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- 08 Jul 2011
- News
Spotlight on Sustainable Investing
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
PAULSON: “We were staving off economic Armageddon.” Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) is on a mission. As Treasury Secretary, the former Goldman Sachs CEO found himself in the distasteful position of championing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
investment. But even cash disgorged through dividends, share repurchases, or mergers would have a potentially stimulative effect compared with corporations banking the funds. It is tempting to pin hopes of an View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
Warren Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, blew in from the prairie last October, and some 1,oo0 HBS students responded with standing ovations before and after his wide-ranging remarks. The energetic, 74-year-old Berkshire Hathaway CEO did not... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards—implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. "The extension View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere
By: Ryann Manning
This article explores online blogs as a new forum for discussing ideas and practices in international development. Based on a qualitative study of conversations that take place across multiple blogs, I conclude that the blogosphere combines features of a public sphere,... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Interpersonal Communication; Knowledge Acquisition; Experience and Expertise; Globalization; Blogs
Manning, Ryann. "FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-084, March 2012.
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
used to be a rather blunt tool. That we live in a world of politically independent yet economically interdependent states was already a platitude by the time of Adam Smith. As... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- December 1998
- Background Note
Note on Dedicated Sports Stadium Revenues
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman
An overview of the rapid growth of stadium development in professional sports in the 1990s. The range of special stadium revenue streams is described along with specific examples of stadiums for the Washington Redskins and Carolina Panthers. View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Development Economics; Decisions; Growth and Development; Revenue; Sports; Buildings and Facilities; Sports Industry; District of Columbia; North Carolina
Greyser, Stephen A., and Kirk A. Goldman. "Note on Dedicated Sports Stadium Revenues." Harvard Business School Background Note 599-026, December 1998.
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Japan's economic recovery. "It is clear that something is wrong in Japan from an economic point of view," Porter stated, as a means of... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
purchasing costs of the spices by as much as 30 percent, savings it passes on to consumers. The Seeds of Agribusiness In the 1950s, agricultural economics professor Ray... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
students did just that when they traveled to New Orleans with the HBS Hurricane Relief Trek. Some students worked with Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, brainstorming economic development strategies. Others helped... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
become all too clear. The pooling and repackaging of economic assets such as loans, bonds, and mortgages resulted in enormous yields for many investors—until, one day, they didn't. "The View Details
- 05 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
The HBS Investment
prepared for two years of self-reflection that is thorough, exacting, and transformational. It’s a brilliant experience that can’t be understood from an academic lens. Best of all, be prepared to be... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
the social institution? How can good leadership strengthen morale as well as the economic side of the organization in times of uncertainty? A: We interviewed the CEOs before... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
India Conference 2015
discussion, opening his speech stating how he believed that India was the “Benjamin Button of the world”. He spoke of an India with over 2000 years View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
Guy Spier (MBA 1993) didn’t wait long after graduation to make the biggest mistake of his career. Accepting a vice president’s role at D.H. Blair Investment Banking, the admitted Gordon Gekko wannabe had a front-row seat as several top... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
Is the economic downturn affecting the willingness and readiness of companies to look at the economic, social, and environmental impact of their business practices? Or is this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
reality into the discussion by commenting that free trade and free markets, as described by economists in their theories, are both a delusion. “Trade today is pretty much an evil mixture of economics and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty,... View Details