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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
HBS Alumni Resume Book who have relevant board experience Identify and contact executive search firms (see list below) Increase Your Visibility Sell yourself as an expert - get published, get quoted, give speeches, serve on panels, etc. View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
importance for a concept that inevitably will become confused with other developments in management. For example, how will answers to that question be clouded by the political debate surrounding the importance of ESG (environment, social, and governance) and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2008 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
Korea: On the Back of a Tiger (Abridged)
What caused the 1997 Korea crisis? Did the International Monetary Fund (IMF) help or hinder recovery? Did democracy help or hinder recovery? Seen as an economic miracle, Korea succumbed to the wave of currency crises sweeping Asia in late 1997. Did the same state-led... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Foreign Direct Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Asia; South Korea
Huang, Yasheng. "Korea: On the Back of a Tiger (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 708-052, April 2008. (Revised June 2008.)
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization
methods of recycling thermoplastic ABS polymer, to bio-based and biodegradable materials, to their Replay program that enables users to donate used bricks for reuse. LEGO Group has a clear emphasis on cooperation and consortium forming through initiatives like View Details
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
between the two companies. In March 2021, Model was a part of the Agios team that finalized the sale of the biotech’s oncology portfolio to international pharmaceutical company Servier. For Agios, the sale was part of a pivot from cancer... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
participants should think about innovation opportunities in data curation, he suggested. "Some US government data is still on COBOL-based platforms," Kundra reminded the class. "So we think an industry will form around data curation. The View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
is that I view people going into startups as essentially making an investment with their careers. And, if you look at the other side of the coin of who invests in startups—venture capitalists, angel... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
founders faced new internal and external pressures; particularly worrisome was the entry of auction giants Christie's and Sotheby's into the market. The Vaziranis' main challenge now is to consolidate their leading position in the market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Tata Hall | About
companies and employs more than 400,000 people. During Ratan Tata’s tenure, the business became globally focused, acquiring international brands such as Tetley, Jaguar Land Rover, a string of well-known luxury hotels, and Corus Group Plc,... View Details
- March 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures
By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
How should a multinational firm manage foreign exchange exposures? Examines transactional and translational exposures and alternative responses to these exposures by analyzing two specific hedging decisions by General Motors. Describes General Motors' corporate hedging... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Expansion; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Auto Industry
Desai, Mihir A., and Mark Veblen. "Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures." Harvard Business School Case 205-095, March 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
Administration Research Interests : capital markets , foreign direct investment , government and business , international finance Interviews Güler Sabancı Suraj Srinivasan Philip J. Stomberg Professor of... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
joining HBS. Audrey Atencio (MBA 2024, Section G), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Piva Capital Piva is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm ($500mm AUM) investing in visionary entrepreneurs who are solving the world's critical... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, who leads the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “Our paper reveals some very attractive and socially beneficial aspects of the private equity industry,... View Details
- 09 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back
with a group of sectionmates I didn’t know very well. I met one of them through a Women in Investing Club event, and she invited me on the trip. As an introvert, I was hesitant at first—spending a whole weekend with people I didn’t know... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
The Renewal of an Online Community , Harvard Business School case, 2021. With Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin. Digital Infrastructure , Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment chapter, University of Chicago Press, 2021. IBM... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care
investment from Ambit Health Ventures, a medical venture capital fund, and is supported by HBS Angels of Boston. Following on earlier donations to Ukraine, in March Teodorescu and a contingent of volunteers and doctors delivered 50... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace