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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Scientist 52, no. 6 (2009): 885-904 Abstract This article provides a critical reflection on the heavily normative nature of current accountability debates. In particular, it explores three streams of normative discourse on nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
extraordinary scramble for natural resources in Africa and elsewhere that, to Western eyes, had an unnervingly imperial undertone. Only the “flight to safety” of foreign investors into dollars in the latter... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
sections. The first section defines project finance and contrasts it with other well-known financing mechanisms. The second section describes the evolution of project finance from its beginnings in the natural View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
goals, what their internal and external constraints are, and where they can improve. Find the resources you need. Discuss the information, budget, tech, and networks that you and your teammates need to reach the team’s goals. If you don’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for environmental education that... View Details
- March 2018
- Case
Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal
By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti
After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal, decides to play a pivotal role in rebuilding the country. The Group's philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Resource Allocation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Natural Disasters; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Banking Industry; Auto Industry; Real Estate Industry; Travel Industry; Nepal
Malloy, Christopher J., Lauren H. Cohen, and Inakshi Sobti. "Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal." Harvard Business School Case 218-100, March 2018.
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies across and within activities vary by activity and type of organic expansion; and (4) across-activity internal economies are asymmetric. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-025.pdf Entrepreneurship in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
performance in R&D projects that involve multiple partners? To address this question, we examine the theoretical underpinnings of collaboration structures in multi-partner R&D projects-i.e., the scale and the scope of partnering efforts. Partnering scale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
the way we were. I had developed a strategy of get smaller, get bigger, or M&A, and we tried all three of them. M&A was sort of natural to us. Bob Carney and I were financial guys to some extent, and we weren't afraid of the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
out: “Stand well with the trade & are in high credit.”[5] The personal nature of some of these details, and the fact that an individual had no access to his or her report, made Dun and other agencies vulnerable to criticism. The Irish... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
environment strategies. They also acknowledged the difficult challenge inherent in balancing the effort needed to achieve these goals with the central need to generate profit. "There's this natural tension," said Douglas Conant, former... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced in the past. Despite recognition's centrality to strategic choice, we have limited knowledge of its nature and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
deeply personal. In 2021, wind and solar comprised 70% of new U.S. generating capacity additions, with natural gas accounting for just 16%. Diana specifically cited Lazard’s analysis of the relative costs of unsubsidized energy sources,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
learn to recognize and build their leadership capital—the resources and influence needed to realize their goals, says Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones. In his recently released book, The Treasure You Seek: A Guide... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
fail to spend sufficient time learning to understand ourselves and creating our own definition of success? The truth is, it can seem so natural and so much easier to just do what everyone else is doing-for now-leaving it for later to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
find that patents applied for by firms in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and are more concentrated in the most important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
full-service international passenger model with a premium air-cargo business model while separately operating a no-frills passenger model for domestic flights. LAN's multi-model success comes from recognizing the complementarity of its two high-end services and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
the few instances that they are, the data are not standardized, not interoperable, and not readily accessible to clinicians, researchers, or policymakers. While such barriers to easy health information exchange are hardly unique to India, the greenfield View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
concludes: Support employees’ progress in their work every day. Set clear and meaningful goals for them; provide direct help, versus hindrance; offer adequate resources and time; respond to successes and failures by drawing on the... View Details