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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
from a team in France that wanted to get an American player. This was a novel idea. Make a long story short, they gave me a player. I dealt with the team. It was a very small money deal. OK. So we sent her over. A few weeks later, I guess...
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- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
numbers will work out. The second is to work a deal with employees for a lump-sum payment covering the value of their pension, walking away without further obligations. That number can be large, however, and few companies can afford to pay out all that View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
about hedge fund managers and private equity managers raking in billions while decimating companies and destabilizing markets more than we worry about whether the CEO of Ford took home a few paltry millions while actually running a...
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by Jim Heskett
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the...
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by Martha Lagace
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Barron's described Doriot as a "gentle, soft-spoken man [who] seems ill-suited to the title "General" except that he goes about investing American Research money with a sort of idealistic fervor, as though directing a crusade." 51 Doriot...
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- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
advantage of a natural experiment involving two offsetting court rulings, separated by several weeks, that affected the antitakeover force of staggered boards for a subset of Delaware firms. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
with the herd and went into banking." But after two years working 100-hour weeks as an investment analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation (DLJ) in Los Angeles, he decided that "moving money around is not what life...
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Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together...
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Besharov, Marya L., Wendy K. Smith, and Michael Tushman Abstract— It’s notoriously difficult for a business to manage two separate-but-equal goals—making money and creating social value at the same time, for example, or managing an...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
another company for an amount of money that exceeds the fair market value. Specifically, the FASB was trying to determine whether goodwill should be amortized. To that end, FASB leaders met with leaders from...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
"strategic"-with marketing people developing a marketing-centric strategy and favoring the marketing side of business-and derives two rational mechanisms for this outcome, one confidence-based and...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
badly. Other apparent areas of interest in the last 12 months included corporate social responsibility, marketing techniques, and, of course, the ubiquitous Lady Gaga. Here are the Top 10 most-read articles and 10 most-read working papers...
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by Staff
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war,"...
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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
than a billion dollars. And all this money helped small businesses that the market wasn't reaching access the capital that they needed to grow. A second model is the small business investment partnership or...
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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
firms-partly thanks to changes in labor regulations that made labor markets more flexible. Reforms were also effective at cutting red tape that prevented entrepreneurs from starting businesses. The number of days to start a business...
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by George Serafeim
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
company to be more competitive because it is easier to source skilled people, access suppliers efficiently, and operate productively. In money management, for example, every road show comes to Boston because there is a cluster of major...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and...
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by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler