Institutional Investments - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

drains," the proportion of foreign students studying in U.S. institutions of higher learning, or the likelihood that the U.S. will continue to lose its dominance in the development of new high-level ideas and know-how are overblown.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

policies that promote localism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-062.pdf The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Victor Calanog Abstract Trust in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position would entail developing the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator is a partnership between the foundation, Harvard Business School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The alliance is working to eliminate... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

order and devour a pepperoni pizza at midnight, try tackling next week’s grocery list instead. Researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth of customer orders from an online grocer. Their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Learning Curve

Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to View Details

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Policy - Business & Environment

ice cap, a rise in sea levels, warming of the oceans ” Industry internal document 1968 American Petroleum Institute [10] 1970s - 1980s In a 1978 presentation to Exxon executives and scientists, James Black of Exxon’s Products Research... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

1993), after each launching their careers in investment banking. “Joining ICV was a great experience and eye opening for us because we were used to being in majority environments,” said Tingle. “Also, at a smaller firm you were involved... View Details

15 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development

cooperatively owned grocery store. In my work, I primarily organized our outreach efforts with several foundations and community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and strategized ways for us to successfully secure both grant... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Shantanu Rege

Inclined toward math and physics and eager to learn among "the smartest people," Shantanu Rege went to the Indian Institute of Technology, "keen on engineering and looking forward to a PhD and a career in academia." In... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

Art by Brian Taylor As an HBS doctoral student and recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research, George Serafeim (DBA ’10) coauthored the paper “The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

ten most innovative programs in the United States even though the program was then in its 66th session. In the MBA classroom, Crum offered courses in corporate finance, bank lending, financial institution strategy, and View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

18 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

countries, these firms now account for one-quarter of the total merger and acquisition activity of all firms. The larger private equity firms generate fees for investment banking firms that exceed $350 million per year. Shows how the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2002
News

Bozidar Djelic

personal accolades or policy successes. “One shouldn't think one is irreplaceable,” he says. “My real goal is to leave the ministry as a much-improved institution with better-trained and better-paid people, with established procedures and... View Details

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

To what extent do multinational corporations have an institutional obligation to the Asian countries in which they serve, and does that obligation include holding higher standards than Asian law requires? These questions were debated at... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Preserving Patagonia

value contained in the land as possible, while simultaneously protecting and enhancing the ecological value. Patagonia Sur has spawned several nonprofit entities, including the Patagonia Sur Foundation, which supports Patagonia's isolated inhabitants; the Melimoyu... View Details

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Business School, offered the following guidance to help organizations understand the metrics that serve as a baseline for diversity and inclusion initiatives and improve View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School