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  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

of other stakeholders if they are in the best interest of the corporation. In our paper, we aim to broaden the understanding of directors’ fiduciary duty and to provide directors with a new concept View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

I also helped to put together the investor presentation and figure out how we were going to tell our story so that people could grasp the power of what Facily was trying View Details
  • 01 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

When Congress passed President Obama's JOBS Act in March 2012, one of the most intriguing provisions would enable crowdfunding—the ability for large groups of anonymous investors to fund startups. More than... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • March 2010 (Revised April 2013)
  • Case

Equitas Microfinance: The Fastest-Growing MFI on the Planet

By: V.G. Narayanan and V. Kasturi Rangan
Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished to accelerate the already impressive spurt to three million clients in the next... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Supplement

Genzyme Center (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Green Technology Industry
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    Muhammad Musa

    Keywords: Development; Microfinance
    • 27 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 27

    scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to identify new ways of doing things; (4) Experimenting: constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Person Page

    Read excerpts from DENIAL

    By: Richard S. Tedlow

    The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

    Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

     

    From Denial: Why Business... View Details

    • 07 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 7

    ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that identifies the entire capital structure for 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 1998 and 2009 and that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jul 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

    product or a new way of thinking about the business. The leader of the Google X team that developed Project Loon (the self-driving car), Astro Teller, is cited by investor John Doerr for this elegant definition: “If you want your car... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 07 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 7

    their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 20 Aug 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Acquirers

    won't," he says. "If it doesn't, private equity investors can walk away." Factoring In Co-insurance Rhodes-Kropf says a co-insurance effect combined with debt market misvaluation plays out in different ways. A strategic... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
    • 31 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 31

    increases demand by seven percentage points. Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness Authors:Andrew Gershoff, Ran Kivetz, and Anat Keinan... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
    • 08 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

    I also helped to put together the investor presentation and figure out how we were going to tell our story so that people could grasp the power of what Facily was trying View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
    • 07 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: February 7

    crises and of the response of western and central Europe to their gas dependence-I find that firms are driving these political outcomes; those firms are motivated by profits but employ sociological... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2020
    • Book

    Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead

    By: Joseph L. Bower, Dutch Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
    Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
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    • 10 Apr 2019
    • HBS Case

    How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

    narrowly,” says David Clough, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, and coauthor of the paper. “There is a tendency to go only to close friends and family... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 02 Sep 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

    advisable? Would it bring more responsive government, passable roads, fair courts, and a quality education for citizens that the country's leaders desire? The answers to those questions could help not only... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • 25 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

    research seed funding to “double-code” all 1,320 counties in the dataset (the gold standard of data validation for crowdsourcing in which multiple people research the same outcome and reconcile any response... View Details
    • 13 Jan 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: January 13

    holdings, we find considerable heterogeneity in investor demand for securitizations in the pre-crisis period. We argue that both investor beliefs and incentives help to explain... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne