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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
there and never knowing what’s around the corner.” Speaking of gold, the financial reward an independent producer can expect to see from a project varies greatly, with up-front freelance fees ranging from $150,000 to as high as $5 million... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
investor's financial returns. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets brings together a series of Harvard Business School case studies on emerging markets. This book is an invaluable resource for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Spice, P&G was a seasoned marketer with strong consumer research, a powerful innovation network, and the world's largest financial commitment to advertising. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311117-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
people with the right attitude (one that fits with the organization's culture), and proper training and organization (often in teams). Financial targets are given no more or less emphasis than targets associated with employee and customer... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
felt like I actually had the privilege to pursue opportunities that were never even open to me before, but also felt like I needed to use that privilege to find the best opportunities I could. Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024) I remember finding... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
Mbanusi. Among the developments created by the task force was the establishment of the HBS First Generation / Low-Income Club, to provide socialization, normalization, and support for students as well as encourage ongoing efforts—in View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
completed rooftop solar installations. CleanMax has played an integral role in India’s transition to renewables and received many awards. CleanMax was the first Indian company to win the prestigious Transformational Business Awards 2018 by View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
rounds of funding. This financial backing underscores the confidence and belief in Log 9's strategic vision, which is steadfastly aligned with creating a future where mobility and energy consumption are clean, efficient, and sustainable.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
advocacy, design, and construction services, micro Home Solutions works with communities, financial institutions, government, and multilateral agencies to address the housing needs of India's urban poor.... View Details
- 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
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
ads. But when this practice feels invasive to people, it can prompt a strong backlash. Marketers today need to understand where to the draw the line. The good news is that psychologists already know a lot about what triggers privacy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
powers so much individual prosperity. As the cartel prospers, homebuyers and sellers alike suffer its rigidity. Ryan and Tamny call for the evisceration of realtor commissions—the only price in all of capitalism that has not come down... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not,” Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
is increasingly tenuous. Firms are redefining their homes by unbundling their headquarters functions and reallocating them opportunistically across nations. A firm's legal home, its financial home and its homes for managerial talent no... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
where he is going, any road will take him there emphasis in original. If any road is okay, the chief executive might as well pack his attaché case and go fishing. If an organization does not know or care where it is going, it does not View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
and so many of the ideas that came to be taught were developed by the faculty. The cases were shorter and simpler but still raised important issues. Most of the students enjoyed the few lectures that the faculty offered because it was comforting to be told what you... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
South Africa in the late 19th century, they brought with them accounting practices such as “double-entry” bookkeeping, which changed the country’s financial system. More recently, hundreds of Soviet mathematicians came to the United... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Leaders of publicly held companies are required to exercise their best judgment in pursuit of the interests of the business, and this gives them enormous flexibility to make whatever choice they see fit. This a test that cannot be deferred to View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
have argued that the real problem is that incentives work too well. Specifically, they motivate employees to focus excessively on doing what they need to do to gain rewards, sometimes at the expense of doing other things that would help... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace