Systematic Risk - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

made serious efforts to negotiate a handover. That said, it took Jimmy Carter's willingness to cut endless deals and risk political suicide to get the Panama Canal treaties through the Senate. The reason was that a large swath of American... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

the risks of failure. Adding to this concern is that even as the number of mega audit firms has contracted from eight in the 1980s to four today, their combined market share remains formidable, especially in the United States. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

behavioral ethics as the study of systematic and predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the broader society. By focusing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 May 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

encouraged risk taking, and empowered me to use passion as my compass. Entrepreneurship is one of the most successful ways to not only build wealth for your community, but also to close the many gaps that exist due to years of View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

concept, there are many challenges and risks in execution for the service organization, government and investors. The VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds (819021) by Vikram Gandhi , Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme and Nathaniel... View Details

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-071.pdf Short-Termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk Authors:Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts, we measure the time horizon that senior... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the 2024 Rising Scholar Award from The Review of Financial Studies for "Regulatory Limits to Risk Management" (June 2023). 2023 Mark L. Egan : Winner of the 2023 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

successful. They should pursue situations in which their strengths are really needed, important weaknesses are not a serious drawback, and their core values are consistent with those of the organization; in other words, the stretch should not be too big or the View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

opposition, and encouraged a more systematic approach to cash management, acquisitions, and research strategy. Woodroofe had a remarkable perception, decades before it became the subject of numerous management books, that the basis of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

valuations, and fundamentals of value and growth stocks. Participants will leave this session with a better understanding of the risks and rewards of systematic value investing. Turning the Great Resignation... View Details

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

Tactics, deal design, and set-up are three crucial components of the most effective negotiations. Yet many negotiators focus only on the tactical part, running the risk of undermining their own best interests. How can you negotiate more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Research

The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

my course is about risk mitigation. I hope they will be able to answer the following question after a term in my course: How does one use all the tools learned at HBS to successfully structure deals and companies around the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

startling how liberating it is to talk about what is actually going on and we can only do that when we risk discussing the undiscussable with grace and care," says Schulman. Students were taught to learn their subject matter so... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

survive to this day—in schools of law, medicine, and divinity, respectively—in the modem American university. The study of law in America today remains rooted in the centuries-old traditions of Roman and Anglo-American law, as View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

the analytics of identifying relations between industries that make successful diversification seem more likely (Hausmann/Klinger, 2006; Delgado/Porter/Stern, 2009; Neffke et al., 2009). There is less systematic progress on identifying... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

trust through warmth and understanding. Most leaders today approach their jobs by emphasizing competence, strength, and credentials. But without first building a foundation of trust, they run the risk of eliciting fear, resentment, or... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

sitting on a rare opportunity, and they must be systematic in how they take advantage of it if they want to make positive changes," says George, a Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic,... View Details