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- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
a large scale. Mexico is still a very conservative society, and talking about sexual health is taboo. Many of my high school friends had unplanned pregnancies at a young age. In fact, three out of five women have unplanned pregnancies in... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
Tesla's model range is expected to grow to include Cybertruck in 2023 and eventually a Roadster. But the Tesla model lineup in 2025 will be largely the same models it offers today.However, Fortune reported that Tesla shares hit their... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
of cards that is being held up largely by a Communist regime and foreign investors who are for the most part silent about the results of their Chinese investments. Where does the truth lie—at the extremes or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
that perspective to the next level,” she shared. Schoonbeek was also eager to gain more experience as an operator at a startup company to supplement her experience as a consultant working with large businesses. Specifically, she was drawn... View Details
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
asset class. In recent years, a growing number of individual and institutional investors have allocated a portion of their capital into agricultural farmland. Private investors, public companies, and sovereign wealth funds are now all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
Innovator's Dilemma as well as studies conducted more recently—might help angels, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs get around one of the heartbreaking paradoxes of success. Outpacing Consumers Every market entails a trajectory of continuous improvement, he began.... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
electrification of vehicles, including scooters and auto-rickshaws, has marked it as a trailblazer in clean energy alternatives. With a successful Series A funding round that drew powerhouse investors like Sequoia Surge and Exfinity... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
where FNC was available. Before the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which put a cap on soft money donations to national political parties, firms were allowed to make large donations to parties whose proposed... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
conditions in the world today: the declining capabilities of government, the massive size and increasing sophistication of the global financial markets, and the impacts of new technologies that leapfrog large centralized projects and put... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company investigated these questions, finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
purpose to create an impact on their organizations and the leader's own self-actualization. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review How to Outsmart Activist Investors By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
and local governments should invest in it. But the idea of investing in ECD for economic development was new and had never been tested on a large scale, particularly in the way that Rolnick and Grunewald recommended in a later paper—using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-106.pdf Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model Authors:Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman, and William Schmidt Abstract We investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
make companies more efficient when public markets are largely flat, they said. According to Nikos Stathopoulos (HBS MBA '95), a partner in Apax Partners, which was founded thirty years ago, "If you look at what drives the sources of... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
these movies are also primarily about men, so they don’t accurately show who works on the Street either. Those two facts are part of the reason that Munger, along with fellow coproducer Cecilia Healy Herbert (MBA 1973) and Monica Mandelli (MBA 1998), became View Details
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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog
transformation. Secondly, it would be important for investors dealing with distressed organizations needing restructuring or significant performance improvement. Finally, it will be of value to those who expect to support or interface... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
businesses in particular, should consider two broad sets of uncertainties as they engage in China and globally. First, as most are already aware, the role of the party-state in China’s economy is no longer restricted to pro-development efforts and ownership of View Details