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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

href="https://pib.gov.in/">Press Information Bureau Passport: search “India” to find a variety of consumer, economic, and industry... View Details

02 Jan 2019
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SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

incompetent entrepreneur that wants to steal from the better firm and distort the market is accountable only to his bank account and ethics. So we need someone capable enough to make sure markets remain free and fair an AI czar would work... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

for several years before joining Novantas, a start-up consulting firm located in New York. The first eighteen months, she recalled, were "absolutely wonderful. I felt like my mentors at the firm were really excited about the work I was generating." When the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Case Study: Let’s Dance

board chairman role to begin working on a related venture, a mutual bank to support lending to local food and farming businesses.) The changes slashed errors in half and doubled their packing speed. Operations have increased six-fold in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

April 2025 (Revised June 2025)
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Governing Sustainability in a Shifting Context (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

In early 2025, boards of directors had to rethink corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts amid rapidly-shifting social, legal, regulatory, and economic forces. While just a few years earlier, calls to address racial justice and climate change reached into... View Details

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01 Dec 2004
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One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

called upon Wall Street and corporate executives “to create a new environment of integrity and accountability.” He seemed uniquely suited to lead that effort. Donaldson was cofounder, with two HBS colleagues, chairman and CEO of the investment View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

qualitatively confirm the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton. [Duranton, G., 2007. "Urban Evolutions: The Fast, the Slow, and the Still." American Economic Review 97, 197.221]. Download the paper... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2013
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A Walkabout to the Ocean

environmental career that started on the banks of the Rhine River. Merkl grew up in Cologne, Germany in the 1960s—a time when the Rhine was so polluted that anyone even daring to wade into it risked arrest. "It stank, literally," recalls... View Details

Keywords: Ocean; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow

“excess” cash holdings. The definition of excess cash holdings will be critical. But such levels easily could be defined relative to industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Implementing a... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

develop an inductive theory of "IP modularity," from which we derive testable propositions and managerial implications. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-097.pdf Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Viktor Puzakov

was interested in going to an investment bank; the interview process gave me a chance to test the environment. It was a big eye-opener. I realized I wanted a more balanced life and that investment banking was not something I wanted to... View Details

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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library

The Case Method Classroom The very essence of the case method is group discussion. . . .Long experience has shown that special facilities are needed in order that students may hear, see and talk freely with one another. Winthrop W. Aldrich ; President & Chairman of the... View Details

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Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

types of organizations that I’m interested in are those trying to combine social development logic with commercial logic in an innovative way. In the case of commercial microfinance organizations, they are breaking with the archetypal View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

trading partners, a considerable amount of time is spent transferring physical documents back and forth between traders, banks, and ports—as well as managing hundreds of emails to keep different parties in the loop. “When you look at the commodity space in general,... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

01 Mar 2007
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Private Equity under Investigation

Medina flagged a half-century ago seem destined to be repeated. Far from being a static industry with ossified giants, private equity features brutal competition and enormous dynamism. Groups that were dominant just a few years ago, such... View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

02 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

at HBS spotlighting experts across public and private sectors have been exciting to watch. Not to mention, I have made some life-long friends along the way. My background in health care I began my career at J.P. Morgan (JPM), working in their health care investment... View Details

19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

settings. We find evidence consistent with this proposition for 68 currency and systemic banking crises in 17 countries from 1983 to 2005. We exploit a key publicly disclosed signal of fundamentals that drives financial markets, namely... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

she drove a successful digital transformation at the Royal Bank of Canada, board service felt like the right next step. She joined her first large company board, CIBC Bancorp USA, in 2022. Having multiple domains of expertise has been... View Details

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

with the case method, helping to shape business education programs and business leaders around the world. Lehman Brothers 1850-2008 The history of Lehman Brothers, stretching over a century and a half, reflects the role of investment View Details

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