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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm
giving, recent graduates, international alumni, and HBS Fund Investors Society membership. A graduate of Wellesley College, Anna is chairman of the Spangler Companies, a private investment firm. Tom, who... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
overcome them. In doing so, I suggest that we consider these challenges in terms of internal and external pressures related to both identity and resources. Building on existing research, I then identify four pillars that seem to play a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established firms do appear to prefer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
industries that traditionally invested heavily in salesmen—insurance, automobiles, office machines, branded foods, and pharmaceuticals—did so because they believed salesmen were effective and persuasive in creating demand. American... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
funds had their origin in speculating in international currency markets. Currencies have trends, crises, and turnabouts, all of which makes them ideal for speculation. But rarely does one invest directly in... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
work becomes a fixture in business. The winner is anyone’s guess, says HBS Professor David Yoffie, who co-wrote the case. “It is a dramatic story,” says Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business and... View Details
- December 2009 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Lyondell Chemical Company
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest internationally diversified chemical companies headquartered in The Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Crisis Management; Chemical Industry; Netherlands; United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Lyondell Chemical Company." Harvard Business School Case 210-001, December 2009. (Revised April 2022.)
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below provides an interesting and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
image of raw serenity it presented to the world; yet it took a concerted marketing effort that highlighted these elements in an attractive way to succeed. Prepare to invest money and time. Ten years ago, South Korea set out to remove the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
Scorecard will describe how the unit's investment in people, systems, and culture will drive improvement in processes that create specific, tangible value for its internal customers, the business units.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a cofounding partner and CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
increased during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Diversification gave firms both financing and investment advantages. First, conglomerates became significantly more leveraged relative to comparable focused firms. Second, conglomerates'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Esteves Hall | About
bachelor’s degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and went on to found BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America. With roots in Brazil, BTG Pactual has had an impact not only throughout Latin America but... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years
They’ll open doors to a future career opportunity, introduce you to your significant other, or even help you get that hard-to-find restaurant reservation (this happened to me!). The people are what make this place truly one of a kind, and it’s the best View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
focused on getting news out to media outlets, today's CCO has become an integral part of any enterprise-company, corporation, governmental, and nongovernmental entity. Today's CCO is responsible for internal and external communication;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream capital flows and global imbalances.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship
Justin Ernest (MBA 2019) had interned at Sidewalk Labs. Stan reached out to Justin for coffee and conversation. “He said the culture was great,” Stan says. “Justin had a great experience there working on deals to View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA
HBS scholarship Students can get up to $30,000 in outside scholarships on top of an HBS scholarship While our scholarships can cover a substantial portion of the cost, no one receives a full-ride scholarship from HBS. This is a shared View Details