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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
of doing any business with you? My bank adviser can guarantee higher returns than you can.” Such was the investment climate in India during the spring of 2007 as Dhruv Agarwala and Kartik Varma (both MBA ’02) attempted to get their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Silvers (MBA ’95) illustrates a one-sided picture of the real world of union organizing. This is especially apparent in Silvers’s response to the question, “What’s wrong with secret ballot elections?” According to Silvers, the proposed... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Path and having been awarded a major World Bank grant, several challenges nonetheless remain including regional war and turmoil, sustainable funding, tensions over the Path's activities in Israel, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go work at the View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
surprises. Mainstream economics, however, hides from uncertainty, banishing it to the mystical world of unknown unknowns or reducing it to mechanistic calculation. Its textbooks ignore everyday problems that lack demonstrably correct... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
wave of new business ventures in areas such as microcomputers, software programs, and hardware-related peripheral equipment that has changed the world forever. "During the early '80s, I'd get a lot of business plans from alumni starting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales approaching $2 billion. Airports around... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
sitting next to him: Allen Carpé. Carpé was a World War I veteran and an accomplished research engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories whose exploits included the stormy first ascent of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak. The two men... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
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
- 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
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
sector is dominated by large family-owned banks that can become a barrier to market access. Many emerging markets also have very inefficient supply chains that dramatically hinder the efficiency of a variety of industries. By investing in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Everyone remembers their first real job—in part, because it’s everyone’s first experience with a new and foreign world of work. But it’s also because those first jobs can... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
and I went to college up north, this story found me, literally months before I swore off the city for good. And since that time, let's say, 23 years ago, I have been back countless amounts of time and it sparked a fascination. And I've traveled the View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C.J. Bullock, who promoted Harvard's forecasting service around the world by forming... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
growth that South Africa is leading in the region." The Burden of Geography Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, delivered the first keynote address, a captivating presentation titled "Developing Nations in the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
down from the semicircular banks of seats in Aldrich 9. Price tags (retailers wouldn't have to re-mark them for discounted sales). Billboards. Sheet music (self-turning scores). Eyeglasses with news headlines projected inside the lens... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
young alumni whose stories follow: the chance to make good on making a difference. Andrew Murphy: At the World Wildlife Fund, building consensus at the intersection of conservation issues and global markets: “In places with sensitive... View Details