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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
civil disobedience. This really matters—as Erica Chenworth’s research has shown, no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5 percent of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating. How... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
open source software projects, raising millions of dollars for open source security in the last six years. Public interest in FOSS security has renewed in the past few years as government agencies in the United States push for deeper... View Details
- September 2022 (Revised September 2024)
- Case
Esas Group: Investing Together, Staying Together
By: Christina R. Wing and Alpana Thapar
This case opens in June 2022, after Esas Group, one of Turkey’s largest family-owned investment firms, implements a series of changes to professionalize the business and help transition family members from operators to responsible investors. In December 2019, the Group... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Transition; Business or Company Management; Organizational Structure; Governing and Advisory Boards; Governance; Financial Services Industry; Turkey
Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "Esas Group: Investing Together, Staying Together." Harvard Business School Case 623-027, September 2022. (Revised September 2024.)
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
way things are, like water to a fish or the air we breathe. What's to notice? What's to change? To make progress on this problem, people must take risks, learn new ways, experiment. The notion that the basic organizing principles that View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
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Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
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Ignacio Lartirigoyen
agribusiness in the U.S. through his upcoming role with Bayer/Monsanto in St. Louis, where he will be part of a team focusing on digital innovation. "Eventually," he says, "I'd like to return to Latin America as a leader in... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- November 2010
- Case
Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On May 7, 1998, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, chaired by Brooksley Born, issued a "Concept Release" inviting public comment on the relevance and appropriateness of existing regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, a market with a... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; District of Columbia
Rose, Clayton S., and David Lane. "Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-044, November 2010.
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
profit is by selling complementary goods and services. For example, IBM sells consulting services and proprietary software that are complementary to the OS software it develops, and Sun sells complementary hardware such as servers.... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
theoretical extensions of the proposed integrated theory. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-056.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product Author:Deishin Lee Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
decentralized nature of building and financing homes posed obstacles to private organizations who tried to do the same. Anecdotal accounts, like this feature in the Ladies Home Journal in 1903, suggest that most home-buyers cobbled together financing from a variety of... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
organizations face a similar set of challenging questions as they enter the twenty-first century. How should they respond to the increasing number of complex emergencies? To what extent should they cooperate with national governments and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
director of the New York Times Company. Robert F. McDermott (MBA '50) Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Chairman Emeritus, USAA In 1993, after a 25-year tenure at the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), General Robert... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in ways that Doriot had seen... View Details
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
vulnerable areas more resilient and decide when to rebuild, restrict development, or retreat Economic development and innovative technologies have contributed to climate change—and are also essential to address it. Government policies can... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
the global economy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-037.pdf Management and the Financial Crisis (We have Met the Enemy and He Is Us ) Author:William A. Sahlman Abstract The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1) - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
- August 2020 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
George Soros: The Stateless Statesman
By: Geoffrey Jones and Wendy Ying
This case traces the business career and philanthropic activities of George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros made a fortune as a hedge fund investor after establishing Quantum Fund on the tax haven island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles in 1973 where he was... View Details
Keywords: Hedge Fund; Philanthropy; Populism; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Hungary; United Kingdom; North and Central America; United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and Wendy Ying. "George Soros: The Stateless Statesman." Harvard Business School Case 321-012, August 2020. (Revised November 2022.)
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
threat responses and their implications for research on identity dynamics within organizations. Working PapersThe Impact of Supplier Reliability Tracking on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne