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11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

people visiting our website per day (and that may have just been our parents checking out our website!), but once word began to spread about our services, we were quickly up to several hundred hits per day and the traffic only grew from... View Details

Profile

Chris Hurst

deployed to Kuwait and Egypt, where he worked with international partners and supported the flow of engineer troops and materiel into the Middle East. These experiences, plus a subsequent civilian role View Details

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

together. What's more, knowing whether two congressional members went to the same college can help predict the outcome of pending legislation on the Senate floor. “And so we got to thinking, if a school connection makes information flow... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

22 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

identifying the types of GPs that drive the identified correlation between GPs and reduced shareholder value. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1718488 August 2013 American Journal of Managed Care... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

Market Maps Explore relevant Frost & Sullivan reports: The Future of Mental Health Management Emerging Digital Health Technology Innovations Transforming Mental Health Care Growth Opportunities in Mental and Behavioral Digital Health... View Details

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Amy Sennett

especially for the poorest of the poor at the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid.” As vice chair of the Club’s Microfinance and Social Investment Group, she “looks at ways global capital can flow to places where it can have make a social... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Shareholders' Value?

Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one... View Details

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Preview the Harvard Business School Online Learning Experience

E-Book Expand your knowledge by learning about the differences between finance and accounting and the skills all managers need. Download for Free Business Essentials E-Book Enhance your business knowledge to make an impact on your... View Details

January 2011
Case

Masdar and Tianjin: Eco-Cities

By: John D. Macomber

Compares Masdar City and Tianjin Eco-City, two high profile "sustainable cities." Each showcases technological and financial innovation. Is it real? Is it replicable and defensible? The case is intended to introduce main concepts and tradeoffs with respect to rapid... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Model; Development Economics; Urban Development; Cash Flow; Project Finance; Competitive Advantage; Environmental Sustainability; City; Infrastructure

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Educators

30 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

kind. That's the consensus among those responding to my recent questions concerning the future of the best and brightest of the Internet entrepreneurs still in business who have yet to achieve cash flow breakeven. As Yung-Hi Lim put it,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

ED. We propose that the dedicated queuing system yielded shorter throughput times because it provided physicians with greater ability and incentive to manage their patients' flow through the ED from arrival... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Case

International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities

By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman

In late 2007, EcoSecurities had to decide whether to undertake a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China. EcoSecurities was an aggregator of carbon credits and also invested directly in projects that produced carbon credits. Governments and firms... View Details

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Cost Management; Investment Return; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Cash Flow; Valuation; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; China

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Educators

Purchase

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: John Doerr

company where she was working as an engineer — Intel. After marrying Ann and six successful years in various engineering, marketing, and management positions at the chipmaker, Doerr joined Kleiner Perkins in 1980. His impressive list of... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Transition”, Francis O’Sullivan , Managing Director of S2G Ventures , and Ely Sandler , HKS Research Fellow, explored how we can finance the climate transition using innovative tools, while simultaneously addressing the associated risks.... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Road Work

accelerates the decision-making process.” The education and insights flow both ways. Every quarter, Camino releases a research report based on survey data from its loan applicants and documents emerging macroeconomic trends in the Latinx... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 Jan 2016
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

opportunity to combine my interests in art and finance by working for an asset management firm where I helped to establish a group focused on financial services for the art community. We worked with museums, artist foundations, artists,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entertainment / Media / Sports

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

across medicine. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52286 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long-Run Survival By: Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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