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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
moving upmarket to challenge the industry leaders. They point out that Uber, commonly hailed as a disrupter, doesn’t actually fit the mold, and they explain that if managers don’t understand the nuances of disruption theory or apply its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
challenge for the existing theories on upstream capital flows and global imbalances. August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association The New Empirical Economics of Management By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
responsibility to be a fully contributing member of that community.” At the Capital Group, where he spent several post-college years before HBS, Diamond learned about the asset management business and gained... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
manage a multi-business corporation?" to engender entrepreneurship and adaptability while maintaining control and realizing economies. All companies, whether large, diversified multinationals or small entrepreneurial startups, wrestle... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
Book Review: Mix Master by Sean Silverthorne In contemporary culture, a remix is the bringing together of assets in new ways—a song that combines recording samples from Otis Redding or Brenda Lee, say, placed in a new Kanye West wrapper.... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
industrial and energy services—and was close to defaulting on its financial obligations. Some managers felt the company was also bankrupt in terms of ideas. There was insufficient communication across the company, including few common... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
investment outlook in the region, and was moderated by Blair Pickerell (MBA 1984), Former Chairman, Asia of Nikko Asset Management and Chairman of Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong. Robotics... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
managed to achieve success and satisfaction in both realms. She related how in June 1983, six months pregnant with her first child, she became the Times' highest-ranking woman when the paper named her deputy metropolitan editor. She took... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
1997, Mexico inaugurated a program in which all pension contributions are collected by the State and transferred into individual investment accounts managed by private organizations, called AFORES, registered with the government and... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Gates, and ThorCon Power, whose lead investor is Acadian Asset Management founder Gary Bergstrom, have publically committed to goals on cost (< $0.07/kwh), availability (full-scale demonstration by 2025)... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
Energy and HySynergy are angling to play a significant role lowering emissions in a hard-to-abate sector. The management team must balance the “clean” and “dirty” sides of the business to successfully finance the energy transition. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Ross has built a successful private equity firm focused on distressed investing, WL Ross & Co. In 2006, INVESCO, an asset management company, approaches him about acquiring his firm. INVESCO has had weak... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
to favor this experienced view." He cited the example of several meetings in the year 2000, during which the Financial Accounting Standards Board was hashing out rules regarding mergers and acquisitions. At issue was the topic of goodwill, an intangible View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
allowing bonds to be rolled over into private sector retirement accounts; and generally making it easier to purchase bonds by expanding distribution to outlets such as the post office and Wal-Mart. "The federal government spends $350 billion each year on View Details
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
’03) is currently COO, National Institute for Children’s Health Quality, Greg Shell (MBA ’01) is Managing Director of Bain Capital Double Impact Fund, and Stephen Chan (MBA ’09 ) is VP of Strategy and Operations at The Boston Foundation.... View Details
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Georges F. Doriot
“a group of stodgy old bankers with a unique proposition: Let’s set up a fund that will invest in promising young companies, often companies with little or no sales and with little management experience but with potentially... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager with $991 billion in assets under management. He... View Details