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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details
- February 1999 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Car Wash Partners, Inc.
By: Paul A. Gompers
Examines the investment decision of Cabot Brown and Bill Burgin, two venture capitalists, to finance Car Wash Partners (CWP). CWP intends to purchase automatic car washes around the country. Investment strategy and deal structuring are discussed. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry
Gompers, Paul A. "Car Wash Partners, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 299-034, February 1999. (Revised June 2010.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
the planet who are living in extreme poverty. You can’t have stability in the world with such widespread deprivation. Where do you get most of your news about the world? I read the Financial Times and scan the New York Times every day.... View Details
- Career Coach
Mo Fong
Mo Fong (HBS ‘02, Stanford ‘95 ChemE, ‘96 MA Education ) Mo is currently the Executive Director at Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Management and Engineering focusing on entrepreneurship research, programs and outreach. Prior to STVP, Mo spent 15... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
community service efforts. Last year, the club gave $25,000 in financial aid to MBA students, provided a full scholarship to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management executive program at HBS, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Henry M. Paulson Jr., MBA 1970
President on the White House Domestic Council. During his tenure as secretary, Paulson led the country through one of its most challenging periods of financial turbulence. A lifelong environmentalist who grew up in Illinois wanting to be... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement
- 13 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers
- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
The United States Treasury recently amended its rules to encourage workers with retirement plans to purchase life annuities within these plans. Life annuities generally make fixed monthly payments from the date of retirement until the death of the purchaser. For years,... View Details
- 03 Nov 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?
- 10 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations
- 22 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
Managers of public corporations sometimes need to be reminded that they work for shareholders. Without proper monitoring, managers may receive excess compensation or perks, or misuse free cash flow. Historically, poorly performing managers have had little to fear. If a... View Details
- 13 Jul 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Catastrophe Bonds
- 05 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Global Currency Hedging
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
Summing Up Based on some of the most thoughtful comments to any of these columns, one might conclude that acceptable earnings guidance by CEOs should take on new forms. Let's first consider the pros and cons, then some research, then some recommendations. Sandi Edgar,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- Cold Call Podcast