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- 11 May 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?
- 03 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
In the fall of, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule meant to combat the problem of selective disclosure among public companies and their favorite investors. Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) mandated that any time a publicly traded company...
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- 29 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
If a successful analyst is hired by another organization, chances are both his work performance and the market value of his new company will not reap the expected benefits; they might even lose altitude. So discovered HBS professor Boris Groysberg and colleagues Ashish...
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- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
Date: January 9-10, 2008 Faculty Chairs: Josh Lerner, William Sahlman Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Venture Capital What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The VC Conference is one in a series of 14 alumni and practitioner forums Harvard Business School is...
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Jennifer Hurford
"I'm trying to find ways to make a living and make an impact," Jennifer Hurford says of her pursuit of the joint MBA/MPP from HBS and The Kennedy School. "Why do they have to be mutually exclusive? Why should having a life that's meaningful mean...
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Financial Services
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Dateline Belgrade
Slobodan Milosevic's decision to withdraw Serb forces from Kosovo last spring was helped along by a surprising secret envoy: Peter Castenfelt (MBA '72), chairman of Archipelago Enterprises, a London-based financial firm. Reporting that...
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- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they...
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by Mihir Desai
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
ease that burden, HBS made an investment in Thompson-Woode. Alongside traditional financial aid, which included fellowships and loans, Thompson-Woode was awarded the Forward Fellowship, a $30,000, two-year grant designed to assist...
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April White
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Lindsay Steinmetz
better public education, rather than a new technology, financial rewards or product. The best part of that realization though is that I have classmates choosing to be leaders in the other sectors to follow their genuine interests as well,...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
a number of categories that will prove important when considering the CEO’s role: Direction: A core function of leadership is setting the strategy for the organization, and setting specific financial goals that the organization will seek...
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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
externally hired CEOs increase the likelihood of providing guidance. Complicated Firms Authors:Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managed and that senior managers' key responsibilities should center around its acquisition, allocation, and effective use. For the vast majority of companies, that assumption simply is no longer true. Without denying the need for prudent use of View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Four Alumni on '40 Under 40' List
Four HBS alumni have landed on this year’s Boston Business Journal “40 Under 40” list, which covers a wide range of industries, government functions, and nonprofit organizations. The list of recent HBS graduates includes: Tiffany Freitas (MBA 2005), chief View Details