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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
Ben Feder (MBA 1991) and Victoria Lindenbaum Feder (MBA 1994) When Ben Feder attended his 25th Reunion, he was inspired by something that then Dean Nitin Nohria said: “HBS has the power to change lives.” Feder, a history major at Columbia University who had View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
Download Jonathan Nelson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1977 Earns BS, Economics, Brown University 1977 Joins Wellman International to work in China 1983 Earns MBA 1983... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
integration. The cases also focus on general managers from companies around the globe in an effort to mirror the international mix of participants. "We try to have cases that reflect the people in the group. More importantly, we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
"passions" and the "impartial spectator." What did he mean by this? A: Smith believed that much of human behavior was under the influence of the "passions"—emotions such as fear and anger, and drives such as hunger and sex—but these... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online
right thing. Mayank Dubey Manager, Marketing Communications Sustainable Business Strategy The course content is well designed and helps investors get a basic understanding of what sustainable finance is, its challenges, the path forward,... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program
hindsight, I don’t think any of us would have ever imagined just how meaningful our bonds were about to become. I shook hands with brilliant folks hailing from consulting, engineering, and finance fields - to name a few - who would soon... View Details
- January 2023
- Teaching Note
The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details
Keywords: Opioids; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
- 30 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
different countries. He also served briefly as Austria's finance minister and worked for 3 years as an investment banker, where he made a fortune that he promptly lost in a stock market crash. So he wasn't a typical academic, even though... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
can be blended up to 10% without the need to retrofit or replace the existing assets. BTG Bioliquids first fast pyrolysis facility, Empyro, was financed by the EU and Dutch development funds and some private investors. Its business case... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
Developing skill as an effective acquirer is an important muscle for scaling companies and now is a great time to test out that skill. 6. Consider financing There is a ton of money out there looking for great companies to invest in. Funds... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- March 2009
- Article
Risk Management and Calculative Cultures
By: Anette Mikes
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has recently emerged as a widespread practice in financial institutions. It has been increasingly codified and encrypted into regulatory, corporate governance and organisational management blueprints. A burgeoning literature of... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Practice; Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Value; Business and Shareholder Relations; Managerial Roles; Culture; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business or Company Management; Financial Services Industry
Mikes, Anette. "Risk Management and Calculative Cultures." Management Accounting Research 20, no. 1 (March 2009): 18–40. (
Winner of David Solomons Prize For the best paper in each annual volume of Management Accounting Research presented by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
.)- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
a level playing field with big business that can spend millions, perhaps billions, to launch a new product or service." Others set forth reasons for inequities in international competition and how they might be rectified. Andy Forbis... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
corporation for dozens of music labels, where he served as vice president of finance and operations. Then Sean “P. Diddy” Combs came calling in 1998, alerted to Ferguson’s expertise by Kimberley Hatchett-Maitland (MBA 1991), who was... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
Another benefit of being a joint degree student is the flexibility to complete two summer internships in different fields during the 3-year program. Last year, I interned at a climate VC fund called KawiSafi Ventures in Nairobi, Kenya.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
and view this page again, you will be able to play this video. Jeffrey Fear Jeffrey Fear has been an associate professor at Harvard Business School since 2001 in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit. Chandler's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Working Paper
The Appeal of the Appropriate: Accounting, Risk Management, and the Competition for the Supply of Control Systems
By: Anette Mikes
How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate the aftermath of a control debacle at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on its insurance... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Multiple Control Systems; Interactive Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Risk Measurement; Financialization Of Accounting; Institutional Logics; Banking; Risk Management; Fair Value Accounting; Insurance; Financial Services Industry
Mikes, Anette. "The Appeal of the Appropriate: Accounting, Risk Management, and the Competition for the Supply of Control Systems." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-115, June 2012. (Revised January 2013.)