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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
of international capital markets. Several cases go inside multinational firms to consider how hedging strategies can be devised, how to value assets around the world, and how to pursue major financings that capitalize on distinct legal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
headquarters in New York, one of the executives charged with growing the league's reach and revenues is Peter O'Reilly (MBA 2002), vice president, fan strategy & marketing. "My focus is on strengthening our year-round calendar for our... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
draws for new business, including location, lifestyle, a loyal and dedicated work force, and a sophisticated fiber-optic telecommunications system. It also lays out the problems that new businesses face, such as high taxes and a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
elements in evaluating a business proposal First, how much of a home run is it — how big is the problem it solves and how great is the solution? Life's too short to work on things that aren't home runs. Second, is there a realistic View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
more sophisticated information streams from bank transaction data, tax payments, and industry comparables. This same data feed can not only promote better credit underwriting, but it can also enable small business owners to be more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
balance sheets. If price tags are the only tool used to measure value, said Gore, “then things that don’t have price tags appear to have no value.” In his talk, sponsored by the School’s Leadership and Values Initiative, Gore stated that in an ideal world,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
crafting innovative ways to make that happen in the Bay Area, where median home prices sail north of $1 million. In Oakland, for example, the nonprofit used a little-known tool called the Chapter 8 Tax Sale to acquire 24 blighted,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
develop new strategies to ease the impact of plant shutdowns, layoffs, military-base closings, and other dislocations by discerning areas of opportunity amid adversity and trying to stimulate entrepreneurial activity around them using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
strategy because strategies typically change over time, even for the best entrepreneurial teams. We also tend to be investors that focus very heavily on market share and growth. A typical business that we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
Lerner: Not only is the system not doing its intended job, which is to encourage new ideas, it is essentially being hijacked to tax the innovators. Still, it’s a real struggle to get people excited about patent reform. What are the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter. In assessing an immediate path forward, both liberal and conservative business leaders urged compromise to secure a sustainable federal budget, corporate tax reform, and the easing of... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense negotiations with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and Eurozone... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
rationales to do so. Energy independence has been a national priority since 1974, but “we don’t have the fortitude to tax oil, or to tax BTUs,” he said to sustained applause. As a result, he continued, “We... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the impact on GDP growth and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
scope of his thinking: You can’t talk about success and strategy without also understanding purpose, they said. Gulati was skeptical. But he decided to explore it, and in conversations with leaders like Blackrock CEO Larry Fink and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top marginal View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
New Ventures by Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999) and Bill Murphy Jr. (Farallon Publishing) The authors explain the key common strategies and tactics used by some of today’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs and offer a seven-step framework for the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
supporting private-sector research; another $2 billion was earmarked for R&D that the government wanted scientists and engineers to pursue to help local enterprises improve their technology and become more competitive internationally. But there is more to it than big... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
African continent and import taxes are exorbitant, prices can run sky-high—to the tune of US$80,000 for a 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser, for instance. To address these problems, Nairobi-based startup Mobius Motors has reimagined an affordable... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
systematizing a business so it will run without the owner’s hands-on attention; and dealing with government, especially over tax and regulation matters. These concerns, Bowen told his audience, closely conformed with those expressed by... View Details