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Michael R. Bloomberg
City, a metropolis reeling from the shock of the horrible events of 9/11 and facing enormous economic and cultural challenges. Bloomberg led the city back to its feet and through the financial crisis that began in 2008. His focus on... View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
students relying on Pell Grants to meet their college expenses, these institutions are at higher risk of financial shocks and are often under-resourced [2]. They are framed as lesser than by some college counselors, and ivy league... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of credit shocks. Theoretically,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges “Water is a human right. It’s shocking that the United States did not sign on to the 2010 United Nations Proclamation on Water and Sanitation, but... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
patients after they leave the hospital, during what is called their “post-acute care.” Many seniors don’t simply return to life as normal. They first need to go to a nursing home or rehab center or schedule a visiting nurse. As a medical student, Hu was View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
currency bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country accumulates reserves in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
shocks in the system like the one we saw earlier this year.” How has the pandemic impacted the people you serve and how are you and the organization helping address these challenges? “We are serving more people than ever before, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Future has three major premises: The 1970s oil shocks were not anomalies but part of a major transition for energy users and producers; the “externalities” of energy use (its environmental, social, and geopolitical costs) had to be... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
economy stagnated for a decade if none of the shocks that arguably hit the economy seemed to have persisted for much more than three years or so? In this paper I show that the endogenous development and adoption of technologies can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
rationale for acquiring Whole Foods. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-041 Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund In October 2016, SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese conglomerate giant caused a significant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
difficulty of maintaining these over time, and as circumstances changed. Salvaj: The mistakes provided opportunities for these pioneers to display their confidence and to project self-assurance. They have been able to withstand shocks and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
with the VW Touareg and was partially manufactured in VW's Bratislava, Slovakia plant. Then, as if that were not enough, Wiedeking shocked the investment world once again by purchasing roughly a 20 percent stake in VW, which led to major... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
matter? Examining firms with standard long-run measures of corporate governance as they are shocked by plausible misvaluation, we provide consistent evidence that firm performance is impacted by governance when firms become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
predict that the board will design incentive contracts that filter out common shocks in performance to motivate costly effort from the CEO—a process that entails the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
Genesis 32:22–32, in which Jacob wrestles with God and is renamed Israel; David Brooks’s New York Times piece, “The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought it Would Be”; and exercises from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
sexuality. You might expect that many years ago. But, I would think that kind of thing would be over with. So, it was a little bit shocking to me, personally. I think other people felt the same way.” Still, Donaher says the discussion was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
greater explicitness. But the economic shock of 2008 appears to have caused many directors to reconsider what their boards had been doing and to question whether they could or should be acting differently. "I really do think it's time for... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
another company. This came as a shock to the CEO, who, despite nixing the ad campaign, had been quite impressed with the other elements of the marketing program and the thoroughness with which they had been planned. What he had failed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
shock of the Kennedy assassination and the accession of President Johnson. And increasingly, there was the problem of Southeast Asia. McNamara says he at first accepted the Cold War–based “domino theory” that if South Vietnam fell to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons