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- 20 Feb 2025
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IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
infrastructure make a case in point. The exorbitant cost of new structures, the limited number of opportunities for post-Games usage, and even the sometimes questionable quality of the construction are often... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
threat—it can also reveal significant underlying heterogeneity in the old technology's broader demand environment. This heterogeneity is a source of opportunities that can support a new position for the old technology, in either the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Minority Students | MBA
Foundation The LunaCap Foundation assists Mexicans (born anywhere in the world) or current active military or U.S. Armed Forces veterans with the cost of an MBA education. Candidates will be selected based on performance but, more... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
better resources; and few (if any) companies have ever worshiped more devoutly at the altar of raw individual talent than Enron, one of the most spectacular corporate failures in history.3 As we will show, underlying structural similarities in View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
emissions reductions immediately, Henderson and the other speakers were optimistic that it is completely plausible to change today’s practices and norms. Despite ongoing debate about the cost of decarbonizing the world’s economy,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
undercutting an era of new opportunity for American workers that I call Work 3.0. Work 1.0 existed through roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Almost any worker who wasn’t self-employed was a company’s employee. Work 2.0, our... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
renegotiations. Our results indicate that institutional managers that participate in loan renegotiations consequently trade in stock of the same company and outperform other managers by approximately 8.8% in annualized terms in the month following loan renegotiation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
assessing the opportunity for a new medical diagnostic tool that targets a previously unaddressed customer segment. My job involves reaching out to our different country teams across the globe to evaluate the View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
BILMES AND STIGLITZ: Among a costly war’s casualties, American prestige and power. PHOTOS: (LEFT, RIGHT) DOMINICK REUTER, DAN DEITCH The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W.W. Norton, 2008) is not just about... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
like that. We saw that there was an opportunity to bring cleaner and cheaper energy through solar energy to these companies. “We started CrossBoundary Energy as an affiliated investment vehicle to help finance solar energy for businesses... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
disabilities, and lower-wage workers, the cost to build simply cannot be covered by the rents they can pay—there has to be a subsidy of some kind. In regions like the Bay Area, middle-income rents can’t cover the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Climate Change
On Sunday, 300,000 activists took to the streets of New York for the People's Climate March, the biggest climate protest in history, and the United Nations on Tuesday held the Climate Summit. In the spirit of Climate Week, we present insights from members of the... View Details
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Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA
total of three years of financial aid from HBS and HKS toward the MBA/MPP or MBA/MPA-ID degrees. Prospective degree candidates are eligible to apply to a number of fellowship opportunities within HKS that may to help defray the View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19
Times of Crises We are all inundated on social media with strong opinions during these unprecedented times, and I was finding it challenging to capture tactical talking points to share with my peers. My prior experience in the VC industry gives me the fortunate View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
between the high cost of developing prescription drugs and patient demand for lower prices. Speaking on “The Politics of Innovation,” McClellan acknowledged that many patients have resorted to buying drugs outside the FDA’s regulatory... View Details