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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
"to give a little back to America" in appreciation for the United States' support in rebuilding postwar Europe, Andresen notes. In announcing the new professorship, HBS Dean Kim B. Clark stated, "The timing of this gift couldn't be... View Details
Barry Schwartz
$105 million of which was borrowed. Deals like this were typical of Schwartz’s skill and because of it Calvin Klein grew to have sales of over $1 billion by 1984. View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
John P. Morgan, Jr.
Morgan Jr. continued his father’s methods and policies in dealing with industry, railroads, banks and other institutions and grew J. P. Morgan and Company’s business. He made his most important impact through government-financed projects... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
spirit-ual advances might overtake the forces of materialism. Throughout the 1930s, Bulletin articles dealt gamely with a dark side of business barely imaginable to most of the magazine's current readership - bank runs, depression, New... View Details
David L. Geffen
Four years before owning his record label outright, Geffen structured a deal with Warner Communications to provide distribution services and financial underwriting. Geffen was extremely adept at spotting and promoting talent. He convinced... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
Friday, January 27, the new administration issued an executive order that restricts entry, including reentry, into the U.S. for citizens and nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen on both immigrant visas... View Details
- May 2008
- Supplement
Tribune Company, 2007 (CW)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
This case describes the proposed acquisition of Tribune Company by Sam Zell in 2007. Tribune Company is one of the largest newspapers and broadcasting companies in the United States. Zell's proposed acquisition is unusual in several respects. It is two-tiered, employs... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
Africa and attended an alumni event focused on climate adaptation and urban economic development. This is what we learned: Adaptation finance is real. People we talked to from organizations like the Global Green Growth Institute, African... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
goal: to help big-brand marketing leaders with everything from dealing with vendors to establishing a social brand identity to managing crucial conversations at every level of the organization. The New... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor Benjamin C. Esty, the author, with senior case researcher Aldo Sesia, of Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers, a View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa
By: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin and L. Alexander Green
In 1976, United States Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger conducted a series of intricate, multiparty negotiations in Southern Africa to persuade white Rhodesian leader Ian Smith to accede to black majority rule. Conducted near the end of President Gerald Ford’s... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Negotiation Process; Race; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal; Government and Politics; Africa; United States
Sebenius, James K., R. Nicholas Burns, Robert H. Mnookin, and L. Alexander Green. "Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Southern Africa." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-051, December 2016.
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
went far beyond the boardroom. He endeared himself to several people thanks to his humility, kindness and an unwavering commitment to making our society better.” The New York Times detailed Tata’s far-reaching philanthropies in India,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
organize a project that spans professions, industries, and even nations? A new book by Amy Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds describes the approach of 'big teaming' with a case study of a high-profile smart city. Don’t be afraid to be a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
and had little leverage to force the company to lower the price of electricity and offer green energy. “We are ready to take up these fights on behalf of the communities,” Riley says. One of the first was in northern View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
To better understand the prospects for future entrepreneurial success in sustainable industries, Professor Geoffrey Jones looks to the past. In his chapter in the new book Green Capitalism?, for instance,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
Bruce Knecht (MBA ’86) reveals in his new book, Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish (Rodale, 2006). The author, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, details an Australian patrol boat’s 4,000-mile chase of an illegal fishing... View Details
- February 2016 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Scaling Well by Doing Good: Motivating Talent at b.good
By: Francesca Gino, Paul Green Jr. and Bradley Staats
Boston-based fast-casual chain b.good was founded on the idea of healthy food, sourced locally, and prepared in-store. The founders had built a value-based business and worked hard to cultivate a sense of family—among employees, customers, and suppliers. In 2015, they... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Values; Corporate Culture; Growth Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Values and Beliefs; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; New England
Gino, Francesca, Paul Green Jr., and Bradley Staats. "Scaling Well by Doing Good: Motivating Talent at b.good." Harvard Business School Case 916-031, February 2016. (Revised September 2017.)
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
airfield, were now under insurgent control. The OSS believed that a sustained Slovak rebellion could create a new front in the sprawling war, splitting the weakening Axis forces. The Slovak partisans just needed a little help holding the... View Details