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  • 30 Jan 2018
  • News

Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

problems and improving the civic or social good. Over the course of the year, the Scholars will travel to each participating presidential center to learn from former presidents, key former administration officials, and leading academics. They will pursue individual... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

implementing ideas. It requires everything from formal education to "water cooler conversations" to get members of an organization to exchange and build on each others' ideas. Given the complex nature of tacit knowledge and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

George: In terms of building the business, they expanded and gave everyone free access. What people didn't know is that was in exchange for profiling the information. Now, in his defense, Mark wrote a defense recently in the Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt announced their "grave concerns" about it in an unusual joint press release that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

structured and how much equity the founders should relinquish in exchange for the start-up capital. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807027 Rebuilding the New Orleans Public Schools:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

community and examined paths to success in the new economy. Held during the last weekend in February, the three-day event, titled “The Digital Dilemma: Challenges to Excelling in the New Economy,” gave participants an opportunity to View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

early in a relationship. We show that certain kinds of exchange partners can systematically reap differential returns from a common history of interaction. Organizational similarity significantly enhances the ability of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Dec 2017
  • News

The Lines That Divide America

exchange for hard work is now both limited and unevenly granted,” he writers. “Worse yet, white working-class citizens perceive others—mainly minorities and immigrants—to be unfairly cutting ahead of them in line. And members of the white... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
  • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study

pretty well accepted," said Forjaz. "Then we had an intense exchange of e-mails, and we reached the final document by consensus." When the researchers left, Forjaz told the conference audience, serious dialogue among... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Global Perspectives

example, the firm we visited was build ing roads and schools, because it’s in their interest to be able to get their products to market and have a qualified workforce,” he says. photo by Natalie Keyssar photo by Natalie Keyssar Shih was equally enthusiastic about the... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

An Eye to the East

with the office's January inauguration. By bringing together nearly sixty business and management academics and about twenty CEOs and managers from across Asia, the forum provided an opportunity for HBS professors working on Asia-related research to present their work... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

will be a natural counterbalance to the slowdown in industry. Second, China is in good shape from a fiscal standpoint. They have a budget deficit target of 2.3 percent this year, but are currently in surplus. Third, they still have enormous foreign View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

KhayyatHarvard Business School Supplement 912-015 After a decade-long dispute with the Polish State Treasury, in October 2009 the Dutch insurer Eureko agreed to exit PZU in exchange for compensation. Who was the biggest beneficiary of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

come together for sustained, intensive discussion of the problems we're passionate about," said Robin Ely, following the meeting. "I felt like a kid in a candy store: no matter where I turned, I saw brilliant, thoughtful people with whom to View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

compensation of U.K. CEOs is positively related to the extent of the firm's interactions with U.S. markets, as captured by the percentage of total sales generated in the U.S., the presence of prior U.S. acquisition activity, the presence of a U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

meeting, congratulate him on the company's making its numbers, and then hand him an envelope containing the details of his comp package before walking out the door. The entire exchange would last no more than 10 minutes. That sort of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace