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01 Jun 2004
News

Alumni Bookshelf

Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis’s latest book takes an inside look at The Capital Group Companies, revealing the people, practices, and values that have brought this firm consistent success. Manager’s... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

joint degree community. Harvard fosters this through the joint degree seminar each year, which enables us to thread together what we learn in both schools to act as "tri-sector" leaders across the public, private and non-profit... View Details

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

finance and macroeconomics are made in the face of uncertainty and beliefs play a central role. In the past few years, I have studied how non-financial firms in the U.S. exploit capital market frictions and act as arbitrageurs across... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

HIV/AIDS and Business

she continues — even a small bicycle shop in China could rent or loan bicycles to deliver medication. “My sense is that people are innately sympathetic. If you provide specific tools, it makes it easier for them to act in a responsible... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

10 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 10

specific type of "risk talk" as a legitimate, cross-functional language of business. Thereby the risk-management function may be most successful when it resists conventional and conflicting demands to be either close to, or independent from, business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

associated with improved productivity are also linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Download the paper: http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/BloomGenakosMartinSadun.pdf Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

different kind of adaptability: the proactive vision to anticipate changes before they happen, and the courage to act on that vision quickly. Here, I might highlight as an example how Sal Khan of Khan Academy was among the first to see... View Details

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

We can’t know what will happen, but we have a good sense for what might or could happen. Don’t wait for the one moment of indisputable truth to emerge; act on the odds presented in the information available today in sea rise curves, flood... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

responsibility didn’t know more and act sooner. As someone with experience on more than a dozen for-profit boards, I understand why directors find it so difficult to acquire enough knowledge and information to carry out their duties to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Feb 2016
First Look

February 23, 2016

Hong Luo Abstract— In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)—which required... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

leadership has been associated with change. It's not about mobilizing a group to act the same way they have always acted. It has to do with changing people and their organizations so they can leap into a different and better future, no... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

Harvard Business School, has written recently decrying the practice of tying executive compensation to a company's stock price. He equates P4P to "outsourcing" the appraisal of management to compensation committees—a practice that encourages managers to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jan 2010
What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

to lead the way, forcing other countries to act with or without an agreement? And should countries that will benefit most from the entrepreneurial opportunity, as Bharath Krishnan and Ajay Kumar Gupta implied, help finance others? What do... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

admission by Alan Greenspan that markets acted in ways he had not anticipated? The work shares several common counter-intuitive conclusions that: (1) human behavior is much less rational than has been assumed, (2) this renders much of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 May 2023
Blog Post

Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates

people being able to use their discretion to hire people who are just like them, that they are comfortable with, that look like them, that act like them, that talk like them.” One way to counter the interviewer’s reliance on the “soft... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

January 27, 2020 – the beginning of my second semester here at HBS: January 28, 2020: Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution February 10, 2020: Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act February 13, 2020:... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

lifelong learning in the climate space. There’s so much momentum, why not capitalize on it now. What do you see as HBS’s, and BEI’s, role in confronting climate change? BEI and HBS can act as a conduit for providing information about what... View Details

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

1970s, the seeds of change for ARD were in the air. The Small Business Investment Act of 1953 had promoted the creation of small business investment corporations (SBICs) through financial support and loans. Over time, the financial... View Details

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Affinity Groups | Employment

of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Sherri Charleston, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging acts as a convener, catalyst, capacity builder and community building resource. A wide array of workshops, events, and... View Details

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