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- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG).... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
“it was extremely difficult to make a profit on early-stage investments,” says Cohen. In 1989, he opted for a “balanced” strategy, adding corporate buyouts to the firm’s early-stage investments. It’s a strategy that distinguishes Apax... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
out of those excesses, and that means several years of negative returns. All of my clients have had to readjust their assumptions regarding risks and returns. Your clients are extremely wealthy. Do they take that readjustment in stride?... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition
reduce its net carbon footprint and gain knowledge to scale Shell’s new energy business. Being part of these endeavors that have such a positive impact on our planet has been extremely fulfilling and inspiring. 2. Sharpening financial... View Details
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VCPE Database Comparison | Baker Library
Strong Standard Verticals Strong Solid Strong for tech related verticals None. Recommend using keyword search in Business Description Geographic Granularity Zip level City level City Level Zip level Downloading Extremely limited (10 rows... View Details
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5.3 Community Standards Outcomes & Sanctions | MBA
permanently ended by vote of the HBS faculty (a two-thirds majority of those present at a meeting or voting electronically); the action taken by the CRB is a vote of mandatory withdrawal with a recommendation to the HBS faculty that the student be expelled. It is the... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
and wastewater systems of varying size, the majority of which are extremely small. Those systems—some investor owned, others government operated—have a variety of governance structures and infrastructures that are decades old. This... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
default are not encouraging. There is a mistaken view that these countries fared well after these actions were taken. In fact, acommodity boom helped Argentina reignite its economy, but not before extreme hardships took their toll—imports... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
managers at the expense of investors and tax authorities.” My comments below provide an overview of the financial and tax accounting systems and their treatment of incentive compensation. Independently, the topics of financial accounting, tax accounting, and stock... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
three things. First, we were starting an advisory business in mergers and acquisitions. Second, we were going to start a principal investing activity, what you’d now call private equity. And third, we were going to try to attract View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
site who has lived that turnaround experience and done it with confidence would be extremely powerful." —Carl Christopher ON- AND OFF-LINE LEARNING "The US education system is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
An internment camp for German citizens in England. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo Global enterprises that do business in emerging economies face significant political risks—in extreme cases, imprisonment of their civilian employees during... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
leaders on work, "it is extremely naive to expect that stereotypical ideas about what women in general are like will have any meaning for the behavior of women in senior management positions. Women who arrive in such positions will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
lead a discussion about a woman who is taking over a senior executive position from a man who was extremely successful and popular. Cynthia Montgomery will talk about creating advantage through corporate and sector-level strategy. EE: Any... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
but the core components remain extremely effective. The curriculum resonates strongly with course participants because it deals with exactly the kinds of issues professional service firm leaders face daily. As in all HBS courses, we... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
international products often fail to accommodate the local nuances of climate, traffic, and regulatory dynamics. Log 9's commitment to customizing battery technology for the extreme heat and humid conditions common in India’s environment... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
workers smashed the delegation's cars and surrounded the small group. “It was an extremely tense situation. I thought maybe this was going to be the end,” says Djelic. “I told them violence was no answer, and all we could do was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
http://media.swissre.com/documents/pub_risk_dialogue_Integrative_Risk_Management.pdf Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009 Authors:Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne