Basics Of Corporate Taxation - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

makes sense. So disclosure is a very important part of a better system, but it has to be more timely and apparent than in the current form of a prospectus. It was a poor performance by the banks; one that... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

credit providers and because of their unique role in the payment system: they are the only entities that can hold accounts at the Federal Reserve and are thus critical for moving money across the financial system. You can’t understand... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

Bowie State, a historically black college in Maryland. Then a former colleague recommended her for a job as executive vice president of her father's building maintenance business. As second-in-command, notes Lambert, "I View Details

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

personalization, storytelling, and community building Who Will Benefit Marketing Professionals Non-Marketing Professionals Entrepreneurs Advance beyond tactics and learn digital marketing on a strategic level. I think this course was incredibly beneficial to go beyond... View Details

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

entities and markets, we try to educate people about the basic principles of personal financial management, so they understand all the tools available to them to secure a strong financial future. Then, once... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

a real possibility). But will such spending send a signal that you can go out and consume again, or that you can safely go back to work? If people are basically locked down or if they’re too afraid to go out because View Details

04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

leaders after tragedies like this. Why do you think it was different this time? Lisa Lewin: Having been in business for over a quarter century, I've seen my fair share of the usual PR polished statements from View Details

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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

learning from them and differentiate between basic, complex, and intelligent failure. Highlights Intelligent Failure Experimentation and Iteration Show Hide Details Concepts Failing Well Intelligent Failure Basic Failure and Blameless... View Details

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

2021) prove not only is this goal attainable, but also that experience outside of investing can be highly transferable and valuable to the field. Mbanusi’s Road to HBS When sharing the story of his path to... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

of the basic tenets of the approach we've used to teach entrepreneurship? Howard Stevenson: First, entrepreneurship has been taught as a process, not as a person. There has... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

of investors and employees? It turns out that many of the boards of imploded companies such as Enron were composed of smart, honest,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

assumptions built into my portfolio to weather the storms? These are basic questions, but questions that have been mostly ignored over the past several years. What do you recommend as an appropriate mix for the portfolios View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

are today a lawyer, a corporate executive, and two CPAs, he notes proudly.) Six weeks after Freeman bought the company, the shop foreman and the head of marketing left, taking many staff and clients with... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

have basically gone too far. And on top of that, in the late 70s and early 80s, we made some terrible policy decisions in terms of what we did about drugs. We talk about Geneva... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

Nohria: The key moment really came when we clearly framed the question, "What basic mental drives do all humans have as members of the same species?" Once the question was sharply posed and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

Q: What is the compensatory consumption thesis and why did you want to challenge it? A: The academic goal of the study was to confront what we call the compensatory consumption thesis, which is widely accepted both by academics and the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

hearing. And suddenly, there he was — a Jew from a Jewish firm of no great stature on Wall Street — extending as valuable an invitation as a business executive could have: to be one of the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

P. Donham, a graduate of Harvard Law School who later practiced law and had taught corporate finance at the business school. His background led him to see strong parallels between the two professions. In a... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

support and corporate support, we now have a business and that business was really not there 10 years ago. Now it's there in spades and our job is to scale as quickly as possible. That's sort of, from a business perspective, great. You... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era: Lessons from Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft by Alison Davis (MBA 1988) and Matthew Le Merle Cartwright Publishing Over the last 30 years a host View Details

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