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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
in the Media Age by Steven Rosefielde & D. Quinn Mills (Cambridge University Press) Professor Mills and his coauthor assert that the United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges posed by terrorism, Russia, China, and the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
Adrianna Ma (MBA 2000) Adrianna Ma (MBA 2000) has been member of the HBS Fund Investors Society, which recognizes leadership giving, for the past five years. “I had an unconventional background and I’m grateful that the School took a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Battilana. Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
traditional business practices. Fueled by the Internet, the Information Age allows companies to create infrastructures to connect with their customers electronically. With this connection they can sense their customers' needs in real time... View Details
- Web
Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
markets. But why do some businesses at the base of the pyramid succeed while others fail? The course examines the opportunities and the challenges of the base of the pyramid markets and seeks to identify the key factors behind commercial success and failure. How is... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
but their passive investment nature offers few checks on those companies’ executives. Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds As investors increasingly demand investment opportunities that match their social beliefs,... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
specialization. Consider one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin. His experience defines what it means to transition from outsider to insider. He came to this country at age six because his parents were trying to escape the oppression... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups working on different solutions,... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Springbank Collective, a coalition of investors seeking to eliminate the gender gap, believes the “gender equity lens” for investing is a gateway to bigger themes, such as the future of work, the aging... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
the government—the religious groups that do not work, but whom the government subsidizes. The nation has no large industry of rental housing, nor does it have the rental-constituencies of the United States: the people living in, profiting from, concerned with rental... View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
double the general population and has “increased substantially” for veterans, ages 18 to 34, since 2005. For Mike Zapolin (OPM 33, 2004), this was a seemingly intractable problem that deserved a radical solution. Zapolin, who goes by... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
knowledge he acquired at Harvard. After gaining finance experience at Fairchild Semiconductor and Memorex, in 1981 Goldman left the stability of those established firms and joined a startup semiconductor venture, VLSI Technology, becoming its CFO at View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54030 forthcoming Academy of Management Journal The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk By: Huang, Laura Abstract—Securing financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
will drive investors away to other companies." Guillermo Estefani concurs, saying, "It is important to show all real information available from the company, so investors can track its behavior and... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
indices." Technology is a means to that end. Technology, Efficiency And An Aging Population From a macroeconomic perspective, Seifert pointed out, technologically advanced and efficient capital markets will play a key role as... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
Business School case study details, big-name investors say they want to take bets on social justice startups like Blakeman’s, but few actually take the plunge—especially if the entrepreneurs at their helm don’t come from the same polished... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
different in scope and age and mission: the Clark Foundation and Pfizer pharmaceuticals. These two organizations wanted to get rid of trachoma by the year 2020. "They both had very specific and clear core capabilities. Pfizer had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
When Deborah Farrington and her two sisters were growing up, their mother and father made it clear to all of them at an early age that they could do anything they set their minds to. Her father worked in financial services at Lehman... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups working on different solutions,... View Details