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- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
recorded voice thanked me for cooperating and assured me that the poll would take only two minutes. The first question was, "On a scale of 1 (low) and 5 (high) how would you rate your overall experience?" I pressed the "1" on my phone.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
production, our group visited Maersk, one of the world’s largest shipping companies with 707 vessels and Denmark’s largest company ($81.5B in revenue in 2022), 206th on the Fortune global 500 rankings. Maersk was at the epicenter of recent supply chain turbulence, with... View Details
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Capital Allocation" (May 2023) with Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. Ishita Sen : Received an INQUIRE Europe Research Grant in 2024 for “The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices” with... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
disciplines from which such a model could be produced—foundered for many years on disagreements about the nature of business firms and the ultimate purpose of business. The decision (made very early in the history of university-based... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
"private-public entrepreneurs" who establish private businesses that sell to government agencies or sometimes to citizens directly. In Philadelphia, for example, Textizen enables citizens to communicate with city health and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
and build and manage new systems. Throughout, the HBS community worked together to overcome the complexities inherent in this hybrid approach. Students Arrive More than 9,300 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 800 applicants in the Doctoral... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
it possible that a month before the collapse, rating agencies such as Moody's and Fitch still ranked the country and the bank investment grade credit? What can we learn? Why did real estate perform so... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
Value. She is a former brand manager at Gillette, AT&T, and Samuel Adams and an advertising agency executive, and remains close to practice by serving as a board member, consultant, educator, and advisor to companies and their... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate commensurate with the resulting needs. To... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
it was an advertising bro fest, but also a reflection of the cultural norms of the time. After all, the 1960s was the dawn of the golden age of advertising when agencies were evolving from product pitchers to storytellers. That first... View Details
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Harvard Business School
public and public charter high school student college enrollment rate and establishing DC-CAP as a national leader in college retention research and practice. Reginald Van Lee MBA 1984 Reginald Van Lee is a philanthropist, arts advocate,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
confidence in credit rating agencies? The first thing Congress did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology
the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “The ratings given by the large commercial ratings agencies are on the whole... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts
the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits As pioneers of the nascent information industry, the nineteenth-century credit ratings firms survived near-fatal attacks on several fronts.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
Gender Equality Agency, a position she calls “a very clear practice and policy leadership opportunity, backed by data.” The government organization, established in 1986 as the Affirmative Action Agency, is tasked with promoting and improving gender equality in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been attracted by the relatively high... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you are a bond issuer and you don't like what one rating View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
allow us to examine how teams experience status disagreement over time, and client ratings demonstrate how coordination and conflict ultimately affect team performance with clients. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
there. That’s OK, if they are tightened. A return to common sense is overdue. We need a dramatic retooling of risk management and portfolio selection. The regulatory techniques and the rating agency... View Details