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  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Rafaella Sadun | About

Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. She co-founded several large-scale projects to measure management practices and... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail
  • 30 May 2023
  • News

Finding PRIDE

found out about the Audiotext hotline. The technology for the hotline was fairly limited, but a person could call in and get prerecorded information about being gay at a time when there was nowhere to go for information. Fortune magazine did this huge story about gay... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays for it—such as a corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

historic 5-1 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt manifested the need for action; the club parted ways with manager Niko Kovač. The Bayern team appointed Flick as new team manager to lead the Bavarians back to success. Flick had worked as an assistant under Kovač and also... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
  • January 2020
  • Background Note

Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Sophus A. Reinert and Mariana Oseguera
This note provides general information about climate change and its implications for business. Included is an overview of climate change science and a number of its impacts, including rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and extreme weather, pressure on water... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; National Security; Government Legislation; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Science-Based Business; Weather; Society; Technology
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  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions exceeded the benchmark performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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John H. McArthur | About

Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Corporate Directors. BWH named McArthur a Lifetime Trustee, and also established the John H. McArthur Fellowships in Medicine and Management. In... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

successful strategies. Recent events, including several well-publicized corporate missteps as well as statements made during the recent United States presidential campaigns, suggest that managing the tension between pride and arrogance is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

"For most of the eighties," recalls the unflappable mother of three and wife of a college president, "I was pregnant, walking through steel mills, and buying companies." Now working with small business owners on a national scale, she... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established after the war. Located in Boston,... View Details
  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

Fails—and What to Do about It By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnström, and Derek Schrader Abstract—U.S. corporations spend enormous amounts of money—some $456 billion globally in 2015 alone—on employee training and education, but they aren't... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

organizations face a similar set of challenging questions as they enter the twenty-first century. How should they respond to the increasing number of complex emergencies? To what extent should they cooperate with national governments and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

organization required a very specific kind of leader, and he had one in mind: former classmate Williams, who led corporate and investment banking for African markets at South Africa’s Standard Bank. “He’s always been a real strategic,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 20 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and studies tax policy and the economics of the commercial space sector. Many potential problems can still sidetrack our trek to the stars: An accident above the... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation
  • Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

additional fees for our programs or any associated final exams. If you request a transcript from HBS Online for the Credential of Readiness (CORe) program, you are required to pay National Student Clearinghouse a small fee (~$5) to... View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Competitive advantage. Corporate strategy. The competitive advantage of nations. All over the world these terms quickly bring to mind the groundbreaking work of HBS professor Michael Porter, whose two decades of research on these and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter