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25 Jan 2024
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Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

especially given the $783 billion in pump priming provided by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. “I hope these initiatives are successful in both accelerating the green transition and revitalizing the American job market... View Details

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Enrico Ferrari

Born and raised in a small northern Italian town, Enrico Ferrari was the first in his family to attend college. Driven by an entrepreneurial mindset and a desire to write his own destiny, Enrico moved to Berlin, where he joined an ad technology startup. Enthusiastic... View Details

Keywords: Tech

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 Author:Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract This paper examines the effect of government intervention via taxation on domestic welfare. A case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

age of 88. Chandler was perhaps best known for his book The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1978. In it, Chandler argued that management, a visible hand, had in some ways replaced Adam Smith’s... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

Buyers and sellers in mature industrial markets can turn single transactions into long-term beneficial relationships by a deeper understanding of the complex connection between the two, says Harvard Business School professor Narakesari... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

13 $1,850 Certificate Global Business Professor Forest Reinhardt Understand how decisions affect markets and business on a global scale and prepare for the political, social, and economic factors driving change. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

within the next seven years. He sees growth potential in international sales, a new line for women, and licensing categories such as fragrance and footwear. Other ventures that fall under his purview include Justin’s restaurants, with locations in New York and Atlanta;... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

Stanley as a powerful presence in the world of global finance. After graduating from Princeton in 1957 at the age of 20, Fisher worked for a time in the university's admissions office and as a trainee at the Insurance Company of North... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

London, and as various companies subsumed these and other lines, they came to dominate a geographic area. Companies competing for territory would sometimes build duplicate tracks, resulting in an inefficient system of surplus lines. By the 1860s, as the London capital... View Details

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Feb 2010
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Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

relocation of resources in affected fund families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51404 forthcoming Review of Finance... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

February 2020
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Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Vincent Dessain and Emer Moloney

Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L’Oréal. He is now responsible for the hiring, development, promotion, and retention of 83,000 employees worldwide. The highly successful... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Business Headquarters; Business Divisions; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Diversity; Gender; Nationality; Multinational Firms and Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Management; Jobs and Positions; Employment; Human Capital; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Networks; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Business Strategy; Advertising Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; France; Paris

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Harvard Business School

Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit ALUMNI INTRODUCTION BACK TO THE EXHIBIT H. Naylor Fitzhugh MBA 1933 H. Naylor Fitzhugh joined the Howard University faculty in 1934 and stayed for 31 years, developing the university's View Details

01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021), who previously worked at Boston Consulting Group and has a background in the technical side of supply chain management, created Syrup Tech, a predictive software that drives inventory excellence, powered by... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776, helped create the discipline of economics with its conjuring of the invisible hand, self-interest, and other explanations of market forces that have influenced academics,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan... View Details