 AASU 50 The 50th anniversary of the founding of the African-American Student Union was used View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Educator in 2020. Maria P. Roche : Recipient of a NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2019–2021. 2019 Rebecca M. Henderson : Chosen View Details
- 2022
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Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism
By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of... View Details
Keywords: Luxury Consumption; Environmentalism; Tourism; Green Business; Luxury; History; Ethics; Globalization; Environmental Management; Business History; Tourism Industry; Antarctica; Latin America; North and Central America; Europe; Switzerland; Chile; Costa Rica; Africa; Kenya
Jones, Geoffrey. "Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism." Chap. 27 in The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business, edited by Pierre-Yves Donzé, Véronique Pouillard, and Joanne Roberts, 571–590. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Cotting House | About
Lee, Higginson & Company. After serving in the Army Air Service during World War I, he returned to the investment firm, where he became a partner. Cotting served as chairman of... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7
indicated which topics were being searched and created content accordingly. Demand treated its 5,000 online articles published per day as an investment, not a cost, a reversal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
focuses on commodities where climate and soil conditions give a particular region a true competitive advantage. The partnerships bring in NGOs like TechnoServe and Root Capital, View Details
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Loeb House | About
banking and brokerage firm Carl M. Loeb & Company, later called Loeb, Rhoades & Co., where John Loeb served as a senior partner from 1955 to 1977. He was widely regarded as... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
make the biggest positive impact in education. When Waldron joined Curriculum Associates, the company had already been doing just that for almost 40 years. “There is a relationship between long-term thinking, social purpose, and success,”... View Details
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker