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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

information, to want more market research, or to be paralyzed by uncertainty and ambiguity. Leaders rarely have this luxury. That’s why, in the case discussions that are the central component of the education we offer at Harvard Business... View Details

05 Dec 2017
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What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

countries? Khanna: Geoff and I, with Cheng Gao and Tiona Zuzul, wrote a piece on reputation as being central to how these iconic leaders have built country-reshaping enterprises. It’s a fun piece, now published in a leading academic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2001
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Gurus in the Garage

the individual but eventually brought ruin to all. The culture of Silicon Valley turns that system on its head. The bank of expertise in Silicon Valley represents a triumph of the commons: resources are extracted and replenished in a... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

06 Mar 2018
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whose demographic characteristics, and in turn needs, diverge more starkly from those of their bank’s average customers report significantly lower levels of satisfaction on a broad range of operating dimensions. Consistently, we find that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2009
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multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2015
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Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better health outcomes delivered at lower... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
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http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

January 2025
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Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli

In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details

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Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,... View Details

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By: Geoffrey G. Jones

I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

14 Dec 2011
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The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

worked in our favor was that we had developed multiyear financial forecast models. We were dealing with bank workout teams, which is very rugged. But because we had that information, we stunned them. They didn't expect that coming from a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with customers and breadth of audiences. The paper further points to key aspects of resource integration in a co-marketing partnership. Design /... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

Street wins, tails Main Street loses formula that defines the relationship between Wall Street and Main Street. Moreover, government facilitates this order for the superrich in times of boom, and bails them out in times of bust. Today, we have government of banks, for... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

15 Jul 2008
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Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed-income markets, many... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2015
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Abstract—A central prediction of information economics is that market forces can lead businesses to voluntarily provide information about the quality of their products, yet little voluntary disclosure is observed in the field. In this... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2010
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School Case 510-033 Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details

16 Nov 2009
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The Times Captures History of American Business

creative destruction move so fast and forcefully across the landscape as that ushered in by the financial crisis of 2008. Beginning in the United States, this crisis took the capital markets and the larger global banking system to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy. The strategy map reveals the strategic chain of cause-and-effect relationships that eventually links investment in employee skills to improved financial performance. As the senior executive of a major bank declared: Partnering... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

Gurus in the Garage

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

First Look: April 7, 2009

First Look: March 3

First Look: April 24

Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

Overview

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

October 20, 2015

Letters to the Editor

First Look: July 15, 2008

First Look: April 21

First Look: July 20

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

The Times Captures History of American Business

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard