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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
will illustrate the need to geographically diversify social spending. I want to point out also that this may have social implications that have not yet been systematically explored. Given the continuing trends in large-scale mergers and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
business opportunity. For example, in an equity spin-off, a diversified firm's businesses are split apart into independent entities, each with its own common stock. Spin-offs can make sense when a high-growth business is being held back... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, primarily in developing countries, both colonial and independent. In the domestic economy, large single product firms became the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
substantially lower costs, so we’re having a much greater impact, at a much lower cost.” Ferrari has also spearheaded Heifer’s efforts to diversify its revenue sources beyond the livestock gift catalog, through partnerships with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
diversified technology company. For Hamilton, this marked the electronics-testing industry’s transition to mature market status — an unwelcome development. “I was bored,” he says. “It was time for a change.” “I said to myself, ‘I’m done... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
approach for the masses. Investment management startup Alpha Architect, cofounded by COO Patrick Cleary (MBA 2010), is considering the launch of an affordable, active robo-advisor that would seek to outperform a passive, globally View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
her teaming up with Julianne Miles, a former business executive turned psychologist, to found Women Returners. “What we also knew was that there was a lot of demand on businesses to diversify their senior management and replenish the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities
(MBA 2019) Co-founders of the Black Tech Master Series & New Venture Competition Inspired by the need to diversify entrepreneurial spaces and the lack of access to resources and funding for black entrepreneurs, Kim and Tyler... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
From Africa to HBS
Humbulani Dombo (MBA 2016) was born and raised in a small town in South Africa. Growing up in a remote part of the country fueled her curiosity about the world, and sparked a desire to explore as much of it as she could. After graduating from university, she joined a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
processing), while a few continue to offer diversified products and services. Many, he noted, are becoming global retail or wholesale businesses. "Time will tell which strategy will succeed," Mendoza concluded. View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
through Vermont, because they have diversified their own risk across the possibility of hurricanes in Vermont, floods in England, and earthquakes in California. "One relies on the insurance sector to promote risk sharing," says... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
loss of control and precision of information). Before the 1920s at least, most German industrial firms did not have an extensive middle management staff. Large German firms remained much more diversified and decentralized than unitary,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
year or two, to develop. 2. Redeployment. Consistent with the family's strategic plan, they redeploy the proceeds of a business sale in assets (usually more diversified assets) that match the family's talents, aspirations, and needs.... View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2021
tech company in South America—was also a step toward diversifying the protagonists represented in the classroom. “We wanted to better reflect where our students are coming from and where they are going to—in terms of biography, geography,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Harvard College. Instead, he opted for HBS and then a job in Mumbai with his father at Mahindra Ugine Steel (MUSCO). Soon after he arrived, the young Harvard MBA was called on to restructure and diversify MUSCO. That was the preparation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bulletin, I have difficulty understanding Debbie Rosenbaum’s “feelings of inadequacy or exclusion” given her obvious history of personal achievement and the clearly diversified class mix. Perhaps her discomfort is generated by the choices... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language used to describe jobs and the company. Hiring. Educate managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize... View Details
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
and family-controlled companies, as well as companies with a large diversified shareholder base. Roughly two-thirds of the sessions concern the boards of US companies; the others are about companies based in other parts of the world,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
meaningful, they are by definition hard.” Weeks has led Corning through some of the brightest and darkest times in the company’s 163-year history. After investing heavily in fiber optics, Corning’s stock plummeted when the telecommunications bubble burst. Weeks’s... View Details