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- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
3.6 percentage point rise in the probability a financial crisis will ensue. When commercial lending is backed by real estate, the alarm sounds even louder. Each standard deviation increase in real-estate backed corporate credit relative... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
in society different in India than in the West? Expectations concerning business are becoming more like those in the West. Indeed, there is probably a greater requirement of business in India to be engaged in its immediate environment, to... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
person we talk to nods his head but he doesn't seem to listen." It occurred to me that probably only a few of our people had ever heard from this man directly, and even they may have never seen him as frustrated as he was over that... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- Profile
Mariano Bomaggio
more international perspective outside the U.S., maybe in Africa." When asked about his plans after graduation, Mariano confides that it's "a tough question! I want to keep learning, probably within the finance world, at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
In Thoroughbred racing, no one knows for sure how to pick a champion. But after decades in the business, Terry Finley (OPM 45, 2014) is probably a better guesser than most. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga... View Details
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
least for now) without my input. Like me, I bet Americans feel they had a better plan than what Washington came up with, and they’re probably right. Sausage-making, and its final product, has seldom been so unpalatable. Summer doesn’t... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sam Li
probably take me three minutes, but for Michael, it was like taking a stressful exam. What is a password security question? What is PayPal? It was too much. Computer technology disrupted his life without providing much benefit. We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
HBS. He later embarked on a career in banking, married into the Heineken brewery empire, settled in London, raised a family, and rose to become vice-chairman of Citigroup. Perhaps his only regret: "Looking back, it was probably a mistake... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
public school students in America, how can you provide a more individualized learning experience? If you had an experience with a terrific teacher, you probably remember feeling that that teacher provided you with individual attention and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
likely to collaborate on a deal than were two VCs from different alma maters. And the probability of collaboration between VCs increased by 39.2 percent if they were members of the same ethnic minority group. The data held up with what... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Act is an interesting piece of legislation," said Reinhardt. "The federal government has to do everything it can to reduce the probability of extinction. It's explicitly prohibited in the statute from balancing costs and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
She hopes the results make business leaders think twice about how they size up their customers and rely on previous purchases to predict the products they want. “For instance, imagine you see a person buy a plain black backpack,” she says. “You View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
carry them out. You need an informant - and that probably means you have to know a terrorist. I've been involved in foreign policy for more than 35 years. There is no field more dependent on good intelligence than counterterrorism, and... View Details
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Elizabeth Scharpf Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Next great idea? Probably not from where you think Elizabeth Scharpf 14 Sep 2017 About... View Details
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
the worst. Never disappointed." Which do you pick up first? It's probably a good thing for us that so-called rationalists (tagline: "Why so emotional?") are in the minority, because studies show that without optimism or... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Now Hear This
younger, but I knew I'd probably be a poor man if I made that my career," said Keane, who has done voiceover work for Sprint, Pacific Bell, Hewlett-Packard and others. "Every time I do a voiceover, I think, 'What if my mom could see me... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
rates in some cases that are less than half of what they were a couple of months ago. The hope is that it won’t last long, but it’s going to take quite a long time to dig out of this hole. Tourists will probably return the quickest,... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
to provide them properly in the United States.” Reflecting on the Owner/President Management program that he attended at HBS, Benitez said: “One of the things that probably any OPMer in the world is going to be able to share with you is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
I think this will be the one and only time that I’ll ever be able to say that everybody in the United States of America is my customer. Even back in the day, when I started at Procter & Gamble, it wasn’t 100 percent of households that bought soap. I’m View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
News (February, 13, 2011). Therein lies the broad impact of his “Yella Fella” TV ads, in which Rane stars as the yellow-clad cowboy who saves the West from rotting wood with his pressure-treated pine, known as YellaWood. “They'll probably... View Details