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- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
commercial perks and government benefits to veterans, Hall feels gratified that his business venture is directly serving men and women who have served their country. He thinks of a sniper who fought under his command. In Iraq, the soldier... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Bowl running back Arian Foster," according to a company press release. Fantex paid $10 million for a minority stake in Foster's brand. At the Harvard forum, Foster said that Security and Exchange... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
really brilliant or really stupid,' but we couldn't figure out which one," Huber recalls. "And of course they were all brilliant. But unfortunately for most of us normal humans, we never wrote them down. We could have stolen his ideas View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
back more investors overall. "It's about increasing the size of the pie available to all the firm's stakeholders," he says. Not A Universal Solution But Chapter 11 isn't the answer for all companies, Gilson says. It might yield... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global community. Nevertheless, the pressures... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Convexity By: Hanson, Samuel Gregory Abstract—Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
securing the city’s water systems for a more sustainable future. Setting the Context: The Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP) The Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP) identifies six focus areas for mitigation and adaptation: energy, mobility,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
falsified invoices, and sham transactions by overseas nationals who place that money into outside secure accounts, mostly in U.S. institutions. Whether the individual behind these ill-gotten gains is a murderous "godfather," a corrupt... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
tide. “If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people. Can you imagine? That’s a bit of a doomsday perspective, but it’s a call to action.” “We are approaching... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We’ve already seen the economics shift for a number of startups in battery development, battery recycling, carbon capture, solar development, and clean hydrogen. Within EVs, the IRA’s tax credit of 30 percent on commercial EVs (up to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
been testing blockchain’s potential for a few years now. But until Northern Trust’s pilot began this past spring, private equity investors didn’t have a commercial application for blockchain. Aware of the tech’s potential impact, Northern... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
and Brazil. It’s not a stretch to understand why this is the case: If airports can reduce processing time through security and reduce anxiety, they will be increasing leisure time inside the airport—and View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
military significance of wireless technology, especially at sea. It was essentially the creation of the U.S. Navy and a General Electric executive named Owen Young to serve a combination of commercial and View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/IPRImit.pdf Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector Authors:Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda Publication:In America's Energy Innovation Problem Abstract We examine the extent to which venture capital is adequately positioned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
Shield AI’s unmanned Nova drones are used in war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate through buildings without a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
happened in Brazil; the credit system is still dominated by government-owned banks. I don't think the U.S. government will want to keep its shares in the largest mortgage and commercial banks for long. Q:... View Details
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
evolving? Yasheng Huang and Tarun Khanna: In terms of similarities, both are conscious of their role in the world economy. Both seek to play a bigger political role on the world stage. China is already doing that as a permanent member of the U.N. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
genetically modified foods in Europe. Betting the company on a "life sciences" vision, Shapiro had sold or spun off Monsanto's traditional chemical businesses and moved aggressively to acquire seed companies. Dazzled by the seemingly vast View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
1931 of John Wyeth & Brothers. In prescription drugs, the company's initial learning base emerged with the purchase in 1931 of John Wyeth & Brothers, a respected mid-sized Philadelphia drug company established in 1860. The Wyeth family had made a substantial... View Details