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- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
know, because you can't actually go and give of yourself until you address some of your own needs. You know, we actually had a gentleman who was homeless, had been chronically homeless, and had lived under a viaduct for 10 years. He was finally in some transition...
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- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
distinctions between "reorganization" and "liquidation." We examine the drivers of M&A activity, based on factors specific to Chapter 11 as well as more general factors that drive M&A waves for non-distressed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
guarantees, to define and limit them. That’s the purpose of this whole proposal, not to put systemic firms at a competitive disadvantage but rather to prevent them from imposing undue costs on the rest of the financial system.” Devil’s in the Details The View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
difficult to compute. Yet these customers generate value to the firm because their presence attracts fee-paying sellers. In this paper we consider the value of a customer in these types of networked setting. We compute the value of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
market, the by-product market. Since waste is now a useful raw material, the firm may increase profit by generating more "waste." By converting waste into by-product, the firm not only reduces waste disposal cost and increases...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
resources are stretched very thin, we've had to become very entrepreneurial," Britt explains. "To generate income we license toy companies, retailers, and park operators to use our Sesame Street characters, and we publish are own...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
school districts fail to improve, and what can we do about it?” Coyne describes the system that has generated the challenges we face today and illustrates them with a number of case studies, based on his unique perspective as an...
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- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
connections (measured as campaign donations to politicians who won an election). Yet, we do not find evidence that BNDES is systematically bailing out firms. In general, BNDES appears to be generally selecting firms with capacity to repay...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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Organizations & Markets James Sebenius Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent General Management Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 The Anatomy of Fraud...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
that might surprise HBS alumni about you? I spend some of my time on weekends doing simple chores. It’s amazing how much thinking you can get done while power-washing a fence. — SY Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) IMMELT When he succeeded Jack Welch as chairman and CEO of View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
decisions and ultimately impact observers' willingness to be influenced by them. Three studies suggest that observing others make more (versus less) thoughtful decisions generates more positive reactions when a choice is difficult but...
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Anna Secino
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
bankruptcy. But when the city emerged from bankruptcy 17 months later, investors took another look. “Now the uncertainty has been removed.” Add to that the business-minded political changes: Democratic mayor Mike Duggan came to city hall in 2014 after eight years as...
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- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in real time, even as other communications were disrupted. Just as important, Twitter became an invaluable tool for people to check on loved ones and seek evacuation and medical assistance. "That was the moment I decided to work at...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
spoke about the importance of getting back on track. Three weeks after the attacks, General Motors president and CEO G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. (MBA '77), told the Wall Street Journal, "The best way we can respond to acts of terrorism on our...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
scores of patients and experts across a variety of fields, combining patient stories with medical insights and advice from those who have been there, and structured around the typical phases of the process, this book is an accessible...
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- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Abstract—Endoscopic/Colonoscopic procedures are done either with gastroenterologist-administered conscious sedation or with anesthesia-administered sedation with propofol. Anesthesia-administered sedation has medical and patient benefits...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993...
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