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September 2022 (Revised May 2024)
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Navya: Steering toward a Driverless Future

By: Julian De Freitas, Elie Ofek, Shaun Ingledew and Tonia Labruyere

In 2022, Sophie Desormière arrived at French roboshuttle producer Navya, tasked with charting a new course in a challenging sector. The company, which had recently listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, was burning through cash reserves and needed to transform the promise... View Details

Keywords: Autonomous Vehicles; Market Entry and Exit; Opportunities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Business Model; Auto Industry; Transportation Industry; France; United States

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29 Feb 2024
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Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

soccer ball inside Harvard Stadium during his visit. (Image credit: Evgenia Eliseeva) Like Beckham, Messi has proven himself to be the kind of talent around which businesses can build. After Messi signed with the Paris Saint-Germain team... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

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Entrepreneurs-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

San Francisco, CA Shirish Nimgaonkar Founder and CEO eBlissAI Carlos Reines Gonzalez Co-Founder RubiconMD Brooklyn, NY Kenneth Salas COO nuDesk Anthony Soohoo Venture Advisor AI Fund Jon Staff Getaway New York City & Boston, MA Shara Ticku C16 Biosciences New York City... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Wheel Change

A serial entrepreneur, Paris Wallace (MBA 2007/MPA 2008) is founder of Ovia Health and Good Start Genetics. But he started his first business—an online store selling bike parts and accessories—at age 16. With his launch this year of the... View Details

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

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Global Research Centers - Faculty & Research

Africa Research Center Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi Asia-Pacific Research Center Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore California Research Center Silicon Valley Europe Research Center Paris India Research Center Mumbai Israel Research Office Tel... View Details

20 Mar 2014
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Europe? Yes, we can

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Europe - Global

Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study... View Details

01 Aug 2012
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Face Fears with Courage

17 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details

Keywords: by Tim Gray

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

controversy as a site of complex speculative activity. Existing historiography attributes the 1859 suppression of the Paris coulisse to aggravated competition between state-authorized brokers and coulissiers following the market downturn... View Details

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About - Global

View More Facts Silicon Valley Mid-US Montevideo Paris Istanbul Mumbai São Paulo Shanghai Hong Kong Tokyo Mexico City Dubai Singapore Cairo Tel-Aviv Johannesburg Lagos Nairobi Eighteen global locations help to build on our legacy of... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

in digital technology, data transparency,and AI-driven monitoring are transforming carbon credit verification and marketconfidence. Additionally, she shares herperspective on the integration of voluntary andcompliance markets, including recent developments in Article 6... View Details

21 Nov 2023
Op-Ed

The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics

18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

company? We’ve developed a number of great projects, roughly 25 between television and movies, that I’d like to get made in the next few years. If forced to pick one of each: -A period television series set in Paris that weaves back and... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

President George W. Bush on the urgency of addressing global warming. Since 2015, he has chaired the Clean Tech Initiative at Barclays, a firm that embraces Paris Climate Agreement goals and has committed substantial resources to global... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

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Mammon: The Money Devil - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

and engraving by unknown artist. Paris, Chez Daumont, [early 18th century]. 22.5 x 31.5 cm CF f14 xx One of the earliest prints of the flying "money devil," who is pursued by people of all trades. Many thematically similar prints were published in View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Returning to the Roots

the framework to see that very clearly.” Maison Latour wines have been enjoyed over the centuries by members of the court of Bavaria and guests of the Paris Ritz, in addition to State dinners with US Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining

2024
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When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets

By: Ishita Sen, Pari Sastry and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva

This paper studies how homeowners insurance markets respond to growing climate losses and how this impacts mortgage market dynamics. Using Florida as a case study, we show that traditional insurers are exiting high risk areas, and new lower quality insurers are... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Natural Disasters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance Industry; Florida