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- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly valuable for those seeking to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
four investment funds with approximately $750 million of capital for private equity investments. Most important thing learned at HBS: “About my own limitations. I'm not a very analytical person, so I got a wonderful framework for looking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent the year in Omaha, View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
the capital of Bangladesh. Over 1,100 people were killed in the worst industrial accident since the Union Carbide plant gas leak in Bhopal, India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories, whose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are generally sound, and hedge funds... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/content/fdi-perspectives Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
assume we have fantastic R&D people," he continues. "They are building ideas. They might never ask the question, 'Is this relevant to the company, customers, and marketplace?' Sometimes they might just work with the budget... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model suggests regulations that limit the issuance of safe securities in good times. Read:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
working inside the country to create value for its Chinese users, employees, and business partners. To critics, Google was selling out its core principles to play in the world's second largest economy. “Google shot themselves in the foot... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
greater, but the average quality will be lower due to the lower expected value of marginal ideas. However, we posit that slack time such as school breaks may be qualitatively different than work time because contiguous blocks may be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
other colleagues, including HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan, have arrived at some answers for designing, developing, and managing long-term customer relationships. And this area is big business with a capital B: U.S. firms buy over $600... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to the JD/MBA Program
Joanna: I grew up in Maryland and went to Yale for undergrad, where I studied Economics and East Asian Studies. Before grad school, I spent one year in investment banking and two years in capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
look at water as a critical asset that they want to invest in for the long term,” says Littlefield. Her hope is that cities might take a page from industry and see how private capital can work with... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but this is conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Student Activities - Health Care
MBA Experience Student Activities At HBS, there are more than 200 health care-related events annually for students to engage in health care activities, network with alumni who work in the sector, and delve more deeply into various health... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
chosen strategy. By enabling an honest, organization-wide, and public conversation, senior management teams, working collaboratively with scholar-consultants and organizational members, have access to valid data (the unvarnished truth),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
participation, improve representation of marginalized groups, and increase the average level of competence and informedness of the population. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50729 Do CEO Activists... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Institute/Taubman Center Policy Brief, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010. An abstract is unavailable at this time. Working PapersThe Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
Working PapersGlobalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980 Geoffrey G. Jones This working paper examines the globalization of the beauty industry before 1980. This industry, which had emerged in its modern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne