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04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

Part of it is this unconscious bias. But we just need more women to feel comfortable writing checks.” Dan Morrell: Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) has spent much of her career as an entrepreneur and tech executive and was well aware of the... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

there is nothing new about the globalization of firms. Since the emergence of the first global economy in the nineteenth century and the growth of the first manufacturing multinationals, such as Saint-Gobain, Siemens, and Singer Sewing Machines, business historians... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

Zou Abstract—There is relatively little prior evidence on the potential impact of rank and file employees on financial reporting choices outside union negotiations. We contribute to the literature by providing new evidence that firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

pressure to perform. Second, internal controls within their companies are not that strong. And finally, their companies allow them to rationalize their behavior." Even after the scandal broke, the mid-level Siemens executive who oversaw... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

hardship for entrepreneurial high-tech firms that do not have the cash to attract and retain the engineers and executives who translate entrepreneurial ideas into profitable, long-term growth. This argument... View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-064.pdf Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms By: Farre-Mensa, Joan Abstract—I document that public U.S. firms hold twice as much cash... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting

allowing the opinions and knowledge of others to fill my own experience gaps while being able to persuasively explain my own choices. HBS also provided the resources to help me in my job search and application process, and the tools to... View Details

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

is that people who should be allies are at cross-purposes with each other." The US Competitiveness Project put forth this definition: "The United States is a competitive nation to the extent that firms operating in the U.S. can... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

29 Aug 2016
Blog Post

First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business

year students with the required content and learning to form a firm foundation for a bright future in business. Breadth and Depth The RC is comprised of 12 courses. I personally have grouped these 12 courses in 3 buckets- how to finance a... View Details

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Ruzwana Bashir

Economics at Oxford and became the first British Asian woman to become president of the Oxford Union, the famed debate society that spawned a long line of notable British political figures. “At Oxford, I didn’t have a firm idea on... View Details

13 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

companies don’t post their roles and instead will wait for students to find the posting on their websites. However, posting the position at HBS targets HBS students specifically and reaches an audience of students who have set specific View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other, but family... View Details

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

in a Systems Business J. Bruce HarreldHarvard Business School Case 810-071 This short case describes the tensions that often arise between finance executives attempting to curtail unproductive activities and strategy View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

Death Star,’” recalls Crespin, the founder of CollaborateUp, a consulting firm that specializes in tackling big societal problems and bridging difficult, cross-sector relationships. He adds, “The environmental people had their arms... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

regulated industry, so anyone who's interested in business and government would be a player. It has a social and ethical component to it. So this is fertile ground to study a lot of other phenomena." The School has assembled a talented set of practitioners and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

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Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

age: dot-coms, dot-com enablers, and wanna-dots. That's kind of a joke, because many of the pure dot-coms are dead. The dot-com enablers, which are the technology and service firms themselves, are the biggest e-commerce companies in the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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