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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India
href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/search?spc.page=1&query=india&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC&">World Bank Open Knowledge Repository: reports, policy briefs, and working papers from the World Bank. View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
customarily used as collateral. Together, these developments meant that the ability to incur obligations occasionally outpaced the ability to meet payments, and borrowers could find themselves in financial straits. An industry of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Business School's commitment to international business education has expanded. When Dean Kim B. Clark announced plans last fall for the opening of an HBS research facility in Hong Kong, he underscored the importance of the School's Global... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
You Have to Save to Win
Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain unfilled because of a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Digging Into Data: Making A Career Change
financial services roles interestingly remained within the sector but switched their focus. The vast majority moved from private equity into the investment management / hedge fund space. And, 43% of students with manufacturing positions... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
best job you could have—a way to give back,” she says. “That clerkship opened my eyes to the benefits and virtues of public service.” She would later serve with the U.S. Department of Justice, first as a federal prosecutor and then as an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success
initiative he helped establish. “Having enough financial aid to be here is not sufficient to ensure that you have the cultural capital to navigate an environment and institution like HBS,” Bedford explained. “Low-income and first-gen... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim. Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving open the question of whether giving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
think several factors are at work. First, financial engineering increasingly allows for cheap recharacterizations of income for tax and book purposes, making tax obligations easily disappear. Second, the growing global reach of companies... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
so,” Kempf says. “We see it in views of the economy or views of certain risks, like the risk posed by certain political events or climate change or by the pandemic. There’s even the growing importance of partisanship in determining who works together and who does View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly mainstream investment,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- News
Remembering Walter Shipley
endorsing employee well-being and diversity long before those topics became fashionable. Beginning in 1996, the Financial Times reports, he asked business units to submit plans on diversity, including the advancement of women. When... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
Now in the midst of his second three-year term as managing director of McKinsey & Company, Rajat Gupta sits in a corner office on the 29th floor of a Chicago skyscraper, overlooking Lake Michigan and the Windy City's financial district.... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
of systemic issues that have gradually worsened since the 2007-2008 financial crisis. At the heart of the problem lies the consulting firms’ aggressive pursuit of growth as their primary objective, which has fundamentally reshaped their... View Details
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Lauren Booker
management, and supervising people." Transitioning into investing and economic development While her work at Goldman was satisfying, Lauren "wanted to transition within financial services to investment banking and ultimately... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne