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  • 04 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Engaging Students More Deeply

Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

resulting contract disputes were not supposed to happen. The 1980s saw the growth of protections for foreign investors. Official insurance agencies, such as the U.S.'s OPIC, provided political risk coverage that would reimburse investors... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

in Winter 2019 I joined Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in Atlanta shortly after graduating from Emory with the goal of deepening my accounting expertise. At Deloitte, I designed and tested risk controls... View Details
  • Web

Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool, which helps design high-performance jobs... View Details
  • June 2011
  • Article

Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Djorjiji Petkoski
The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their constituencies' well-being. To do that effectively, you must understand the nuances of people's daily lives, say... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Human Needs; Income; Poverty; Profit; Relationships; Economics; Segmentation
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  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

not economical to maintain in a particular company. For example, computer security consulting requires a high level of expertise, which few firms can economically maintain in-house. By providing these kinds... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

    Elon Kohlberg

    Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

    Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; education industry; energy; pharmaceuticals; real estate
    • 16 Jan 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

    be that they should weigh carefully the costs of breaking trust and of risking reputation. The formal study of behavioral economics exactly relates psychological factors to View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • 07 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 7

    This note briefly reviews the financial crisis in central Europe in late 2008 and summarizes how four central European countries—Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia—have coped with the economic downturn. Purchase this... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 27 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

    Keywords: by Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio & Sergio G. Lazzarini; Banking; Financial Services
    • Web

    Faculty - Private Capital Project

    Faculty Faculty Co-Directors Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Chaired Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of View Details
    • 05 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

    investments. "Funds with anchors are, on average, $9 million larger than those without anchors at last close." The initial anchor investment can serve as a quality indicator to other investors, including those that are more risk... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • Web

    In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    PhD Investment Strategies By: Malcolm P. Baker & Samuel G. Hanson Former offerings Investment Strategies and Behavioral and Value Investing Investment Management By: Adi Sunderam & Luis M. Viceira HBS, MBA Managing the Financial Firm By: David S. Scharfstein HBS: MBA... View Details
    • 25 Feb 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: February 25

    causal evidence for the role of matchmaking in promoting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46356 August 2013 Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2003
    • Book

    The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World

    By: Bhaskar Chakravorti

    Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details

    Keywords: Game Theory; Network Effects; Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Economics
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    • 17 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 17

    Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure for a large sample of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 3

    instability, and a global economic slowdown? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710046-PDF-ENG The Precautionary Principle Michael W. Toffel and Nazli Z. Uludere AragonHarvard Business School Note 610-043 This note... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 18 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 18

    a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace