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- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
important directions for future research, such as investigating the causes and consequences of how organizations and industries are evaluated on warmth and competence. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting
growth stage (Series B+), early stage (pre-Seed - Series A), climate (Series B+, with a focus on energy and mobility), or media and journalism. Interns complete two projects over the summer, in addition to sourcing and View Details
- 2006
- Article
Capital Budgeting: The Role of Cost Allocations
By: Ian D. Gow and Stefan Reichelstein
A common issue for firms is how to allocate capital resources to various investment alternatives. An extensive and long-standing literature in finance has examined various aspects of capital budgeting, including capital constraints, the determination of discount rates,... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Resource Allocation; Performance Evaluation; Cost Management; Research; Investment; Cash Flow; Risk Management; Performance Capacity
Gow, Ian D., and Stefan Reichelstein. "Capital Budgeting: The Role of Cost Allocations." Operations Research Proceedings (2006): 115–122.
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
-0.27. We also present evidence that consumers increased usage ahead of these announced price changes. Finally, we project that the price elasticity converges to a value between -0.30 and -0.35 after ten years. Our findings highlight the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
pretty similar to what the company would normally fund,” Krieger observes. He and Nanda captured their findings in the working paper, “Are Transformational Ideas Harder to Fund? Resource Allocation to R&D Projects at a Global... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
regulations on buybacks as some propose, I’m in favor of boards being much more active in evaluating buybacks, limiting accelerated share buybacks, and changing the accounting treatment of buybacks so that managers are not tempted by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), evaluated her client’s philanthropy project and its mediocre performance. RPA was a segment of the Rockefeller Family Office’s Philanthropy Department, becoming an... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- Web
Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
evaluating them against research and key insights through structured tools. Highlights Project Week Assignment Show Hide Details Concepts Project Instructions Featured... View Details
- Web
Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
Delivering Feedback Show Hide Details Concepts Your Network Managing Up and Down Managing Your Direct Reports (Coaching) Adversity and Stress Rising to Leadership Responsibility Featured Exercises Video upload: Practice giving feedback and coaching, and apply... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dtq013?ijkey=WB7zzaO3bsqcw4t&keytype=ref Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies Author: Luis M. Viceira Publication: In Evaluating the Financial Performance of Pension Funds,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of Product Strategy for Authoria as he researches and... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
conservation problem as a behavior change problem, understand behavioral mechanisms and identify appropriate approaches for behavior change (awareness, incentives, nudges), and evaluate and adapt approaches based on new behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
has received substantial attention in the strategy literature, where a number of qualitative approaches to describe, represent, and evaluate business models have been proposed. We contend that while helpful to understand a firm's overall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
up a task force to determine the extent of the problem and evaluate proposed fixes, some of which Luca had recommended and described in a Harvard Business Review article coauthored with Ray Fisman. The company has since made a series of... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
for expansion and growth. Initiatives & Projects The Health Care Initiative and the Social Enterprise Initiative connect students, alumni, faculty, and practitioners to ideas, resources, and opportunities for collaboration that yield... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
prices associated (or contemporaneous) with JGTRRA. Consistent Constructs in Individuals' Risk Taking in Decisions from Experience Authors:Eyal Ert and Eldad Yechiam Publication:Acta Psychologica (forthcoming) Abstract The current research View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Past Issues - Alumni
generation. Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees How genealogy research grew from a hobbyist project into a multibillion-dollar industry That Was Then, This Is Now For more than 20 years, the HBS Portrait View Details