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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Finance, scaling an impact investment in Anchorage, Alaska to become the state's largest permanent supportive housing program, and designing and launching an impact fund-of-funds to mobilize passive... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
the competitive landscape means that international expansion invites foreign investment and the potential for strategic exit. This strategy is a reflection of the larger trend among Indian startups, like Pixxel, which, due to the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
what makes us human. Now there’s an inescapable, passive sort of uncertainty: If you are running a gas station, you have to deal with not knowing at what rate EVs will replace internal combustion engines. But there’s also proactive... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
capital in Latin America. Chu still runs Pegasus but also joined HBS in 2003. His courses include "Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise" and "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets," the latter about managing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
what goes on in any organization or community sliding downhill—suppression of information, group vs. group antagonisms, isolation and self-protection, passivity and hopelessness. He began the turnaround with messages of optimism and hope,... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
coworkers by default. I would like to be one of many to tell you that Black people are not responsible for your education on individual, institutional, or structural racism. Furthermore, the time to be a silent and passive ally is over.... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
thinking they are fine and find out they are too passive or too aggressive." Intense Emotions Can Work Students learn that it's important to keep their emotions in check in many cases, but at the same time, successful negotiations... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
taxes, and this effectively reduces the tax burden on foreign profits. But, to receive the benefits of deferral, Cummins must reinvest the profits in active businesses as opposed to passive portfolio assets. Finally, a number of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
by passively while these great companies imploded? Why did they fail to select CEOs who could run these vaunted companies more successfully? Choosing the right person for the job Before examining the root causes of these succession... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
during the interview process. Research shows that companies with more women on their boards have higher return on sales, higher return on invested capital, and higher return on equity. This article explains what boards need to ask to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant information) and lying by commission (the active... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged from constructing new stock market indices based on ESG data, changing the compensation and incentives of active investment managers and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge flows and active... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
collaboration, and international investment in industry. The United States and Germany are represented as partners in both the railroad and imperialist expansion. In such images of “manifest destiny” that clearly transcended national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
Paper, THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PEACEBUILDING: Nurturing an Ecosystem for Peace: “The field of environmental peacebuilding still tends to see women, Indigenous Peoples, youth and other marginalized groups as passive targets for aid... View Details