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02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

percent. As the world’s second-largest economy, China’s crash ripped through world markets, including Japan, Hong Kong, Europe, and the United States, as uneasy investors instigated historic single-day sell-offs. Early this week, the Chinese View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

James H. Goodnight

SAS products and has built the company into the largest privately owned software business in the country. SAS applications have become part of standard business processes in direct marketing, banking, and government analysis. View Details

Keywords: Services

02 Mar 2020
News

Educating the Whole Student

the work and seeing what the needs are, every day, of teachers, students, and families—then you just don’t understand,” says Liu, who later worked on education policy in the government and nonprofit sectors. Her experience at Codman... View Details

Keywords: April White; Educational Services; Educational Services

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Student Handbook | MBA

study complies with all policies. Although we have attempted to include most of the regulations governing graduate academic programs, some programs have additional requirements and regulations of their own. Students also should become... View Details

Profile

Andrew Kletzing

to serve my country again. Not in the military, but by using my business experience and knowledge. I love politics and would like a public service or government role. Perhaps even in elected office. One of... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Gregg Petersmeyer

C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,” he says, “we must revive that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

13 May 2014
News

Harvard Business School Announces 2014 Leadership Fellows

Keywords: Leadership Fellows; Government; Government; Government; Government

01 Dec 2003
News

Studying Japan from the Inside

choose between two types of governance systems: the traditional Japanese system and one similar to the U.S. system. We are already seeing companies divided into two camps: Toyota, Canon, and Matsushita are saying that the Japanese system... View Details

Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2012
News

I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble

business ideas are viable. Some two dozen mentors and advisers volunteered time to help 125 students from across Harvard fine-tune their projects and pitches. By Sunday night, the field had narrowed from 32 pitches to 13 presenting teams. Taking home top honors was... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

view. Born in England and trained as an economist at Cambridge University, he moved to Brussels to work with the European Commission, the governing body of the newly formed European Union. He later became EU director of Transatlantic... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Personal Services; Personal Services

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Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the speed and quality of reform through improved leadership capacity. Indeed, this network of attendees has played a critical role in advocating for reform at both the state and national levels. Building on that success, this year the club has opened the program to the... View Details

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

effects of climate change—as well as many, varied government policies trying to mitigate its effects—are also inspiring technological innovations that will give rise to new products, services, and business models in the coming years. How... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

01 Jan 2003
News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

and great-grandmothers in the African-American community have always taught young people to help others in need. That's the sort of wisdom that anyone would do well to follow." Lillian Lincoln Lambert, the first African-American woman to graduate from HBS, grew her... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

questions. Yet, the conceptions of business that each question implies can be (and historically have tended to be) mutually exclusive. Everybody wants goods and services made available at low prices. But achieving that goal often means... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

10 Aug 2015
News

Helping the Unemployed Find Work and Self-Esteem

In the late 1990s, when the UK recruitment firm started in 1960 by his father, Sir Alec Reed, won a government contract to provide welfare-to-work employment services, James Reed (MBA 1990) knew success would require some innovative... View Details

March 2013
Case

NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Kaser

The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included partnerships with View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

first dimension relates to the degree to which the collaborative network is "open" verses "closed." The second dimension relates to the degree to which the governance structure for collaboration is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2018
Case

African Bank Investments Limited (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; South Africa