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  • 04 Nov 2015
  • News

Q. & A. Why Are More Companies Passing on Going Public?

  • 16 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

On Earth Day 2021, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and the AMP199 Energy Circle co-hosted a conversation between Joan MacNaughton, Chair of the Climate Group and of the Advisory Board of the New Energy Coalition of Europe, and... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 28 May 2013
  • News

10 Questions to Ask When Determining Your Salary

  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

SUMMING UP Is Management the Missing Ingredient in Melding Organization Culture and Remote Work? Those who have experienced remote work are largely vocal supporters of the notion. Its success is dependent, on the one hand, on an effective culture fostered View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

pursued. It’s really the ethos that I’ve carried with me from when I was 13 to right now.” “Being neurodivergent and having learning differences, creative outlets like drawing were always a way for me to express myself when finding the words was more difficult.” Janice... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • November 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao and Elizabeth Raabe
In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an internal report on government and legal events relevant to the tire industry. Two items caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Lawsuits and Litigation; Auto Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

attributes such shortcomings to a prevailing "sense of entitlement" that's fostered in part by the absence of competitors. "You could make a good case that the very promise of job security is the first step in destroying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Song-Hee Kim, Seoul National University

  • January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
  • Case

Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

By: Robert G. Eccles
Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States
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  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Publishing Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta 09 Sep 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition View Details
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with uncooperative customers. Companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta View All Related Resources “The worst mistake—and the most common one—is not having a strategy at all. Most executives think... View Details
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Private firms’ ability to communicate confidentially with selected investors implies that valuation disagreements between firms and investors are larger at public firms than at private ones. Consistent with the notion that misvaluation concerns lead public firms to... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Equity; Private Companies; Corporate Cash; Precautionary Motives; Share Issuance; IPOs; Selective Disclosure; Private Ownership; Cash; Market Timing; Corporate Finance; Public Ownership; Corporate Disclosure; United States
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  • September 2014
  • Teaching Note

Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) is a financial technology start-up that has developed a new tool that uses psychometric tests to aid banks in developing markets with credit scoring of business loan applicants. EFL's ultimate goal is to solve the financing gap... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
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  • Web

Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

managing partner. Previously, he served as the president and CEO of Lincoln Snacks Company. Henry Charles Hawley (MBA 1925, DCS 1930) Fellowship The Henry Charles Hawley Fellowship was established by Joan... View Details