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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
be well suited for the study of history. In 2006 he began developing the elective Creating the Modern Financial System, to examine the intersection of the financial sector and government in shaping financial history through a series of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
resource capacity that are necessary to fulfill the sales and production needs of the strategic plan. Without this coupling, operational plans either provide too little or too much capacity for the strategic plan. A third challenge is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
regulation as a factor in the financial crisis. In a 2017 survey by the Initiative for Global Markets at the University of Chicago School of Business, academics ranked financial sector regulation and supervision as the most important... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
experienced negotiators make mistakes in all three dimensions. Let us start with the least familiar kind of mistake. Flaws in our third dimension, the set-up of a negotiation, can take many forms: wrong parties, wrong issues, wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
in Baker Library’s Historical Collections reveals a case study of Boston-area residential finance in the 1920s and 30s. In the early 1920s, Somerville entrepreneur Edmond M. Cremen moved into real estate finance from auto sales, another View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
owners (and their investors and lenders) in all sectors will have to both outfit their buildings to measure components of public health and also respond to their occupants doing their own assessments. This might be disconcerting, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
from B2B sales to a consumer-focused business plan. The shift allowed Nyamumbo to more fully realize her initial goal of connecting producer and consumer. According to Nyamumbo, payments through Kahawa’s QR code average $5—about a third... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
critical role in global society. In the lead-up to COP26, the Business & Environment Initiative asked HBS alumni business leaders from a wide range of sectors and disciplines what they see as the role of business and business leaders in... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals
degrees that are popular in the private sector combines a significant list of career options that the typical transitioning veteran seeks to preserve through the transition process pending a final decision about what path to take. ... View Details
- 02 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to the JD/MBA Program
interested in international policy, spent several summers working in government, and thought law school would be a good fit. After working for a few years, I became interested in corporate social responsibility because I like working in the private View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
prodding entrepreneurial people to enter the public sector or even just to invent for the public realm." “Government should be naturals at crowdsourcing” Government entrepreneurship takes many forms. There are "public-public... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
meeting, make a presentation, and give performance feedback. The third theme was the need for MBAs to develop a better sense of the realities of organizations within which leaders operate. Politics—issues of power, coalitions, and hidden... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
year to the second. The segment now has a dedicated trade association and big expectations to meet: Global Market Insights predicts the sector will reach $30 billion by 2025. Mariah Wood (left) and Vanessa Royle (Courtesy Tilden... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
people look at is “graduating MBAs.” About 5 percent are going directly into the nonprofit and government sectors. But that is a single snapshot. If you looked at our alumni over time, it would be a vastly larger number. Right now, a View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
regional trade and regional integration by facilitating connections between entrepreneurs from the various countries and also helping them expand more easily to other markets. “And the third priority at Suguba is really to enhance and... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
projects the private sector was planning to do on its own. The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933 is perhaps the most famous example of this. Other dollars appear to indirectly crowd out private firms by hiring away employees and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
covering basic facts about the country and legal questions about travel from the United States. (“Which is still legal,” says Gordon, noting that the misconception is widespread.) But most of what Benedetti lays out about the challenges he faces operating in Cuba’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
to deepen its understanding of the complexities and constraints of the sector while ferreting out what works. Cases are set in various markets including the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Latin America. A third of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Faculty cochair V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan, a newly tenured professor when he became the SEI's first head, recalls, "We decided on a broad scope of inquiry. For us, understanding managerial challenges within the non-profit sector was a... View Details
Keywords: SEI