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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
result in deterioration of financial performance. Fixed- and sunk-cost conventional wisdom confers an unfair advantage on challengers and shackles incumbent firms that attempt to respond to an attack. Executives in established companies,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Risk Authors: Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we explore the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
leaders in the field, from attending conferences related to this work, I identified that there are five things that matter most for joy and well-being. And I've talked with some researchers, some affiliated with Harvard, who've confirmed... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
BR: Many days, I worked in the conference room and people would come in and I remember once going out and there was a young girl, she couldn’t have been more than 18 years old. And she was just in terrible shape. I went over and started... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
dignity—all of which can translate into fewer medical needs, Kiuchi says. As with many of Mediva’s innovations, the government is taking notice of the successes, citing them in conferences and papers, and finding ways to build on these... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
the importance of the organization and had a similar vision for it," Ma says. "There's no way I could have done this job - or survived it - without her. I've never valued a partnership so much." Working together, the leaders helped spearhead many activities, including... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
on their laurels"—are messages he has offered as the author of two books on brand management, an expert commentator in television and print media, and a speaker at major conferences and events. "Consulting companies need to establish a... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
anywhere in the country. Similarly, as accelerators and conferences move online, they are more accessible to entrepreneurs whose financial or family situation limits travel. The Female Founders Alliance embraced the opportunity this... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
have been hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada. Web sites dedicated to such topics now pepper the Internet. Even the World Economic... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
of innovative plan.” Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management and the host of an HBS conference last summer that examined Massachusetts’s health-care reforms, says hordes of curious officials from across the country have come to see... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
occasioned a debate over the appropriate regulatory and tax treatment of these funds. In particular, it has been argued that the tax exemption currently enjoyed by SWFs confers an advantage on these entities as providers of capital to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
HBS, in which two-thirds of the student body are members. Their activities, which are open to the entire HBS community, range from running conferences to leading study trips abroad and from organizing major social events to sponsoring... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
recovering from two intensive weeks at COP27, the UN Climate Change Conference held last year in Sharm El-Sheikh. As a host-country representative for the World Resources Institute, she helped move the ball forward on a range of climate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Modularity in Software Ecosystems: How SugarCRM's IP and Business Model Shape Its Product Architecture Authors:Watl, Josef, Joachim Henkel, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Publication:Software Business: Proceedings of the Third International View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Issues - Alumni
Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War Complete Table of Contents August 1998 High Honors In May, the School's annual Alumni Achievement Award was conferred upon six alumni, while two faculty members received the HBS Distinguished Service... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
employees hired from smaller towns have lower attrition rates compared to those hired from large cities. We provide evidence that the extra payoff conferred by higher productivity and lower attrition rates sufficiently outweigh the extra... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting had concluded. Anderson, CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Risk Management to Equity and Credit Analysis Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly 24 (December 2007) Abstract Traditional conventions of accounting and actuarial science distort the valuation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace