Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,938) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,938) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 63 of 2,938 Results →
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

breakthrough technology and innovative business models. Audrey's role prior to HBS was a Senior Manager and Acting Zambia Country Director at One Acre Fund. Aman Baboolal (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: MBA Intern, NextEra... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2010
  • News

A Lonely Crusader

We’ve all read stories about those rare individuals who saw the financial crisis coming and profited handsomely from their contrarian insights. Add to that list of contrarians hedge fund manager Bill Ackman... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st century? Today's constantly changing business environment presents challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia

By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Taffi was a tech-enabled fashion styling startup founded by Shahad Geoffrey in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Within three years of operating, Geoffrey had pivoted the business multiple times. In 2023, Geoffrey was attempting the business’s most ambitious pivot yet, shifting... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Fashion Industry; Technology Industry; Saudi Arabia; Arabian Peninsula
Related
  • Web

Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

portfolios Gain the skills and strategies to choose the right alternatives manager or become that future manager yourself Who Will Benefit Early-Career Financial Services Professionals Aspiring Finance or... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

University of Aeronautics and Astronautics PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE SDIC Fund Management Co., ZhenFund, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC, Cummins Inc., Robert Bosch LLC HBS ACTIVITIES Co-president,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Blanchard House, which produces podcasts, and Miller manages the impact fund for Twilio, a cloud communications company. “Rumi Spice is in a good place. We’ve been able to maintain a stable supply chain,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

focuses on how management principles and best practices from other industries can be applied; how the process of innovation can be improved; how principles of strategy and consumer choice can be utilized; how information technology can... View Details
  • July 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (A)

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
On October 20, 2009, Brady Dougan, the CEO of Credit Suisse Group, announced a new compensation plan for the bank. The announcement had followed quickly on the heels of the G-20 meeting the prior month where, in the wake of the financial crisis, the major governments... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Globalized Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland; United Kingdom
Related
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

period following graduation. The cumulative amount of post-graduation career exploration funds that an HBS graduate may receive in their lifetime from all HBS and Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. In each year that a... View Details
  • July 2021
  • Article

Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness

By: Jody Grewal, Clarissa Hauptmann and George Serafeim
As part of the SEC’s revision of Regulation S-K, many investors proposed the mandatory disclosure of sustainability information in the form of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data. However, progress is contingent on collecting evidence regarding which... View Details
Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Accounting Standards; Sustainability; Nonfinancial Information; Corporate Social Responsibility; Stock Price Informativeness; Synchronicity; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Accountability; Stocks; Price; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Accounting; Standards
Related
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

controlling stake in Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Satyam), a troubled Indian IT company managed since January 2009 by a six-member government-appointed caretaker board. Anand Mahindra, chairman and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

nonresident convertibility, which permitted foreigners to move funds for current account purposes freely from one country to another. This was the key development in the establishment of a liberal and open international economy. It had an... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

cuts that eviscerated core services such as street sweeping and litter-bin collection. The results were both predictable and unpleasant: a “visibly filthier” city, to use Tisch’s phrase, and an exploding rat problem. The funding and... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

re-evolve the future. SurgiBox Mike Teodorescu (DBA 2018) Alumni Track Crowd Favorite Safe surgery, any time, any place. Business Track, 2021 Concord Materials Robert Lane (MBA 2021) Anthony Valente (MBA 2022) Business Track Co-Winner Integrated materials View Details
  • Web

Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

funding for this public goods project, it would be great if you let us know when you cite interviews in published works by sending a brief email to cem@hbs.edu . Here, we feature a few examples of thematic and comparative research... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

fraudulent fund, even though many suspected something was strange, since the low-risk fund had defied reality by dramatically outperforming the stock market several years in a row. “We were all aware of this hedge View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2010 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Washout: The Founders' Tale and the Investors' Tale

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. Carr
The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian v. Advent VI Ltd. a California Superior Court case. The founders of the company, which produced switches for computer... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Managerial Roles; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry
Related
  • Web

Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Not-for-Profit Management Amy Shan, Harlem Children's Zone, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation/Richard L. Menschel Endowment; Margaret T. Morris Foundation Endowment Jenny Yeung, Merit America, John C. Whitehead View Details
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: "leaders" and "managers." Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers focus on one-to-one meetings with core functions. Firms with leader CEOs are on average more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne