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Courses - Private Capital Project

firm's effectiveness throughout the deal process in the context of tax reforms, regulatory uncertainties, and global market volatility. The curriculum addresses issues pertaining to industry infrastructure, portfolio management, and... View Details

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

provider must decide whether to IPO or accept an offer to be acquired by Euromoney, a global publishing and information content provider that is eager to launch an Internet information service. The case contains a term sheet that can be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

that they can leverage both countries symbiotically. Second, conduct a series of experiments. An entrepreneur has to make many decisions: how much money to sink in, whether to partner, how to work with relevant government or regulatory entities, whether to invest in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jul 2014
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Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

consumer, which gets rid of the noise in an effort to study the majority of customers, but also gets rid of people who are potentially leading the category," she says. “Often the lovers or haters of a product can be the canary in the coal mine” By View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

specifically, the volume focuses on the economic institution of the business group and aims at understanding the factors behind its rise, growth, resilience, and/or fall; its behavioral and organizational characteristics; and its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2021
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SIPs in 2021

The fourth year of Harvard Business School’s Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) came during a month of national upheaval and under the ever-darkening cloud of the global pandemic. So perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that one course, held... View Details

30 Apr 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

25 Aug 2022
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Reinventing the Future of Business

will position HBS and the University overall as global leaders in reshaping the landscape of the digital-first world and the role of business in that transformation. The School is able to launch an endeavor of this magnitude because of... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

in addition to valuable connections that will move it in a strong direction. In a collaborative learning environment, attendees gained access to the latest thinking around rapidly changing global dynamics affecting entrepreneurship and... View Details

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

appeared to be run little better than and little richer than most of Latin America. Second, why was the canal so much better run after the handoff to Panama than it had been before? The turnaround has been astounding. The answer to these two questions seemed to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

About the Project 09 Aug 2013 Video Dean Nitin Nohria Announces the U.S. Competitiveness Project Video What Is the U.S. Competitiveness Project? 02 Apr 2015 Video An Economy Doing Half Its Job Re: Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin The U.S. Competitiveness Project is a... View Details

23 Sep 2022
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8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

help leaders more successfully innovate and change in their industries as they parse mixed messages about the global economy, with rampant inflation wearing on consumers and investors preparing for recession. Productive Tensions covers... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 Mar 2023
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Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

person or virtually, but on the same schedule—especially as work-from-home policies increase and the global workforce scatters. “If you’re living in San Francisco, and your colleague is living in Vancouver, and you both speak excellent... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

that address all aspects of the climate crisis. Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard - Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab The mission of the lab is to advance our understanding of how digital transformation and the use of... View Details

08 Aug 2005
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Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

How a company decides who is authorized to make what types of decisions can have a profound effect on its business, both in terms of everyday effectiveness and the bottom line. Consider the experience of one global conglomerate that... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

themselves, shifting both professional and personal priorities in profound ways. Indeed, far beyond a deep understanding of business, industry, and leadership, the reflections below highlight the ways in which cases have also revealed,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 2021
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Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

“brought finance to life for me,” he says. In addition to being an excellent teacher, Glauber introduced Melwani in 1985 to Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972), cofounder of Blackstone, the firm Melwani joined in 2003 and where he is now senior managing director, View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Energy Dustin Tingley Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy and Entrepreneurial Management) Geoffrey Jones Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Entrepreneurship in Life... View Details

01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

Meanwhile, starting in 2013, Analog Devices CEO Vince Roche encouraged innovators from the top down and transformed the semiconductor giant into a designer of integrated, strategic systems—including a platform that accelerated the global... View Details