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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment
He discussed the growing fragility of the insurance market in the face of worsening climate events and called attention to the increasing number of U.S. regions becoming "uninsurable." Jones advocated for integrating risk-reducing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live, work, or travel in Asia; that's the View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
Globalization hasn't made manufacturing clusters obsolete, but the geographically concentrated pockets of industry have to be smart to ensure their survival, according to new research from Harvard Business School. Gary P. Pisano, the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
Adapting to the Future”, the conversation flowed through the supply chain where panelist Daniel Betts , Co-Founder and CEO of Blue Frontier , emphasized that we’re “working with technology that is ripe for change.” During "Learning from the Global South," attendees... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
industry entirely. Instead, the Miami native went home after graduation to join an upstart agency that seemed interested in doing things a little differently. At the time, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) had a View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- April 2010
- Case
The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview
By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and Lisa Brem
This case examines the causes and consequences of the credit crisis of 2008 from a national and global perspective and explores the actions taken and proposed by the U.S. and European governments. View Details
Keywords: Credit; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Globalized Economies and Regions; Global Strategy; Mortgages; Performance Effectiveness; Financial Services Industry; United States
Narayanan, V.G., Fabrizio Ferri, and Lisa Brem. "The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview." Harvard Business School Case 110-048, April 2010.
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
that suppliers that extend significant amounts of trade credit hold private information about their trade partners. Trade creditors who are geographically closer or in similar industries tend to lend the most, suggesting that these are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Casey, Comcast's New England Region general manager, transformed a low commitment and performance organization. When he took charge of this Comcast region he inherited an organization that was bureaucratic,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
An Interview with Associate Director, Phillip Andrews
travelling to these regions to meet with organizations that are interested in hiring the many HBS students and alumni seeking roles outside of the U.S. What is a highlight of the year for you? September and October – the first two months... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
but with outside technology and partnerships across industries as well. “He mixed and matched these elements brilliantly, of course, infused the remix with Apple’s unique design sensibility, and created a new business model that totally... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
"General Doriot selected the name Manufacturing because he believes this activity is the hard core of our great industrial strength and one of the foundations of our business system....He believes that one can find great creative... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
ecosystems and the issues that startups in developed markets face when expanding globally, highlighting the areas of context that affect the decisions of players in the sector. These areas will be highlighted in six modules which include differences in View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private-sector and military... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
toward its $100 million goal. The first round of grants, totaling $1 million, was awarded to 20 local and regional organizations, with a focus on addressing urgent racial justice or pandemic-related challenges. Inaugural recipients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the competition in health care has been... View Details