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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
increases sharply during peaks of private equity cycles. Deals done by bank-affiliated groups are financed at significantly better terms than other deals when the parent bank is part of the lending...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
we’re going to be avoiding the difficult conversations, that we’re going to be just looking at the rosy, that we’re going to be not going and dealing with the pitfalls until it’s too late, those are a lot of the things that are the...
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
thoroughly nasty industry. The saddest thing about it is that it will not put an end to uninvited outbound telemarketing. You'll still get calls from firms you deal with, including those you have no choice but to View Details
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Casey Gerald
Casey Gerald prefers not to make a big deal of his football-playing days as a cornerback. “We won a championship, we lost a championship — and I broke a few bones,” he says. But football became a bridge to Yale, an unexpected opportunity...
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Kristen Jones
an example, Kristen cites a case about an entrepreneur weighing the pros and cons of accepting a venture-capital partner. “Most of the class looked at in terms of valuation, of what the deal would mean from an equity perspective. But I...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
favorite professors that deals with current challenges facing managers and leaders. Other alumni in your area get the same email, plus an invitation to meet at a local café for a small-group case discussion. That process repeats a few...
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- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
life. “The fellowship means that a burden has been lifted. I am free to take risks at HBS and stretch myself,” says Strobel, who hopes to pursue a career in consulting after graduation. “I want to make an impact by helping businesses deal...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
uncertainty is due to the megamergers of the past fifteen years when, Frank Biondi noted, all the major networks and film studios were sold. As Harold Vogel put it: "There are hardly any more multimillion-dollar deals to be made - the big...
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Paula Maute
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
Cockerham agrees. "All of us have had to deal with restructuring, pay-for-performance, and personnel issues in a downsized or downsizing environment," she says. "We didn't need to have any background on these issues explained to us." With...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
online consumers about a better deal at another Web site. Originally designed to automatically complete online point-of-sale forms with a single click, the electronic wallet is paving the way for a richer, more personalized online...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
counter-productive, negative effects." Although the brain's chemistry is beyond our control, Jensen suggests that being aware of the pattern gives us an advantage in dealing with it. "Neurological 'muscles' can be strengthened just like...
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Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
fail to close deals when they are clear and passionate about their objective.” I’ve exhausted my personal network, and the alumni database isn’t working for me. When using the alumni database, approach people you would describe as peers....
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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where informational problems...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
promising and profitable. This should benefit small businesses who, despite having to deal with higher interest rates in some cases, could find more transparency in product and pricing options, lower search costs, and better speed and...
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- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
or as trained brand ambassadors. By empowering employees to communicate in that way, leaders relinquish much of the control that they formerly exerted over organizational messaging. But they gain a great deal in return. Through...
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Re: Boris Groysberg
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
integration and degree of structural differentiation together affect a firm's ability to explore and exploit. We suggest that the senior team's ability to attend to and deal with contradictory internal architectures is a crucial...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
deal with such cultural differences is critical for business success in China. Secondly, my research suggests that, in a Chinese business environment, the more well-connected a person is in a manager's professional network is, the more...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
debates whether large global firms are becoming "stateless" and whether this is a historically new phenomenon. It shows that a great deal of international business in the nineteenth century was not easily fitted into national...
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Martha Lagace