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  • May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Teaching Note

Lincoln Financial Meets the Financial Crisis (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen
Teaching Note for 310137. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Decisions; Capital; Cost; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Insurance; Insurance Industry
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  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Harvard Business School faculty offer their views: Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Geoff Jones, who researches the evolution, impact, and responsibility of global business and has authored numerous books on these topics, including Multinationals and Global... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • 19 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding Purpose in Profit

investors and our society. This is what Michael Porter refers to as ‘shared value.’ I believe in the power of capitalism and the power of human ingenuity to get us out of the holes we’ve dug for ourselves.”... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear weapons and destroy... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Books

how individuals can capitalize on the new, equal-opportunity economy and all of its exciting possibilities. Davis and Meyer describe a world in the not-so-distant future in which we will trade everything of value -- including View Details
  • July 2024
  • Case

Freelancer, Ltd.

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Freelancers; Labor Markets; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Change Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Employment; Global Range; Employment Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

WATER Ltd.

in “water-stressed” countries, where either the quantity or the quality of water supplies will have sunk to levels ranging from inadequate to economically crippling. At the same time, another valuable water-infrastructure system, the environment, is in steep decline... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

    Uncovering the roots of innovation

    with key actors in the local ecosystem. I am deeply grateful to the scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legal experts and policymakers who generously shared their extraordinary experiences in building the local life sciences industry. These conversations... View Details
    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

    across the country. It is no surprise to most that human activities are taking a toll on the composition of Earth’s atmosphere. These changes have been linked to not only adverse reactions in environmental systems, but also significant... View Details
    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

    and 2021 that were compiled by Capital IQ. The research team matched those transactions to financial data supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, as well as information on IT spending provided by Aberdeen Strategy & Research. Finally, they... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 06 Nov 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: November 6

    Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jun 2021
    • News

    Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

    Disease Control and Prevention, declared racism a serious public health threat. Shell is a coalition builder and a longtime observer of “where human capital is invested and where it isn’t.” He grew up in New... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • 01 Mar 2016
    • News

    Ink

    movement. “When we feel powerless or subordinate, we constrict our posture, tightening, wrapping, and making ourselves smaller,” she writes. Cuddy is among a growing number of HBS faculty using scientific methods and behavioral science to study how the View Details
    • 18 Mar 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

    to be sure, but as Wilcox explained and E Ink's experience made clear, its prospects depend on a welter of fundamentally human choices. Twenty minutes after Sahlman's finance students finished dissecting E Ink and one floor up in Aldrich... View Details
    Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
    • 06 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

    combinations of herbs and synthetic compounds that were less similar to the prior art and apt to be less contestable. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46704 Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on... View Details
    • 29 Jan 2021
    • News

    Holding Business to Account

    before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s... View Details
    • 09 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 9

    Papers The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, emerging-market... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2018
    • News

    After the Fall

    of overoptimism during good times and overpessimism in bad times. So how do you design a financial system around human nature? “I would want to build in extra margins of safety,” he says. As an example, perhaps financial firms should be... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
    • 08 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 8

    investments across time and as they move between firms. We find evidence of skill and exit style differences even among venture partners investing at the same VC firm at the same time. Furthermore, our estimates suggest the partner's View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2020
    • News

    Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

    Professor Rebecca Henderson, Photo credit: Susan Young Rebecca Henderson is worried about the current state of capitalism in America. The noted economist says that increasing global crises and challenges to democracy are posing some of... View Details