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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Princeton University Press, forthcoming Abstract In response to the financial crisis, governments are being far more aggressive in...
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Martha Lagace
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change....
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- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
to materialize. In 2014, Amazon had recorded a net loss of $241 million on revenues of $89 billion, in stark contrast to China’s leading Internet player Alibaba, which reported $3.9 billion of net income on...
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Sean Silverthorne
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California - Global
being influencers for established brands to drawing on their influence to create brands themselves. The authors examine what it takes to make celebrity brands work. March 2024 (Revised April 2024) Case Angel City Football Club: Scoring a...
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- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
extensively in the literature. This paper introduces the store liquidation problem to the literature and presents a technique for optimizing key decision variables, such as markdown, inventory, and store closing decisions during liquidations. We show that our approach...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Alumni - Global
Kelley 23 Jan 2024 HBS Alumni News A Wide Net Former tennis star and investor Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) sees scoring opportunities in global markets Re: Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005); By: April White 29 Nov 2023...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
with reusable grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of initiatives to reduce the use of plastic bags. However, little is known...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
Autonomy in and of itself is a reward.” Unlock TikTok Imagine generating $1.7 billion in sales in a 12-hour live stream. That record-setting feat, achieved on the Chinese platform Taobao, belongs to Austin Jiaqi Li, an online influencer with an estimated View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
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Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
the successful management of all financial aspects of a business venture. Sales. Measures skills and behaviors needed to build an effective sales organization and sales channel that can successfully acquire, retain, and serve customers, while View Details
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
the financial state and strategy of a business 8.5 hrs Module 7 Accounting for the Future Use financial forecasting to predict future revenue, expenses, and cash flow and understand key concepts and metrics in valuation, including time value of money, terminal value,...
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
promoting dishonesty are discussed. Article The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible...
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- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas those in high-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to borrow: 10% lower local tax...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure...
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- 21 Aug 2013
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What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
backfire. Sales last year fell 25 percent, resulting in a net loss of $985 million, and the blood-letting continued in quarterly results released this week. In a recent interview, Harvard Business School marketing expert Rajiv Lal, the...
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- 16 Apr 2001
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Breaking the Code of Change
Leadership Top-down Participative Focus Structure and systems Culture Planning Programmatic Emergent Motivation Incentives lead Incentives lag Consultants Large/ knowledge-driven Small/ process-driven That is, each of them does promote...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
Frank V. Cespedes, and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 709-441 In 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music industry and the increasing...
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Martha Lagace
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and financing, and budget/monitor...
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- 25 Jul 2013
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Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
people who should not be admitted, and rejecting people who should not be rejected.” Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals paints a picture of businesses repeatedly promoting or hiring...
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- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows,...
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Sean Silverthorne