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  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

stability benefits. Subordinated capital provides MMFs with loss absorption capacity, lowering the probability that an MMF suffers losses large enough to trigger a run and reduces incentives to take excessive risks. Other reform alternatives based on market forces,... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit

importance of balancing cost and geopolitics. In their corporate video, Tata Solar underscored their role in transforming rural India through innovative solar solutions, such as solar water pumps and floating solar projects, which provide... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

annually and acquired 15 million customers—more than a third of the country’s population—within five years of launch. A woman checks her mobile phone at a floating market in the Mekong River, Vietnam. Mobile phone use is widespread in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

New Wave

Shendure, who stepped down as CEO in 2016 but continues to serve as chair of the company’s board. The Oscilla team therefore abandoned its original approach and began modifying off-the-shelf generators for use with its Triton system. The generators are packed into a... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

holders for your stock because they do not trade much. Getting back to Japan, the stock splits can be thought of a form of float manipulation. By limiting the number of shares on the market, and making it difficult to sell, prices can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology
  • 01 Nov 2012
  • News

First and Goal

Soldiers Field? Says Swearengin, “The team approach at HBS, from study groups, to Crimson Greetings, to section intramural sports, offers great lessons for those who have not been lucky enough to be a part of a successful team and learn its unique lessons. Natural... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

attract FDI, I believe two of them were the primary determinants: Political uncertainty. Lacking strategy and vision the country has floated with no sense of direction. Policies change constantly. To make things worse, the polyphony... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • Web

Commencement 2015 Address | About

think of Perspective, I think back to an event that happened on our campus last month. Terry Virts, a graduate of the General Management Program in Executive Education, addressed one of our classes. He is probably the only speaker I’ve seen who, while answering a... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

MaterialsChina: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition Harvard Business School Case 706-036 The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

determines whether an undersea rock formation contains oil—prior to the oil company drilling a hole. With its high-growth characteristics, emgs is very different from the typical oilfield services company, and would be more suitable for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

To The Rescue

accident, which means they are “worse than dead” because they lose their earning power and become a burden for the rest of the family to support. Raju floated the idea to various colleagues, including his friend Krishna Palepu, the Ross... View Details
Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information
  • 17 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

and the reason Tony takes the bribe. Recall that Tony is excited, not scared, when Max presents Lassatta's offer. Later that night, as he lies awake in bed, Tony thinks he will be reborn the next day. For forty-three years, he had "existed like something View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

The Winning Season

float DeWitt a loan for $3.5 million, which he used to buy the team in 1961. It’s hard to imagine better circumstances for absorbing the many financial, legal, and political details that go into the successful management of a professional... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

strategy is to give the other party an out. If someone says, "Take it or leave it," simply treat the statement as untrue for the moment and make a counterproposal. The truth of an ultimatum is tested by whether the person making it is willing to consider... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Screen Saver

however, Lopez is pleased. "We didn't want to quadruple the stock price on the first day," he says. "When that happens, it means the company left a lot of money on the table. We priced it at $18. The shares opened at $19.18 and change, and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment
  • 22 Sep 2017
  • News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

float up. And so I got the big telescoping net and I held it up against the seawall. And I urged her to go and call the Channel 7 news truck. I remember that that ad that said, if you see news in the making, call—whatever it was—... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Deep Dive

Victor Vescovo (MBA 1994) had been descending through the waters of the Pacific Ocean for more than two hours. The headlights on the exterior of his state-of-the-art submersible illuminated only a tiny slice of this strange world. An aquatic creature he couldn’t... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Local Hero

are closer to the batter than the pitcher is. The complex is so close to the water that fans in all manner of floating craft regularly camp out to catch “splash hits” — the official term for home runs that clear the right field wall and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

1991): to provide continuous Internet access to the planet’s unconnected billions through, in Cassidy’s words, a “complex choreography where thousands of balloons are being steered and programmed all in an automated fashion.” The wind-blown balloons View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

The Middle Way

the northeast coast of Vancouver Island—where, for hundreds of years, K’ómoks people would canoe two miles from their settlements across the bay, fell the hill’s massive cedars, bring them down the hill using might or gravity, and float... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
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