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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
from his Burden Hall audience. Asked about outsourcing and whether the U.S. government should offer tax inducements to counter it, Buffett replied that he saw outsourcing as “a small part of a much, much bigger problem.” He explained that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
acted when the stakes were high; from his growing depth as a moral actor; and from his sheer will to get up each morning and do what he could in service to his mission. In early September, Union forces scored a critical military victory.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
services than we can take on. Organizationally, we’ve taken this from concept to reality in just about two years’ time. We need about $250,000 to meet our annual budget, but if someone gave us $5 million tomorrow we could easily scale up,... View Details
- Profile
Ann Chao
was one in which a school of massage therapy offered free training for blind students who went on to work in massage clinics, which funded the school. “I was intrigued by the private-sector approach – a way to address problems from the ground up as opposed to View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
hospitals treating civilians wounded in the war as well as schools and social service providers supporting the refugees. “Only 9 percent of refugees in Turkey live in refugee camps,” says Fabbe, who has long studied migration in Turkey.... View Details
- August 2022
- Case
SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Scott Duke Kominers, and Amy Klopfenstein. "SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO." Harvard Business School Case 823-027, August 2022.
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
audience. Imagine, he asked, that you could carry in your pocket a miniature governing board composed of several individual voices and characters whose collective judgment could be called on in times of need. For his own “pocket board,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
into three interrelated parts. First, students learn about the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of companies and their leaders. Next, they look at organizational systems and governance structures that can foster responsible... View Details
- April 2016
- Teaching Note
The Fall of the 'Fabulous Fab'
By: Eugene F. Soltes
Teaching note for HBS Case#114-063 View Details
Keywords: Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
Soltes, Eugene F. "The Fall of the 'Fabulous Fab'." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 116-056, April 2016. (request a courtesy copy.)
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
members' prior experience working with one another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the benefits of diversity in team member experience by alleviating coordination problems that diversity creates. We use detailed project- and individual-level data from an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
the twentieth century, companies relied on a "full-service" agency for most or all of their advertising service needs, including both creative development and media planning and buying. Agencies were compensated primarily by commissions... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
connection to practice—were established during his tenure. He shaped the School in profound and long-lasting ways.” The son of a traveling dentist, Donham (AB 1898, LLB 1901) majored in government at Harvard College, where he graduated... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Colombia
style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">Colombia's National Administrative Department of Statistics The Government... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Leadership and Innovation in a New Global Economy So-Young Kang (MBA 2004) (Awaken Group Pte. Ltd.) Too often, people look at leaders and focus on their accomplishments and successes, but Kang examines the more human side of 12 Singaporean business and View Details
- Fast Answer
Historical Research - India
Service (FBIS) FBIS is a United States government agency which translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
service agencies. Employees who volunteer individually and through organized company programs bring renewed enthusiasm to the workplace. Scoon: Our company has benefited in three ways from social enterprise activity. First, we take pride... View Details
- March 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Microsoft.NET
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Set in the summer of 2000, following the unveiling of Microsoft's .NET initiative to the public. Three of the key figures in .NET's development are considering the next steps they would have to take to keep the initiative moving forward. Specifically, the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Policy; Business Model; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Microsoft.NET." Harvard Business School Case 602-086, March 2002. (Revised August 2002.)
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
Asia, and Israel, it has an international presence and a record of big hits that began in the 1980s with companies such as AOL and Apple and continues to this day with investments in industries as diverse as high tech and health care, financial View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
healthy workers, benefit their reputations, and engender greater consumer and employee loyalty. Healthy communities also have more money to spend on non health care products and services than unhealthy ones. Underappreciated benefits... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
compensation at least since proponents of agency theory 25 years ago began advocating the use of stock options in compensation packages. Its use is a source of praise in the evaluation of governance by rating agencies that provide... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett