International Capital Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

but needs some credit support. This allows women-owned small businesses, minority-owned small businesses, and others in underserved geographies to get credit even if the private sector market is not fully providing access. As my co-author... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country expecting that the economy will get... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

investment against cash flow to survive in a highly cyclical business. Such skills are usually transferable to new environments—and are the most portable type of human capital other than general management skills—but they won't offer an... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

developed a new way to teach capital markets, resulting in wide-ranging course materials and a successful book, The Financial System (with the late HBS professor William White). He also wrote a number of articles and cases, including one... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

plays a role in nudging enterprises toward less risky digital practices. “Saving our clients from being breached is the prime directive,” says Itskovich, who previously worked at Bain Capital and financial services startup Ebury. “It’s... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

endeavors where you need to mobilize such diverse talent at a global scale and climate change is one of those challenges. In terms of internal HBS resources, connecting with career coaches at CPD, especially those in the energy and... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

work: let people be themselves; practice radical honesty; magnify people’s strengths; stand for authenticity (more than shareholder value); make work meaningful; and make simple rules. Theauthors also provide ways of assessing how a company is doing. Direct View Details

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

immediate goal was to encourage MBA students to leverage their education to confront the most pressing challenges facing society. This spring, we helped teach our case study, West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward, in Professor Matt Weinzierl's course, Role of... View Details

14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

First-year students participate in a Global Immersion at the end of the second semester. They travel all over the world participating in short-term consulting projects that add value to our global company partners and help students build skills in teamwork, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

productive. I had no sense of time. I had fun.' That, to me, is beginning to articulate what spirituality, in terms of self-engagement and fulfillment, is all about." Jennifer F. Lawrence (MBA '87), a marketing consultant and professor at... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

marketing and field service expenses. With low penetration and high capital and operating expenses, cable operators experienced significant losses in most urban systems. Hence, in 1975, the industry was not... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

Web

Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

acquired by 3M Company and today the product is marketed as the 3M ESPE Lava Chairside Oral Scanner. CloudFlare Matt Prince, MBA 2009 Michelle Zatlyn, MBA 2009 CloudFlare enables websites to intelligently protect themselves from online... View Details

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. Specifically, we model competitive interaction between two platform... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

the most fertile area for business research in the next decade. By more deeply understanding human cognition, emotion, motivation, and behavior, managers could tailor products and services to unmet and previously unrecognized needs with exquisite accuracy. They could... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

succeeded in producing and distributing My Name is Khan in the country. The first thing Fox did right? "They set up shop in India." The company's previous release of the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar to the Indian market created... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

scholarships, supported by committed donors and foundation grants. EARTH is a private, nonprofit school that offers a four-year undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s degree in agribusiness innovation. Courses are... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

01 Dec 2015
First Look

December 1, 2015

for the post-colonial world and challenge Soviet leadership in the international communist movement in mid-1960s. When the wave of post-war decolonization crested in Africa in the late 1950s and early 1960s, inaugurating dozens of new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

billion to upgrade, rehabilitate, and widen the country’s major highways to international standards. The GQ, as the fifth-longest highway in the world, links four of India’s largest cities and many districts in between. "Will finance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

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