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- 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
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
the BRI is considered one of the most ambitious infrastructure undertakings ever conceived. It comprises a vast collection of development and investment projects stretching from East Asia to Africa to Europe. This signature foreign policy... View Details
- February 1993 (Revised December 1994)
- Exercise
Corporate Financial Management: Options Exercises
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
This case presents four exercises designed to introduce students to applications of option pricing and decision-tree analysis to real corporate investment problems. Two of the four problems involve decision trees and two involve option pricing. Students should be... View Details
Luehrman, Timothy A. "Corporate Financial Management: Options Exercises." Harvard Business School Exercise 293-095, February 1993. (Revised December 1994.)
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Design Moguls
The HBS Design Fair 2000, held December 4 in Kresge Hall, showcased final projects for the MBA elective course, Managing Product Development, taught by Associate Professor Stefan Thomke. Second-year students... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
while I was making the decisions. Let’s just say,” he notes, “I’m a big believer in serendipity.” Murphy went to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer after graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in business and working briefly as a View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and... View Details
- Profile
Kayode Ogunro
employer. How has HBS prepared you for your new job? My job will require a substantial amount of travel to Europe and Africa and more hands on management of deals and projects than I would face with a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
by Talent Alpha, which appears to act as an agency. Therefore the client has to have a decent process to manage remote programmers, bring them into project teams, and test and integrate their code. Perhaps... View Details
- February 2006 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Tad O'Malley: June 2005
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Tad O'Malley, a new associate at Empire Investment Group, a top-tier leveraged buyout firm, must evaluate three different deals and recommend which should receive additional resources for further investigation. He must consider the specifics of each company and each... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Resource Allocation; Private Equity; Projects; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation; Leveraged Buyouts
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Tad O'Malley: June 2005." Harvard Business School Case 806-078, February 2006. (Revised September 2006.)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
will help it thrive in captivity? Three professors in the School’s Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it’s a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree... View Details
- May 1990 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor (Abridged)
By: Linda A. Hill
Covers the same material concerning the specific transfer of technology as described in the longer version but summarizes the environmental and organizational context of the transfer. Most appropriate when the instructor wishes to focus on the action questions. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Conflict Management; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Employees; Competitive Strategy; Projects
Hill, Linda A. "Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 490-094, May 1990. (Revised December 1998.)
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
design "programs" or sequences of projects over time in order that learning is maximized. Most past research on innovation has focused on the management of individual projects. As a result, we know... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation, creating jobs for thousands. Not... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
@Soldiers Field
IT’S A WRAP Above: In December, Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih (with Harvard Business Publishing’s Dave Di Iulio) filmed a video on the topic of digital transformation at the Klarman Studio soundstage—one of three studios... View Details