Risk and Uncertainty - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

other policymakers to remove regulatory barriers that entangle Indian start-ups. Worse than government red tape is the lack of risk capital for emerging firms, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna, an expert on the Indian View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

certain albums just to have the music documented." Maintaining a strong "catalog" - the label's backlist of albums more than a year old - is often what gives a label the dependable income stream it needs to be able to take risks on new,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small business. Working with Junior Achievement (JA) of Georgia, the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Feb 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

"Knowledge, Risk & Change: Business Without Walls," will attract record crowds, so be sure to register early! And it's not too soon to block out time for the 2001 conference in Cleveland. Scheduled for May... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact... View Details

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

the significant risks, what that risk could do to the protection of capital, and a whole variety of other factors. And those of us who constituted what we now call the... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

leading VC firm established in 2000 that focuses primarily on Indian or India-oriented companies. He describes a shift in confidence and a growing appetite for risk that is driving entrepreneurial activity... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference

The weather in New York City was dreary drizzle on a fall day last October 25, but on the third floor of 42nd Street's Grand Hyatt Hotel, there was pure sparkle in the air. More than one hundred HBS alumnae from all over the country and... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun

someone. On the other hand, a strategy that calls for broad but shallow market penetration is likely to produce an inconsequential valuation. If the intention is to hold the company for a long time, and the tolerance for View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City

best-practice tales from the frontlines, and networking opportunities with other alumni. "I had forgotten how great it is to be in a classroom," said Alan M. Silberstein (MBA '72), after hearing Professor William A. Sahlman's humor-filled... View Details

18 Dec 2019
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Thinking Smart About Numbers

brought into society. It also touched upon Desai’s earlier book, The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return. Professor Mihir Desai talks about finance View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

employees. So that's on the S side of ESG. G, governance. This is really how a company behaves. What are their standards for leadership? What's the makeup of the board? What are their risk controls, shareholder rights, voting rights,... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

huge that the economic benefits to a franchise far outweigh the risks of relocation, at least in the short term." Pitching and Catching Another lucrative revenue stream for the professional leagues View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

Michael and I think about that question,” says Gordon, adding that with the privileges they’ve had, if they don’t take risks in life, they’re wasting it. So, yeah, maybe her parents think she’s a little bit... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery

was the kind of place in which an internal memo might list people on a first-name basis. But it has since grown into a massive organization, with vast logistics and all the risk that comes with that. McKenna... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership

juggernaut.” While much has changed for Goldman and other investment firms in the last year, its rise to prominence — driven by extraordinary individuals — is a matter of record. The following excerpts from The Partnership look at two of... View Details