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15 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – and the false narrative that being View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

marketing group, hammering out goals and determining resources, work assignments, measures of success, and even rewards and recognition for a job well done. "It is the only method that works if you want to move in parallel paths and not... View Details

25 Apr 2023
News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,” says Borkenstein. “Nurses are... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

level. The global community tends to look to governments and multilaterals during public health crises, but in what contexts can the private sector be better equipped to act and in what ways? ArcelorMittal (AM), an integrated steel and... View Details

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

seek bankruptcy, nevertheless suggested that the situation might require forcing lenders to "absorb the losses," suggesting a fine line between formal and de facto bankruptcy. Sudheer Thaakur was among those suggesting that national bankruptcy might View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

across the country. HBS visited Tata Power’s Trombay Power Station on a sunny Mumbai day. Despite the temperate weather, visibility was quite low due to significant air pollution – an AQI of over 200 – which reflects PM 2.5 levels well... View Details

18 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

as well as something with enormous social value because a lot of food goes to waste. Q: Can you give us other examples of how this works in practice? A: In Brazil, Banco Real has grown in 10 years from a small behind-the-pack bank to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Turnover in India (revised) Authors: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

greater marriage age gaps, increased marital abuse, lower reported autonomy, and poorer health. My results are robust to a TS2SLS specification employing distance to a major health center as my instrument. As the first cohort of females... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

welcoming, family-owned wineries in the region that make great wine. This book includes a wine-touring-friendly directory to the 280 wineries and notes their flagship wines and “hidden gems.” The 21 “why they did it” winemaker stories each finish with original family... View Details

08 May 2019
News

Lessons from the Ashes

play, that somehow with my dad dying, others might take it over. And the other thing from my perspective was I felt the company wasn't really being as well run as it could be. I think it could have been more profitable. So here am I, like... View Details

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

active on the AngelList platform between February 5 and June 18, 2020. Researchers used the number of years a candidate has spent in their current role, as well as a proprietary score created by AngelList that includes experience,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog

sources of economic growth away from petrochemicals. Societal change has been rapid in some dimensions – exhilarating and sometimes disconcerting – and on others has been glacially slow. This has triggered new entrepreneurial opportunities as View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

"Women Enriching Business," the daylong event was designed to celebrate the scope of women's accomplishments in the business world as well as to strengthen the ties between current MBA students and women business leaders. (WSA Web Site)... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

28 Feb 2025
News

Joy to the World

But he credits a dedicated community of social workers, as well as his birth and adopted families, with helping him eventually flourish. That gratitude helped spark his career in community service and his deep interest in exploring how... View Details

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

are fully aware of their significant influence on capital markets, as well as their responsibilities to their investors and to capital markets—and to the US economy more generally,” says Viceira. “After all, they are true long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog

debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing, mass tort clais, restructuring of retiree health care/pension plans, and corporate layoff/downsizing programs. While the course focuses on U.S. corporates, it also applies the core principles of U.S.... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

New Releases

for opportunities to explore as well as reacting to problems to be solved. Says Raiffa, "Smart Choices is based on the premise that quality decision-making is a fundamental and valuable life skill that can shape and influence in a... View Details

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

deftly weaves in rich storylines from her experience as a psychotherapist—not just to entertain or teach us about others but to beautifully and subtly teach us even more about ourselves.” —Dr. Darria Long Gillespie (MBA 2005), ER doctor, TV host, View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

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