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- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
frameworks. These challenges underscore the necessity of private intervention. Local utilities will require innovative financing mechanisms and technical assistance. Our site visits offer valuable insights into Mumbai’s ongoing water... View Details
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
multinational and local firms? A: While it's certainly a disheartening outcome on the surface, there are some silver linings. The costs associated with weak institutions are usually hidden—companies that don't go public, financings that... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
projects that are critical to their organization's success. Although building teams from individuals with varied prior experience is increasingly necessary, prior work fails to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
political issues for students, so it fits well with the LCA curriculum.” Cipla’s CEO, Dr. Yusef Hamied, figures prominently in the case. A Cambridge University–educated chemist, Hamied is revered by some for his humanitarian projects... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
his positive college experience, business school became very appealing. “I have always been extremely curious. I have found some success in finance and investing, but in order to get to where I was, I had to neglect a lot of other... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
other alternatives. Sebenius specializes in multiparty negotiations, especially in international, financial, and public-private contexts. With Professor Jay O. Light of the Finance unit and Professor Richard F. Meyer, he is exploring ways... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
805-064 Patrimonio Hoy is a program targeting the housing needs of the low-income population by CEMEX, a major Mexican company and a leading global cement producer. Originally conceived as a project to better understand the customers in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
and relatives in Greece lead better lives than they can afford. Their wages are high, their benefits even higher, and their taxes are low (because, he claims, they avoid paying them). Banks in other countries have to finance Greek... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot was tasked with heading a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
more you try to dictate, the harder it is to inspire creative work." Entrepreneurial Finance Since 1985, when the Entrepreneurial Finance elective was first introduced by William Sahlman, Dimitri V.... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
keep Holly very involved creatively and in fact build the creative team around her. And sometimes, sadly, what often happens with Hollywood adaptations is the first person to get fired from the project is the author. And as a fellow... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
must be profitable to be sustainable. Second, the WDC would take the initiative to target projects in countries that have a good chance of success, where the government is hospitable, the local business community eager for partners, and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing project in the West Bank city of... View Details
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
in play in the day-to-day work of the World Bank, which enabled me to have a much more developed understanding of the World Bank's projects than before. The second year of the program as an RC (Required Curriculum year) at HBS has proved... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
bar and later ran a liquor store. By the time Horn was in the ninth grade, they had moved eight times. While their finances weren’t stable, the family was built on a solid foundation of love. After graduating from Union College, Horn... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
related to finance and marketing. George E. Bates. Polaroid Corporation . Harvard Business School Case 246-006, 1948. Milton P. Brown. Polaroid Corporation: Price a New Product . Harvard Business School Case. J. Keith Butters. The... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
“When Andreya started the project my initial reaction was, you’re going to find that everybody (wants to reduce their tax bill as much as possible)—and she didn’t. So I was thinking, maybe you’re doing something wrong. But it turns out... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Illustration by Peter Arkle Illustration by Peter Arkle Sandra Oh Lin (MBA 2003) has raised enough venture capital for now, thank you very much. Lin is the founder and CEO of KiwiCo, which designs and delivers science and art project kits... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
progress of CityCenter, an $11 billion project in Las Vegas said to be the largest private construction project in the history of the United States. As in the prior observations of this project, issues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne