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- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
businesses were often treated as a portfolio of investments rather than an integrated worldwide business. Such cultural influences were very evident in Lever Brothers and later Unilever, where the important overseas operations were... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
and New York," she says. Investing in entrepreneurs is smart for American competitiveness, says Karen Mills.Photo: iStockPhoto She also notes a lack of capital in America's supply chains, particularly small and innovative... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
suitable education, and in the spring of 1921, Doriot enrolled at HBS. His first job the next year was at the New York & Foreign Development Corporation (an affiliate of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Company), where he assessed View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
required to support them. Further, government payment for sick people's health care expenses will diminish the massive venture capital investment needed for developing genomically-derived therapies. We stand at the brink of a revolution... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
H.Watson, Yu-Sheng Zheng Abstract In this paper, we study managers' errors in decision making for inventory replenishment and how these errors affect their inventory system. In particular, primarily for its expected relationship with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
of the industry cannot be overemphasized: they included pioneering players who launched important firms and invested in some of society's most important companies. As VC increasingly becomes a worldwide phenomenon, moreover, HBS will... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
School Case 112-085 Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, and Jessica A. Hohman The case illustrates how a leading German hospital group has invested deeply in the measurement of patient-level outcomes and costs, the foundations of a... View Details
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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog
spring course, Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) 1418, students cannot take both of them. Career Focus This course provides a general management perspective on corporate finance and is designed to improve your ability to make strategic and operating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select local nonprofit leaders to receive... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
balances the four drives while avoiding negative leadership and leaders who are missing the drive to bond. Order the Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470623845.html Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"
benefits of the degree. As I described in the article “The MBA as a Finance Case” in The Harbus, the bottom line is that the degree quickly pays for itself and more, and alumni typically see increases in long-run compensation of many multiples of the View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
"cat note" that offered a high yield, but with a chance of losing the full investment if severe hurricanes struck the coastline of the United States. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
have the time and resources to study my longer-term professional goals. I distinctly remember the joy and clarity of vision that I felt upon receiving the admissions decision email: “The answer is YES!” Upon arriving in Boston, I arranged... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
well as leading thinkers and decision makers, to discuss ways to make the US savings system more secure and inclusive. Ackerley’s group, in partnership with insurers, also announced an innovative investment... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
view the process as being as rational as possible. These criteria will be guidelines, not rules, as final decisions will always require subjective judgment. Involve outsiders. Parents can attest to how hard it is to be objective about... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
the investment and financing decisions that are made during the development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking?... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
on Wall Street. And W.R. Grace's Peter Grace told us he wouldn't invest in Third World countries unless he had over 50 percent ownership. What would he say today? Verbosity ruled. Classroom performances were supplemented by mutterings... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)