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- 02 Jun 2021
- News
The NBA's African Expansion
The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media rights, and support local efforts to View Details
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Georges F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
legacy by promoting economic development. Past experience in the construction and coffee industries and former postings as Colombia’s ambassador to West Germany, and CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Colombia, convinced Ospina that South... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
apprenticeship." On the client side, Karch appreciates McKinsey's focus on helping clients make constructive changes. "This place is driven by values," she notes. "Our decisions to work with clients are based on whether we can help them,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Ariana Fahrney
the laughter continues. I am in a taxi in Myanmar, sharing a hilarious moment with the driver minutes after meeting. Shortly thereafter, our conversation ranges from the constructs of socialism and democracy to his father's political... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
Bit by bit, people are flying again. At Dublin Airport, travel is down from a record 33 million passengers in 2019 to a forecasted 8 to 9 million in 2021. Still, it’s a start—and travelers in and out of Ireland’s capital soon will have the benefit of a newly View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
you can’t study a leader in isolation; there’s a relational construct between a person and society. Clinical psychology gets into the underlying motivation for people who seek leadership positions. In political science, we saw the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- April 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Corrections Corporation of America
This case illustrates a comprehensive valuation of a publicly traded firm specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Buildings and Facilities; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Forecasting and Prediction; Risk Management; Valuation; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry
Riedl, Edward J. "Corrections Corporation of America." Harvard Business School Case 107-071, April 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, interest is growing in the possibility of View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
intelligent, committed, and open to new ideas. People walk the walk and get things done. That culture makes this an interesting place to work.” HCZ operates two charter schools and is constructing a new building for one of them, a process... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
to present it in the most constructive context. "People aren't happy when the unexpected happens, but they are even unhappier if they find out you tried to hide it," says Bruce Patton, a partner at Boston-based Vantage Partners.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 25 Aug 2015
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First Look Tuesday
short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution of higher education. We construct a unique panel dataset from multiple sources and utilize the latest dynamic panel data... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
will control 51 percent of the cinemas in Mexico City, one of the world's most-populated urban areas. To reach the working poor, Heyman decided to cut ticket prices by about half in low-income neighborhoods while building the same luxurious theaters that Cinemex was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
their experience that they tell their stories to others, persuade them to try a product, and provide constructive criticism and new product ideas. Employee-owners are so enthusiastic about their organization that they infect customers... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
Chamber of Commerce of the value and the opportunity of such a project. Quickly, the question of the leadership emerged: who to coordinate the construction work and eventually lead this new institution? It was clear from the beginning... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
teaching and learning processes in business schools worldwide, Hunt was 93. Hunt was one of the first to bring to the attention of the academic community the problems related to the management of working capital and to make constructive... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
their credibility and increase their voice in the running of the system," Grossman and Rangan wrote in a working paper on the subject. "The key for management is to develop a governance system that accommodates this tension in a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne