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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck Geeks & Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas Value Sweep: Mapping...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
right to buy into privately held firms was limited to high-net-worth individuals or other businesses. Federal regulators have now opened up a world between the two categories, creating a new asset class in which “non-accredited investors”...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
addition to writing and teaching about these larger issues, the School has the responsibility to focus society’s attention on them. The School will go from the periphery to the center of the University’s campus. Is that going to change...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East
of Taiwan's Acer Group and a pioneer Asian brand-builder, to raise his hand. (Throughout the conference, Shih was a case study of the dynamic CEO: when he wasn't in his seat listening attentively or in front of the audience imparting...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
limited partners begging to get in,” notes Wilcox. “Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals, and LPs are lining up to invest money in them. But the mediocre and poorer funds are having trouble raising...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
profit-making; unlike financial performance, there is no common currency of measurement and aggregation," Ebrahim explains. "The value created by social-sector organizations accrues to society rather than to a set of owners or shareholders, which raises issues of...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Dare to be Different
fact that so many business books seem to be “processed” and “packaged” in the same way. But ultimately, I decided that I was being too limited in my thinking, and that I should just try to write a book in a voice that my students would...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
Great Recession. Certainly, there are some similarities: there are some elements of a standard demand-side crisis, and we need to be attentive to those. But the problem we are facing today goes far beyond a breakdown in demand, so it is...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Rethinking the MBA
value-added by the MBA degree. Those questions, and the desire for greater attention to organizational realities, global perspectives, and leadership skills, have been getting more vigorous and louder. Second, this is very much a time for...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
(video) When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the need to identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risks at the top of its list of critical problems in need of legislative repair, along with limiting leverage and reforming the credit rating system (see Setting...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in conservatorship in September 2008. With their...
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- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
evolution. So what makes carbon capture special? Why is it commanding so much attention and capital? JM: It really is a math problem. DM: And the big number in climate change calculations is 1.5 degrees Celsius or about 2.7 degrees...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game
bars handing out student or alumni e-mail addresses to commercial enterprises.) “My feeling is that rankings do serve a purpose by aggregating information for people who are trying to make a difficult decision,” says Kenny, who came to HBS in 2008. But there’s a View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
appearing in major news magazines. Then came a state visit from U.S. President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) in March, the same month HBS inaugurated its global research center in Mumbai (see sidebar, page 29). “Everything you hear about India is true; in one sense, the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
the new hires in US venture capital firms in the first quarter of 2019 were women. The disparate impacts of the pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd have focused national attention on the need for increased...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
around the world. Of those, 36 were in human testing and two, touted by China and Russia, had been approved for limited use, though experts cautioned that both vaccines needed further testing. Most attention...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
the framework for the firm's culture. "Similarly," he continues, "I decided to lay Greylock's financial foundation by bringing together a group of limited partners who had some relationship with me and often with each other, rather than...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton
So it’s not clear that consolidation necessarily limits consumer choice. But if news or opinion is sold like supermarket cereal, there’s only room on the shelves for what most pleases most people. Ideally, the public interest would...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
The four professional leagues have varying systems involving collective bargaining agreements, free agency rules, and financial penalties that, to different degrees, set, or act as a "drag" on, upper-level payroll limits and player...
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Garry Emmons