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June 2001 (Revised December 2006)
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Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Gillian D Elcock

Set in the context of the rise and fall of the Internet stocks in the United States. View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Price Bubble; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States

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12 Nov 2014
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A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

from the left and the right, set out to do just that. For the last two and a half years, we co-chaired the Commission's Mortgage Finance Reform Working Group. Remarkably, we saw consensus emerge from both parties on the goals of the new system. We made it as far as the... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

Business Administration Jonas O. Meckling Visiting Fellow Featured Research Publications A Concise Business Guide to Climate Change: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know Trumbull, G. (Forthcoming). Harvard Business Review Press. How View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

project's early stages. It would organize the interface with supporting institutions such as the World Bank and the UNDP, and with local business partners. And since the WDC would have NGO representation on its board, it would assure NGO... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 Apr 2016
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Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Banking; Banking

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Danelle Radney

Minnesota Christian groups “into one organization with centralized governance so that we could leverage our resources together.” She had already turned a summer merchandising internship at Target – “where I was the youngest intern, at... View Details

April 2009
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Drawing Links Between Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and The United States Circa 1910

By: Aldo Musacchio

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Networks; Banks and Banking; Business History; Brazil; Mexico

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Kathleen Hebert

dealerships throughout Canada." As an undergraduate student in Kingston, Ontario, Kathleen "focused on marketing while developing my understanding of business fundamentals." She spent one summer as a marketing intern with BMW Canada and another with the... View Details

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

Publications "From Visible Harm to Relative Risk: Centralization and Fragmentation of Pharmacovigilance Author: Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication: Chap. 13 in The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care, Oxford University Press, 2010... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai

Raised in Mumbai and Delhi, Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA ’82) went away to school in Simla, in the Himalayas, and has conducted her career at similarly lofty heights ever since. A Delhi University alumna and the first Indian woman to graduate from HBS, Kidwai joined ANZ... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

27 Sep 2024
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Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

may help explain why some consumers may think that prices are ‘too high’: not just relative to the past, but also relative to more expensive varieties,” the authors write. You Might Also Like: Central Banks... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua

21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

information is a central determinant of a firm's demand function, even for purchases as large as college attendance. When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship Authors:Sonali Shah and Mary Tripsas... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

them by favoring reform based on central government control rather than the forces of competition, meritocracy, and individual accountability. Let me be clear about one thing: the previous government, as most previous governments, failed... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

attempting to grow its customer base by increasing the number of new checking accounts. Like many banks, Central saw checking accounts as an important tool for customer acquisition and loyalty-building. However, the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

knowledge of the focal actor's past behavior-is determined by the proximity of the two and by their centrality in the interorganizational network. Interpretation-the alter's processing of that knowledge to make inferences about the focal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

01 Mar 2006
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The Producers

Martin Scorsese. But a producer? What do they do, anyway? Part of the confusion lies in the burgeoning number of credits (executive producer, coproducer, co–executive producer ) that have become a familiar part of a film’s opening moments. With that said, the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

September 2014 (Revised March 2022)
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Samuel Colt: An American Gun Maker

By: Tom Nicholas and Casey Verkamp

Samuel Colt not only perfected and patented the technology for a gun that could fire multiple times without reloading, but he also developed and applied early principles of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the nineteenth century,... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Positioning; Machinery and Machining; Production; Independent Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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