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- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
Elon Musk’s Space X is Number 9 and Microsoft is Number 8. If we’re Number 4, we must be amazing!” Amazing, indeed. Now the darling of big banks and major investors - with almost $100 million in support from Microsoft, Goldman Sachs,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
& Kapoor, 2010; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; von Hippel, 1988). Ecosystems generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their connection with an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on data from a 2007 World View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
from a natural catastrophe standpoint—and that's where people are moving and building. And so there's an increased concentration of property insurance exposure, in places that are more risky. And you know, if you have a home on the Outer View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
re-tooled to successful and profitable strategic ends. In Revival of the Fittest, he draws on his extensive global research in such diverse industries as personal computers, brewing, tires, and consumer banking to outline the pitfalls... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
trying to see how this new form of organizing people is disrupting business” He shared some of the team's startling findings in his presentation, Crowdsourcing to Stimulate Innovation: Using Contests and Communities to Solve Innovation... View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
country's domestic institutional foundations for sound banking systems as a precondition for full liberalization. Every organized voice of authority within the international financial system has backed away from embracing complete,... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
investment banking to become a seventh-grade math teacher at Harlem West Middle School, teaching for three years before taking positions in school leadership at Success Academy Midtown West and Harlem Central Middle School. The experience... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
Reserve Bank of Boston found the average net worth of a white family was $250,000, compared with $2,700 for "Other Hispanic" and $8 for Black (source: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Color of Wealth,... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues. And in designing development projects for developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
scrutiny?’ and I said, ‘Yes,’ ” says Carroll. Because of Carroll’s commitment to safety, fatalities in Anglo American’s mines have decreased by nearly 60 percent. At the same time, she has inspired a more collaborative approach throughout the mining View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
regime supporters. Communities that attract higher rates of public sector employment forfeit higher levels of fiscal revenue by permitting informality. This complementarity between public sector employment and forbearance amplifies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
to communicate with each other at will, then repeated the experiment. The result of increased communication was a significant reduction in inventory swings. The paper resulting from that experiment (and... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
day long and would often shut off the monitors. When a Boston-area bank first tried out videoconferencing kiosks to sell financial services, customers refused to use them. The systems were located in closed booths that granted privacy but... View Details
- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
decisions, both in the context of corporate investment in general, and banking and the financial crisis in particular. Looking into the future, I am excited to explore a list of other issues, most of which lie in the intersection of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
bank in Hong Kong before graduation. "Since there are so few world-class mathematicians, he wanted me to consider other career choices." First Boston Corporation, 1976-78 Why HBS? "An HBS alum at Jardine Fleming told me I would need an... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
capital for midsized companies. Because capital raising is controlled by the state, it tends to go to state-owned enterprises. That is a big problem for a lot of privately owned businesses and has created the shadow banking sector. What... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Large banks—including Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase—were among the former creditors. In October 2005, Eddie Bauer stock was selling for $24 per share. Analysts were projecting target prices ranging from $22 to $35 per share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace