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- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
community center. Such projects are good for team building and may augment limited community budgets, even build new relationships, but they don't change the education system or strengthen economic prospects for community residents. In... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Thomas Grenier
friend raised 60,000 and climbed Cho-Oyu, which is near Mt. Everest in Tibet. In the summer of 2007, Thomas took a break from his McKinsey consulting position to attempt Gasherbrum IV, a summit that remains unreached. New heights in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Another First
first woman to do this or that,” she told the Denver Post (December 9, 2005). “The important thing is the 4,400 young men and women I am now responsible for.” Even so, her career includes other firsts. Shortly after graduating from high school in Portsmouth, View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance Course Number 1624 Professor Sabrina Howell Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a new venture... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
actually been marked by steady decreases in concentration since World War II. Executives, they write, "need to break free of the biases that lead them to pursue larger and larger cross-border deals. There are better, more profitable strategies for View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
generations of oil." David Hirsch seconds this notion, saying, "There is nothing our technology (including revisiting our ‘revulsion toward nuclear power') cannot achieve." There is a great deal of support as well for the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off
terminology and the product itself – plus, knowing a good deal when they saw one, the web domain was $12 a year. Partnerships take Zorpads to the stars Since graduating from HBS in 2017, Wiegele and Smith continued growing Zorpads,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
BULLETIN EXPANDS DIGITAL OFFERINGS Following on the heels of the June debut of our iPad edition, the Bulletin is now available for download in the Google Play and Kindle Fire newsstands. Smartphone users have new options, too: The... View Details
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
and one which has at times in the last month had a market value greater than all other major airlines combined, two phenomena that may not be coincidental. Since September 11, however, I have heard countless friends, associates, and people in the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
Unfortunately, that tendency turns out to be bad for business. “At the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other.” In the paper The Cost of Friendship, three Harvard researchers show that the more affinity there is between... View Details
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Trade publications: industry research
What are trade publications and what kind of information do they provide? How can I locate them? Trade publications are issued by commercial publishers, as well as by trade and professional organizations. There are thousands of these publications, most View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
under ambitious new ownership. How will Ferguson manage to lead his team to yet another victorious season? To delve into that question, Elberse received a rare, pitch-level view of how Ferguson operates. She and coauthor Tom Dye (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
the company puts a premium on new product development and innovation, while providing help and hope to people of all ages with disabilities. Mal Mixon takes his guest on a tour of the product showroom on the first floor of the Elyria,... View Details
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Catherine Neale
Catherine Neale comes from a family with a long tradition of public service. Her grandmother, for example, led a branch of the Red Cross in England for over a decade. It was no surprise to anyone when, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Catherine spent the winter... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Restoring Order
founded the investment firm that bears their names, has chaired the New York Stock Exchange; served as chairman and CEO of Aetna; and was the founding dean of the Yale School of Management. While noting the fundamental soundness and... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) Course Number 1625 Assistant Professor Raymond Kluender Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
by Stuart C. Gilson (John Wiley & Sons) News of major job cuts, bankruptcies, mergers, and buyouts seems to dominate the headlines these days, as global economic forces put pressure on companies to adapt in pursuit of higher market value.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Reflecting on 24 Years at Harvard
I was born in Rajasthan, India, came to the U.S. when I was very young, and grewup in New Hampshire, Delaware, and Massachusetts. I attended Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School, and then went to McKinsey... View Details