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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2017
- News
Harvard Business School Makes a Case for Diversity
last week, Rogers said that less than 1 percent of the roughly 10,000 HBS cases focus on a black executive, even though 9 percent of American companies are black-owned. Rogers, who has been teaching at HBS for five years, has set out to View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott, noting that SFP can document up to 30 tons per hectare of carbon dioxide capture at its farms. In addition to capturing carbon dioxide, organic farming cuts down on demand for artificial, petroleum-based fertilizers. “This is the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
Verizon’s move to shift its energy use to 50 percent renewables by 2025, and supply chain programs to increase carbon sequestration through soil health initiatives with companies like Danone and Cargill: “Through photosynthesis, we can sequester enough carbon in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Assets: Memory Full
When Dante Roscini (MBA 1988) arrived on campus in 1986, he and members of his class each became the de-facto owner of an IBM PC Convertible (purchase was mandatory for all incoming students). As conceived by German industrial designer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
become “the guide on the side.” Leaders of the future must admit what they don’t know and seek reverse mentors—more “junior” people who have fresher or just different knowledge. Protection from criticism is another disappearing perk of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
might not be the word everyone would use to describe the daunting tasks of reversing the league’s widespread reliance on deficit spending and leveling the lopsided financial playing field that exists for baseball’s haves and have-nots.... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
jolting of norms to be rule compliant. Finally, we use these principles combined with historical precedent to describe the potential consequences of some recent proposals for governance innovation. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c12045.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
at the Harvard Institute for International Development, gave the keynote address. He noted that between 1986 and 1990 alone, some sixty thousand middle and high-level African managers left their countries of origin. To remedy this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
solvent and that a credible monetary policy will emerge, he said. The country also needs international support, but such aid may be hard to come by now. Asked if converting the Argentine money supply into long-term bonds that people don't... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the investors might get stuck as minority shareholders if it became difficult to sell. In this case, a deal structure with a note convertible to common would allow the investors to View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Advancing Racial Equity
of our community to be their best self,” notes Dean Srikant Datar. The School has earmarked $25 million over the next decade to advance racial equity and diversity at HBS and in the world. As always, the HBS Fund will play an important... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
while creating new jobs more or less commensurate with the skills of the displaced workers. But things have changed since the technology is now able to think as well as perform tasks It is not easy to convert today's manual laborers to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
of their careers.” It’s a matter of nurturing empathy, notes Freyre, and encouraging others—men and women, leaders and coworkers—to do so as well, especially as the pandemic has blurred the line between personal and professional.... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
available—even before the pandemic. That got even tighter this year and when you add the holiday season and the vaccine, it’s a three-layer cake of nasty. The one silver lining is that air passenger travel is way down and some of those planes were View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
of important areas, such as university education, innovation, and entrepreneurship, which means that we have the resources to reverse this trend.” Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
strength to fight back.” "It's hard to imgine a more agonizing situation for a parent," notes Crowley's friend and classmate Sherman Baldwin. "But somehow, John and Aileen have found the strength to fight back." Baldwin is one of a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
automating local telephone operation by converting to dial phones, it had to grapple with the business and societal impact of dramatically reducing human interface. A century later, artificial intelligence, big data, and advancements in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
(initial cost $100, with a $75 annual subscription update fee), plugs it into a computer, and enters basic personal information. The patient then completes a form authorizing his doctors to send records to HRC, which converts them into... View Details