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- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
purpose company” with employees in London, New York, Singapore, New Zealand, and Sydney, with a new office opening soon in Toronto. Aside from generating big tax dollars for the UK, BIT has seen successes in areas ranging from reducing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
technological advancements, but also ensure the social engagement of vulnerable members of society, such as farmers. Daniel Tong: After graduating I will go back to Brazil. I believe the country has enormous potential to lead emerging View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time, but Europe (even the United... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Says Gould, "The provision of adequate housing for people at all income levels is a problem that's never going to be solved by free-market economics. Only the federal government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
the formation of funds to the investment of the funds in operating companies to the liquidation of those investments. A wide range of topics is considered, including the structure of venture partnerships, how venture capitalists oversee firms, how they are compensated,... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Innovation Authors:Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Financial Economics Abstract We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
miracle. Professor David B. Yoffie served as informal moderator and faculty chair. Global Gathering Early in the opening session on April 6, conference chairman Robert Piccus and HBS Dean Kim B. Clark welcomed the international group,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
businesspeople, we've seen ourselves as helpless" in eradicating seemingly intractable problems like poverty, he said. Though giving money and volunteering time are good things to do, a better solution, he insisted, is to apply View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting
Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
the Journal of Financial Economics, a leading finance journal and joint sponsor of the two-day conference. "We're going to discuss the papers themselves to advance our understanding of the topic at hand," said Tufano in his opening... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Silicon Valley dot-comers. This seemed to be everybody's idea of success. A Nation Rethinks Success After the market crash in 2000, there was talk that Moore's Law had reached its theoretical limits and perhaps the pace of innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
complex. Which is literally the best training complex in the world. Which we just opened last year. So speaking specifically of Philadelphia, we decided to create an environment that was going to be fun, uplifting and an incredible place... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
grateful; clients are active and demanding, said Chu. Though it is not the answer for everyone (not all enterprises merit a loan, he said) and it is only one way in which a market has opened to serve the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
‘cost-out’ to seeing it as a value creation lever. One that most businesses need to learn how to manage just as effectively as, and align with, their financial performance”. van Poecke and Schoonbeek started researching the evolution of the broader ESG View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
achievement'" (Dennis Nelson); "the level that does not allow segments of activity to capture regulators or regulations while also ensuring support for the disadvantaged and those in poverty" (Peter Bowie); one that promotes " View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
worries about losing focus on the hospitality business. The other side of that: If those pilots prove successful, they could open up a new core business. And with the market getting crowded—with heavies like... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
countries. The Creating Emerging Markets project is sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Business History Initiative. We spoke with Oberholzer-Gee, who conducted both interviews in early 2015, to discuss the differences and similarities... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details