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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the emerging enterprises he believed represented the greatest areas of growth. An early supporter of the aviation industry, Robert served on the board and was a backer of Pan American Airways Corporation, which started with flights to... View Details

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

external watchdogs—security analysts, credit-rating agencies, and regulatory agencies—fail to bark? What actions can prevent Enron-type breakdowns in the future? Innovation Corrupted addresses each of these... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

versus a "top dog," a well-endowed competitor with superior resources or market dominance, and tremendous passion and determination to succeed despite the odds. The underdog's View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

“Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times.” "Leaders must be willing to ask for help," he continues. "They should rely on a mentor, an View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

customers, and broader communities to deal with these and other societal consequences on their own. How, we will ask, can firms think about internalizing or addressing these... View Details

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

the global financial system, environmental degradation, and inadequate government and international institutions are just a few of the forces that threaten to disrupt global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

North of their organization: its mission, values, and strategy. They should create clarity around this True North and refuse to let external events pull them off course or... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

sweet. 310 pages. You can read it in a weekend. Skydeck is the Harvard Business School alumni podcast, featuring interviews and insights from across the world of business. It’s produced by the External... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

explicit goal of creating social value, but they have to mobilize resources from external sources. Leadership style. "For good governance you need continuity," said Reficco. "You need some degree of overlap between... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Gallatin Hall | About

reinforcing the independence of the Treasury, Gallatin also was responsible for the 1801 law that required the treasury secretary to submit an annual report to Congress documenting debts, expenditures, loans, View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Intelligence Analyst at Ministry of Justice New Zealand. I'm leading a few modelling and reporting projects across the Ministry using the knowledge I gained from the course. Hi n Nguy n Th Business... View Details

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

It's a sad, quantitative fact that bribery runs so rampant in the world that it has become a Darwinian business tool. A July 2013 report from Transparency International finds that more than one in four... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Finance "This course is about the big ideas of finance, and how they map the most important business and life decisions people make." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection.... View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

model," they write. Among the features of the approach they recommend, which is currently being used by organizations in a range of industries and countries, are the following: Goals based on longer-term View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

31 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Transitioning From the Military to Business School

and squeeze more out of the HBS experience than I otherwise could have. What has been the hardest part about the transition? For me, one of the most difficult parts of transitioning from the military to HBS was learning to rely on View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

departments stemmed from the recognition that economics, at the time, had no interest in one of management's most pressing concerns—namely, the internal organization of the firm. When experimentation with various disciplines—including... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

evaluated before his departure, and he recorded his every move in sales reports and receipts. Sales managers at large corporations assigned salesmen specific territories View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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Industry Information - Alumni

Association of Realtors Data from the National Association of Realtors - topical sections include government affairs, research, law and policy, technology, and education. The Research section has data View Details

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What Black Executives Really Want

what organizations are actually doing. Many people have good intentions and many companies have DEI programs but those are not translating into real impact. Other studies bear this out. Most consulting firms View Details

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