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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
security-first mindset across HBS to proactively identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities. We also ensure compliance with privacy standards and regulations while establishing balanced security policies that address cyber-risks in...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the View Details
- December 2013
- Case
Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A)
Isolated by the KGB in Moscow, Harvard graduate student Bruce Allyn faces high-pressure negotiation tactics to recruit him for the Soviet spy agency. At the tense height of the Cold War, with CIA agents systematically being exposed and executed in Russia, Allyn was...
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Negotiation;
Bargaining;
Hard Bargaining;
KGB;
Espionage;
Spying;
War;
National Security;
Alliances;
Ethics;
Negotiation Tactics;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Negotiation Participants;
Negotiation Offer;
Cambridge;
Moscow;
Soviet Union
Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (A)." Harvard Business School Case 914-027, December 2013.
- March 2006
- Case
Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds
By: Malcolm P. Baker and Elizabeth Kind
Howard Atkins, the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, is considering issuing $3 billion in convertible debt. With an investment-grade credit rating, Wells Fargo is not the typical issuer of convertible securities, but the market conditions in 2003 are unusual....
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Capital Structure;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Debt Securities;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Strategy;
Banking Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and Elizabeth Kind. "Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds." Harvard Business School Case 206-022, March 2006.
George Eastman
Eastman invented film and the inexpensive camera, and in turn created the multi-billion dollar photography industry. Eastman acquired all the photographic paper producers in America and secured the motion picture film market for Eastman...
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Fabricated Goods
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Curtis pioneered many tactics that are hallmarks of modern magazine publishing including securing large-scale advertising revenue by building mass circulation through low subscription prices, introducing market research for target...
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Publishing & Print Media
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa
right soil nutrition can substantially increase its carbon-sequestering capabilities. He argues that this “leapfrogging” of traditional agricultural development presents the opportunity to ensure global food security while helping to...
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Judging | New Venture Competition
in terms of capital required to launch and operate. Funding sources are identified and a plan for securing initial investment is articulated. Performance Measurement The plan takes a practical approach to milestones and organizational...
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- Fast Answer
Intraday quotes
href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Databases/Institute-for-the-Study-of-Security-Markets-ISSM" target="_blank">Institute for the Study of Securities Markets - ISSM for historical (1987-1992) NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ tick-by-tick data...
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- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
in the prosperous country, stimulates demand for products and services, and creates as many jobs as it fills, thereby not increasing unemployment. In the US, as the argument goes, it could also help address the economic shortfall in Social View Details
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by James Heskett
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Though Watson had to personally secure a loan to reshape the company’s finances, he turned it around in a matter of years and officially incorporated it as International Business Machines in 1923. Over the next 30 years of Watson’s...
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Computers & Electronics
- 21 Feb 2024
Virtual Forté MBA Forum for Undergrads
Calling all undergrads! Whether you are a first year student or a senior, the Virtual Forté MBA Forum has opportunities for everyone to learn about the value of an MBA. Join this free online event to hear from admissions reps from top MBA programs and learn how to...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
Subramanian and Pelet, on the runway with Aero (Courtesy Uma Subramanian) Subramanian and Pelet, on the runway with Aero (Courtesy Uma Subramanian) When Uma Subramanian (MBA 2008) joined Aero Technologies as CEO in March 2019, the company was “just a kernel of an...
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April White;
aviation;
airlines;
entrepreneurship;
leadership;
innovation;
Air Transportation;
Transportation
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
lock, but the company soon expanded its focus to B2B sales in the health care sector. Its clients now include sites responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, which require both security and a reliable audit log. The...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
plastics problem. It is helping to shift the consumer mindset from single-use to reuse,” says Pak. Kevin O’Leary, one of the “sharks” on Shark Tank, would agree. Paiji Yoo and Naqvi appeared on the popular television show on September 29, 2019, and their winning pitch...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental department. At the end of his term, Coady was appointed to lead the U.S. delegation for the creation and implementation of the Global Environmental Facility, to finance projects in biodiversity, climate change, and food View Details
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April White
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
has made quick progress, securing one federal and two state grants of $13 million, in total. In February 2015, the coalition broke ground on a six-mile segment to connect the city of Napa to Yountville, and it is scheduled to have more...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
to the employer. Later governmental measures protected workers in the event of unemployment and provided for security in retirement. Today, the government protects citizens from an array of hazards ranging from defective products, to...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs from the late 1990s and winnowed the lot down to three: Marla Malcolm Beck, Chris Michel, and Marc Cenedella. From their stories, he derived key lessons learned, often the hard way, as they built successful businesses, created hundreds of jobs, and View Details