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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
are putting pressure on intermediaries to do more with the companies that they’ve invested in. That’s in both the public and the private markets. And so at this point I don’t think it’s a question of whether... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
tenure, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the nation, and the company, to its core. GE was connected to nearly every part of the tragedy—GE-financed planes powered by GE-manufactured engines had just destroyed real View Details
Arjun Chopra
Arjun Chopra (MBA 2004) is a Partner at FLOODGATE and leads the firm's investments in opportunities that transform the "IT stack" in ways that help companies change the way they do business and compete. Arjun was the CTO at Cambridge... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
DoubleClick last April, WPP quickly countered with the purchase of 24/7 Real Media. Also high on Sorrell's agenda is the subject of corporate social responsibility (CSR)—or global corporate citizenship—which he says was catapulted into... View Details
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
The FBI has ordered Apple’s help unlocking an alleged terrorist’s iPhone. The company has opposed the request and turned to the court of public opinion for help with a verdict. As a House Judiciary Committee... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
private life. These honorees, like their predecessors, are often in the limelight by virtue of their notable accomplishments and high-level positions in the private and public sectors. Curious about the personalities behind the famous... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Working on the Local Level
Aaron Chadbourne (JD/MBA 2010) accepted an offer from Maine’s governor to put his MBA to work tackling some of his home state’s toughest issues—from high taxes and an aging population to business development. In this video, he explains why he chose View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
degree in aerospace engineering and several years at a real estate development and investment firm. But they collaborated on multiple ventures over the last 17 years. The most recent is NowAccount, a fintech... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
children gone into business as well? (JS): We have six children. A couple of them work for me in the real estate business, but Bracken is really the only one following in my footsteps, where he is buying and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
research, please visit www.hbs.edu/healthcare/. We’ve seen real disparity in patient outcomes with this disease. How is the hospital responding to this, and what can we learn from it? PS: This pandemic has really underscored the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
workforce. They have to produce clear policies when the COVID-19 threat diminishes precipitously. A related issue that I am hearing about from companies is centered on how to think about real View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
able to find the diamonds—that's what separates the Warren Buffetts and Seth Klarmans out there. The first person to find the diamond gets the highest rewards." Outsmarting The Public Markets The trick to doing that is the difference... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
indivisibility of residential real estate that prevents homeowners from deleveraging when property values decline and homeowner equity deteriorates, conspire to create a "ratchet" effect in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate of their favorite products: Whither the price and the quality?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
Weiss, a former chief of staff for the mayor of Boston, who now teaches a course at HBS on public entrepreneurship. Hard sell Weiss initially approached Bigbelly looking for a non-technology case about how View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive risk-taking. The bill requires public companies to conduct annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
knowing and being known, and a group of credible employees garnered the company a second round of venture capital. That November infusion of $55 million bought 18-plus months of "runway," Bussgang said, to get beyond the... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
is energized by the growing enthusiasm for social entrepreneurship. "The whole field has evolved in interesting ways, and has expanded from a focus primarily on the work of nonprofits to larger notions of value creation by companies and... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
displayed only in a museum. So, a few years after his retirement from Caldic in 2006, on the site of a historic country estate surrounded by 100 acres of forests, meadows, and sand dunes on the Netherlands’ west coast, he built one.... View Details