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- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
legislation should enable record-level of government investment in decarbonization. The U.S. is ripe for the transition. Business and government need to get better at collaboration, but leaders must also simultaneously provide adequate guardrails to ensure View Details
- Web
GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology
identified or identifiable individual located in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway (GDPR Processing). Harvard units or programs must comply with the GDPR when conducting GDPR Processing. The GDPR requires that security measures be appropriate in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
determine types of projects or corporations respond to specific requests from nonprofitsMiminal performance ecpectations Shared visioning at top of organizationProjects of limited scope and risk that... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
choices that you're making today are going to affect the choices that you're going to make tomorrow." The findings “contrast with the idea that higher quality and more experienced job candidates are better shielded from labor market risks... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share price that the current... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
is yes. The safety of the financial system depends on financial institutions' risk exposure, their ability to absorb losses, their reliance on short-term wholesale funding, transparency, and understanding the interconnectedness between... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
the agent stresses how Allyn could have a much better life and far more effectively advance the shared goals of reducing the risks of nuclear war and improving relations between the two hostile superpowers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
- News
Raising Prospects for Female Funders
European startups. We raise awareness for women and invite them to be investors, and also share best practices and network and change the reality that we face to improve those numbers. “We want to inspire more women to be investors. We... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
outcomes. That’s the sense provided by responses to this month’s column. “Seems like humans have learned to control the world but not themselves,” wrote Akn1307hbs in a concern shared by others. “Unfortunately, we have not yet figured out... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
control-ownership divergence and syndicate structure is mitigated by the lead arranger's reputation and lending relationship with the borrowing firm as well as by strong shareholder rights and good credit information sharing systems.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
substantive close to the class, fearing that without some pulling-together of the class discussion, students may leave feeling confused, frustrated and perhaps demotivated. These competing views suggest that case instructors should take care to avoid the View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
is still enabling thousands of different firms to survive. Value Sharing And Risk Management How can a niche player influence the way that value is shared in an ecosystem? How... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
stores, schools, and other food-handling establishments, checking whether they adhere to public health regulations. The rules are strict. Food businesses where serious violations are found must clean up their acts quickly or risk being... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on growing the business with its current industry-leading... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Portrait Project
Arturo Alvarez Demalde
I want to transcend individual success; I want to create and share success with others. Watching a sunset on the beach with my wife, celebrating a new birth with my family, being part of a wining team, closing the right deal for both... View Details
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Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
directly from HBS faculty, as more and more academics and practitioners began to question why results-driven thinking couldn’t be applied to the social sector. The core of Bridgespan’s strategy is anchored in knowledge: to capture and View Details