Informal Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2000
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Books

of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

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Sustainable investing and ESG resources

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News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The... View Details

18 Jan 2017
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HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa

Building Cities, spent two weeks in Ethiopia and Tanzania exploring ways the private sector could help finance and operate public infrastructure to achieve better outcomes. In August 2016, in partnership with the Gordon Institute of... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

A Legacy of Investment

5d44e16e230f4261c6f0a40446934d91 A new exhibit at Hawes Hall pays tribute to alumni and friends whose generous financial support has made a lasting difference in the character and quality of HBS. The exhibit aims to illuminate the past and inspire a new generation as... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving,... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Wells to Lead IMD

HBS Professor of Management Practice John Wells (MBA ’79, DBA ’84) has been named the new president of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), in Lausanne, Switzerland, effective this spring. Beginning in the 1980s,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach

efforts of the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business... View Details

September 2018 (Revised January 2020)
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Apple Pay and Mobile Payments in Australia (B)

By: Feng Zhu, Susan Athey and David Lane

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Payment Methods; Mobile Payment; Apple; Banks and Banking; Cooperation; Problems and Challenges; Policy; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry; Australia

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20 May 2008
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Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot

it also aims at Amherst College, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Smith College, Tufts University, Wellesley College, and Williams College. Across the country, 67 other colleges and universities... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Jan 2017
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The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching by the Case Method

substitute for the face-to-face learning that goes on between professors and participants, between participants, among participants, with each other. “I also have a consulting business called the International Case Method Institute... View Details

April 2022
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Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira

In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details

Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America

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03 Apr 2015
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Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Vision for the 21st Century” events in Dallas and Houston as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas was the setting on March 30 for an evening presentation and reception,... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

is another institution other than business and free enterprise that has done more good for humankind," said the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

IV (MBA '66), who has led this august institution for the last twenty years, is neither. In fact, Lazarus claims no formal artistic training beyond auditing a single art history class in college. "When they interviewed me for the... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

13 Dec 2011
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Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How Boeing Competes — James McNerney Jr.... View Details