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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
securities. "In 2004 and 2005 as these subprime loans started to emerge, it really wasn't a particular problem because of the lag effect, because people who couldn't pay off these mortgages with toxic... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
wellbeing and advancement she nurtured. Inge Reethof remembered that “Everyone who would come to [Morse], with their shoulders hunched, came out 10 feet tall as if their problems were solved. . . . I respected her enormously and she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
entrepreneurial interests as two separate threads that came together in 2020.When I was at UCLA, I studied molecular biology. After deciding to not pursue medicine and feeling paralyzed by my career outlook, my dad recommended I take a programming class. What View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
"actively trained and encouraged and supported for being human.” A clean start or one built on one or more existing initiatives? Government regulation or industry self-regulation? A government agency led by a czar or some kind of... View Details
- Student-Profile
Omar Olivarez
wanted my career to go.” Omar appreciates the incredible diversity of perspectives within the Technology and Operations Management unit at HBS. “We can get feedback and critiques from colleagues who approach problems from so many... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
solid theory of what role NASA will play. And the best place to start building that theory is with NASA’s current flagship program: Artemis. Class session 8: Special session with space entrepreneurs Summary: Panel to be announced Part... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
implemented by Radiometer since its acquisition by Danaher in 2004 and I’ve seen how much it infiltrates every aspect of how they do work. (There is an HBS case about it!) Overall, the job has gotten off to a great start and I can’t... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
began researching ideas for my new company, I decided I would start something new in Japan: an Internet company, specifically Internet shopping. Many advised me against this. This was the ‘90s and many big companies had tried and failed... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
client-facing people when service problems are systematically tolerated. The cape starts to feel heavy when it's overused. Great service, it turns out, is not made possible by running the business harder and... View Details
- 24 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort
at Merck in their Screening and Protein Sciences Department. There, we ran tests to identify potential therapeutic candidates. Through this research, I started to see the link between bench science and the impact that science can have on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
especially in Europe and Japan — are also starting to issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainability reports. Sometimes these are mailed with the annual report, but more often they have to be ordered separately or... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 08 May 2025
- Blog Post
Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)
friction in development processes—translating to $85 billion in lost global GDP. Quotient discovers the top areas of friction that slow down engineering teams, and leverages AI to resolve it directly. Did you always want to start a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic failure? This roundtable discussion, moderated by Professor Krishna Palepu, sought answers and suggested some corrective measures. Highlights of the conversation follow. Krishna Palepu: Let's View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
at the end of the intensive three-week module, one student compared the experience to running a marathon. "First we stretched, then we warmed up, and then we ran," is how Dwayne Romero (HBS '97) described his nine-and-a-half-hour days filled with classes, cases, View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
different, in a valuable way, from what’s been done before. In the arts, creativity is an expression of an issue or problem the artist was grappling with. In business, it is producing novel, workable solutions to View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
“Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems”. Feedback from the students was very positive. Lauren Buchanan (MBA 2021) shared a key theme that she learned from taking the course: “Investors are really starting to pay attention to... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first... View Details