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- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
You end this article stating that in terms of norms and rules of global finance, "the height of our current era of globalization might have already been reached." What do you mean? A: Well, if we think about globalization as a... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
breadwinner and the rebel. Breadwinners are men who play by the rules of the institutions that they participate in, work hard to achieve, and eventually become respected authoritative figures—pillars of their communities. Colin Powell is an exemplary breadwinner today.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
quantify, the process may be as valuable as the end product. While the programs are rolled out, the “cow annuity” and the small businesses formed by the co-ops bring families, neighbors, and communities together. Therefore, when weighing... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose of this paper is to show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
increases in perceived bias against Whites—a relationship not observed in Blacks' perceptions. Moreover, these changes in Whites' conceptions of racism are extreme enough that Whites have now come to view anti-White bias as a bigger societal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be established to design the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
abruptly in the Great Recession and has not come back. There are a number of theories about too much regulation, for example, or too much student debt, but it is a problem because small businesses provide a path to the American dream.... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
at Harvard Business School European Research Center HBS Online doesn't teach you knowledge or prescribe to any cookie-cutter solutions to problems. Rather, it teaches you how to think about business problems and arrive at a solution... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the landscape. “People often say, ‘Oh, we need more Harvard PhDs,’ and while that might be great, that’s not really the problem. The problem is we need more individuals entering the security profession.” A 2015 report by Cisco estimated... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
compared to just two decades ago. This explosive growth, especially in emerging markets, has been fueled both by changes in world politics (e.g., the end of the Cold War, collapse of the Soviet Union, shifting political climate in China,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
venture-financing market that had rebounded from a feeble state after the recession in the early 1990s (only $1 billion was committed in 1991) to unprecedented strength as the decade ended (with weekly commitments exceeding $1 billion).... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
seats in which you now sit. Our incredible faculty taught them—and you—to engage in Active Listening , to keep an open mind, to understand and debate opposing viewpoints, and to build on each other’s ideas. Their time at Harvard Business School showed them—and you—how... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
and develop a construction budget and financing plan. Students are asked to evaluate the prospective financials for this development and assess the viability of the development plan and its prospective returns. The case then ends with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
relative merits for Unigrains of expanding its reach globally versus maintaining its specialized position in French agribusiness. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-154 Hello Alfred: Come Home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
monetary value.Photo: iStockPhoto However, not all forms of personal information exploitation are beneficial to consumers. Firms sometimes exploit personal information to better estimate customers' willingness to pay and to engage in price discrimination, which may... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
didn’t pay off. But generally, the New Bedford whaling industry of the 1800s thrived using this investment model, averaging over 14 percent annual returns, says Alex. Holding up the high end of that average was the firm Gideon Allen and... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers will have to make View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
interactions. We find that NGOs with similar goals end up using very different strategies and tactics to advance their housing agendas. More significantly, we observe that NGOs are likely to employ multiple strategies and tactics in their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne