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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
together to produce “leaders who make a difference not just in the world but for the world.” Leadership Takes Center Stage Just how to make a difference dominated the leadership discussion that opened the summit on Monday. The topic was... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
they need. This can easily lead to "mission creep"—the random accumulation of new goals and tasks as the organization follows funding (rather than its mission)—or to "mission shear"—direct and consistent pressure that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
providing funds for such a large contract asked Last Mile to give up its community training piece as part of the proposal. In the end, Panjabi turned down that contract, but ended up consulting on community training anyway. “It’s an... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
shareholder funds or as trying to subvert democratic institutions, she said. She suggested, however that there are three reasons to at least explore the topic including: Growing global corruption, particularly when business gets close to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
meanwhile, climbed from $16.2 billion to $33 billion in that same period, riding the GLP-1 wave. Novo Nordisk’s valuation has shot up to almost $600 billion, which is more than the entire Danish GDP. And the top of the curve is still out of view: The View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
reliable, and understood. Today, that landscape has been upended, and in its place a “C-Scape” has emerged: a world where consumers, not producers and marketers, make the choices; where content, not distribution, is king; where curation... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
$649B in stimulus funds to small businesses. We are targeting these funds to underserved communities and critical supply chains. Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021), Lucas Santos (MBA 2022) and Truc Nguyen (MBA... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
venture capital and private equity by announcing the Vision Fund, the largest tech investment fund in the world at close to $100 billion. The reputation of legendary SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son depended on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Ann Chao
was one in which a school of massage therapy offered free training for blind students who went on to work in massage clinics, which funded the school. “I was intrigued by the private-sector approach – a way to address problems from the... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social Structure: The Emergence and... View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
work prestige. And in Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men, we discover, with regret, that VC prefers to give money to men—and good looking men at that. But sometimes business glory goes to those who succeed the old-fashioned... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
itch. This year, for the first time, the program expands to four individuals whose lives and experiences show what different roads the entrepreneurial journey can take. “Students are hungry for the kind of perspective they can get from people who have one or both feet... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB
qualifications, technical skills, and networks required for the job. I thought to myself, “if students at Harvard Business School - one of the leading feeders for venture capital/private equity roles in the world - are facing this level... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
is one way they hope to bring the outside world closer. “We’ve recently tripled our digital bandwidth,” Condo says. Also on the table is the creation and funding of knowledge-sharing partnerships with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
operations officer—had just been killed. “What do you want to do?” General Medina asked. “I’m going to start a car company.” “What? What do you know about starting a car company?” Rogers had been obsessively reading the book Winning the Oil Endgame, which laid out how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
and university infrastructure,” he says. “We need to learn better how to exploit that advantage and how to grow new businesses out of it. Once worlds apart and unto themselves, businesses have become involved in the pursuit of science and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
stock picker, Generation doesn’t artificially constrain its choices, and the performance of the firm at this time would suggest that its returns can be competitive with traditional global equity funds whose returns are tracked in relation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
Last year, St. Louis, Missouri, saw its beloved Cardinals open a new stadium, win the World Series, and unveil plans for a $650 million “Ballpark Village” that will change the face of the city’s downtown. Meet the father-son team behind... View Details