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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
companies to source capital — the equity markets exited this business for the most part when oil prices fell to such low levels in 1997 and 1998, and banks slowed down their lending as well." "If smaller companies can grow off an... View Details
- Fast Answer
Field Course: Investing for Impact
commentary from HBS faculty. Demographics, city data, and more: Analyze Boston is the City of Boston's new open data hub, where you can find facts, figures, and maps related to our lives within the city – all in one convenient... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Software 806-121 Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or open source protocols into an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
Using Adventure to Excite Young Minds I have always associated adventure on the high seas with novels like Moby-Dick and Treasure Island, something from the distant past, gone with the golden age of sail. Then Rich Wilson (MBA ’82) opened... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
external solvers through innovation contests, has to decide if it will enable collaboration in its community. Case covers the basics of a distributed innovation system works and the advantages of having external R&D. Links how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
interdisciplinary approach to examining creativity, with perspectives from the fields of sociology, psychology, economics, and history. Of 100 papers submitted for consideration, nine authors were asked to present their work, with topics ranging from “The Airplane as... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
Colombian octogenarian Mariano Ospina-Hernandez (MBA 1951) is the resolute visionary behind an ambitious proposal to improve and expand the country’s transportation infrastructure. His foresight could open new possibilities for... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality. Intimacy shifts the focus from a top-down distribution of information to a bottom-up exchange of ideas. Organizational conversation is less corporate in tone and more casual. And it's less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
or dramatic is equally unknown. Marketers planning for 2009 and 2010 should bear in mind Peter Drucker's wise advice: "A strategy is a sense of direction around which to improvise." Know how you can source supplies and expand View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
on the topic, corporate boardrooms are stuck. The first challenge to adding women to boards is that there are just not enough open board seats to fill and the second is that of the very few open spots (7% of... View Details
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
HBS to create and distribute knowledge, educate future entrepreneurs and executives, and shape global management practices. Revenue from Executive Education, Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), and Harvard Business School Online (HBS... View Details
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
disentangling the underlying factors that impact the success of venture-capital-backed start-ups. The data that lies at the heart of our performance persistence papers was gathered from multiple sources over a three- or four-year period.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
From a professional standpoint, the HBS MBA opens doors that I never knew existed—but they opened because the HBS name speaks for itself. What advice do you have for prospective HBS students? APPLY! I've had... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307070 Nike Inc.: Heading Toward 2010 Harvard Business School Case 207-105 This is a short case (2 pages), which can be distributed and discussed in class as an update through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
governments need most are internal sources of revenue that can then finance their public goods and services – which means a strong local private sector that creates jobs and generates tax revenue. This interest in private sector... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Clean Slate
For the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the pandemic opened up the rare opportunity to rethink “everything we do and how we do it,” says CEO Lisa Wieland (MBA 2001). The independent public authority that owns and operates the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced rule... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace