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- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
proposition? How are they going to make money? How are they going to get an adequate ROI on this? How much investment is it? And how quickly can they recoup that investment? In the same token, I've got to talk to the rights holder, in... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
short-term returns and better understand the investments necessary to ensure long-term viability. Second, other stakeholders will begin to appreciate the need for a company to make a profit if it is to create value over the long term.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
real good data, maybe at all. And to the degree that we have it, in ways that are so aggregated that it's kind of meaningless. It is these normed averages that don't mean a whole lot. What we're hoping to do is to take the data that's... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
she said, before her organization recruited him to work on helping inner city businesses. Woods and his management team started a venture fund and have raised $125 million to invest in inner city and minority-owned companies. "His... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community activities and outside... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
for investment banking internships, so Amyn was a great resource for us during that time. Sonia Sahney: When I went to my summer internship at Goldman after our first year I had already seen how they did modeling because Amyn had shown me... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
brokers to talk to Internet customers in real time, cautioned that advances in quality and service should be introduced over time. "It's important to stay on the leading edge with customers without falling off," he concluded. "Technology... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44340 How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
that our proxy is associated with earnings and real activities management. Overall, the results show that the time horizon of conference call narratives can be informative regarding managers' myopic behavior. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
various types of people? Candidates have been investing heavily in both mass advertising and personal selling. For the 2012 election, for instance, the Democratic and Republican candidates, together with their allies, spent over $2... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
investing the time or recruiting people to improve those processes.” The researchers conducted the survey over nine months between October 2015 and June 2016, in partnership with the membership organization WomenCorporateDirectors... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
mitigating the possibility that a Democratic-leaning firm might already be more vulnerable in areas that received the channel as part of their cable plans. PR problems with real costs Public relations issues have long been a complicated... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
marketers, who spent $1.42 billion on online video advertising last year in the United States, an investment expected to jump 52 percent to $2.16 billion in 2011, according to analytics firm eMarketer. Tracking Eyes And Faces To help... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
says, was a very modest time investment with a big payoff. “It was exciting to meet a variety of fellow HBS alumni from all over the world who you might never get a chance to meet in the real world,” he... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
reunion this year because "faith and meaning are about connections. And the connections I made with my B-School classmates are just about the most real I've ever made." Jeremy E. Verba (MBA '93) Jeremy Verba is working at the intersection... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
more than $150 million in assets to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Such registration will subject these managers to regular reporting and inspections by the SEC, although these managers can continue to pursue any View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
The term "academic research" can conjure images of scientists conducting experiments in a basement laboratory, or of tweed-clad professors poring through old theories to develop new ones. But let's not forget about field research, which happens beyond university... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
one would be willing to invest in research for fear that imitators who had not spent a dime on R&D would become competitors and drive down profits. By protecting innovations, patents are an essential incentive for the development of new... View Details