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01 Mar 2016
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bring much-needed accountability into the system? —Jim Mills (MBA 1986) Tim Draper’s investment in the school voucher campaign was not for naught. It caused the legislature to panic and pass a surprisingly progressive charter school law... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Floor It

The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

01 Dec 2011
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Peak Earth?

investment advice.” Grantham, who has established a foundation to raise awareness about environmental issues and promote collaboration within the green movement, sees dark decades ahead and potential disaster if we don’t change our ways.... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

June 2001 (Revised December 2006)
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Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Gillian D Elcock

Set in the context of the rise and fall of the Internet stocks in the United States. View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Price Bubble; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States

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01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas

graduates emerge ill-educated, Bistany counters); Investing money in education and schools raises quality (when what's important is how many books a student reads, not how big the library is); and Learning by memorizing is bad (rote... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

Secretary Samuel Bodman added his voice to those who say that critical decisions must be made without delay. “We are overly dependent on fossil fuels and will only become more so unless we make some critical investments now to truly... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

leadership of Henderson and Professor Forest Reinhardt, the BEI coordinates the activities of a large group of Harvard faculty members from multiple disciplines in an effort, Henderson says, "to create new business models that encourage sensible View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

01 Oct 2001
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A Janus-Faced Reflection

way of mirroring what's going on among graduates. It seems unlikely that we will just walk away from the new economy, which many in the class helped create. As Dave Frost wrote in a 1998 class note, "Have you noticed how many of us are involved in corporate... View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Information; Information; Information; Information

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href="https://candid.org/research-and-verify-nonprofits/990-finder" target="_blank">990 Finder for nonprofit information in IRS filings. Foundation Directory: Directory of over 10,000 public and private foundations. View Details

July 2003 (Revised June 2010)
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FrontPoint Partners

By: Jay O. Light

A hedge fund platform, a new and unique kind of asset management firm, contemplates various client markets for its services. View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Service Delivery; Financial Services Industry

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01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built

Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Club Conferences | MBA

Club Conferences Student club conferences are run by student clubs. For more information on any of these, please contact the club directly. Please note: conference dates are subject to change and ticket availability may be limited. 2025... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Case Study: Something New

the largest player in this industry is still pretty small,” says Malkina. “The biggest thing to figure out is how we can grow at or below our optimal customer acquisition cost at a much greater scale. We have the cash to invest in... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research

agronomist researches the matter and sends a tailored reply within 24 hours. The more information a farmer shares with PAD—about planting practices, market prices, or soil conditions—the more its recommendations improve with time. “The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

company’s investment in the online social entertainment world. The researchers started playing Fortnite during the pandemic “to break the monotony of constant Zoom meetings,” Wu says. But soon, they found themselves spending real money on... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Information Technology; Information Technology

01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services

“That makes it easier to promote events, and the club has a real-time view into event registration. It is very useful for a smaller club like Oregon because it allows nontechnical volunteers to set up and maintain a Web site with little effort. We would not View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; alumni groups; website; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Pharmaceuticals: Company Data and Analysis

not only information on pharma companies, but also covers drug pipelines and global trials, pharma deals, drug sales, and patents. Access is available to HBS AND HU students, staff and faculty onsite at Baker Library (users must be... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Helping high achievers achieve even more

venture capital firm that has invested in, and provided strategic guidance to, more than 365 businesses across North America, Europe, and Asia. Stamps passed the torch to his management team in 2001 so that he could focus his considerable... View Details

26 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-106.pdf Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model Authors:Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman, and William Schmidt Abstract We investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Mi Zhou

“An MBA,” she says, “would give me access to resources and information to test my interests.” HBS’ general -anagement program appealed to Mi. “If I want to move up,” she says, “it’s all about managing people in different functions from... View Details

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