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- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and discussion. “The offshoring... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
The firm has also innovated in sourcing capital from a variety of limited partners. Blackstone's culture of centralized investment processes and risk management coupled with entrepreneurial leadership contributed to its growth in important ways, but the firm faces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/content/fdi-perspectives Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
companies (in terms of both stock market and accounting measures) that adopted almost none of these policies. Energized by Eccles’s work, the effort to advance integrated corporate reporting as a vehicle for transforming capitalism is picking up steam. The London-based... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
firms, and it was valuable to be able to study growth in a context where growth had to be internally rather than externally funded. Q: Can you tell us about the concept of intangible social resources and how they contribute to a young... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Welcome to the USA! You’re Hired! By Betsy Cohen (MBA 1978) Constead Press In this book author and economic development innovator Betsy Cohen presents wisdom from a dozen experts in career development and job searching. Foreign-born job... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
create something that hasn’t existed before, an influential, international institution that will be around in 200 or 300 years. We don’t want be just a cute website, but something that makes the content and the tools of a world-class... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
partners established Fundaï§ï£o Estudar ("Study Foundation"), which is currently helping some sixty needy, high-potential students engage in business studies at the university and postgraduate levels. Sicupira also works with Endeavor, an View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators are willing to pay a dollar to learn more about their recipient. Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
International Economy (BGIE) and teaching other courses centered on business-government relations and comparative ideology. He is currently working to start an antipoverty alliance of multinationals, governments, and NGOs that is the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
and internal vigilance, to deal with corruption. Infosys and Tata Group set high standards for their organizations in light of corruption in India. As illustrated by the experience of Siemens—which agreed to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
with new EV models from VW and General Motors. “They are superior to internal combustion engine cars,” she said. And, there are efforts to make EVs more affordable. In early April of 2022, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a partnership with... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
to the company. In 1988, Binder was named CEO. That same year, Amgen's R&D efforts began to pay off as the company launched its first product, Epogen, which stimulates red blood cell production and thus fights the anemia common to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
capitalist by day. I teach entrepreneurship with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies. I often ask my students where they think the root of venture capital is. They'll often tell me they think it's Silicon Valley. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
door to his studio, Yoga by Donation, is never locked. Students slide dollar bills or, occasionally, tens and twenties into a black safe on an unattended reception desk before slipping off their shoes and finding a spot on the floor of the one-room studio. If you can’t... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
MaterialsMicrofinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case Harvard Business School Case 808-104 CEO and founder Atsumasa Tochisako (52) sat in his Washington D.C. headquarters, looking with pride at the copy of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from the core business who has demonstrated a record of success? An outsider who has started and grown a successful company? The school-of-experience view suggests that both of these managers might be risky hires. The internal candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor