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- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
“There are many more private equity firms than in the past, so it’s becoming difficult for them to generate returns and add value,” says Brian Baik, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School.... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. The MMRF built the first multi-center myeloma tissue bank, became the first to sequence the myeloma genome, and launched the MMRF CoMMpass Study to View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
and engineers who are developing AI don’t necessarily speak the language of business,” he explains. “HBS is training the next generation of managers to be fluent in both business and data science, and to act... View Details
- Fast Answer
REITs (real estate investment trusts)
Where do I find information on real estate investment trusts (REITs)? General Background: National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts: Produces the global and domestic indices for... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) Natalia Rigol Benjamin N. Roth Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom Nicholas Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Data for Impact: Impact... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
investment-banking revenues. To assess the generality of our findings, we test the same relations using compensation data from a second high-status bank and obtain similar results. The Best of Both Worlds:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related negatively to announcement... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. Millennium Pharmaceuticals: Alan Crane (photo: Shelly R. Harrison) As the ability to analyze a patient's genetic material is developed, however, many believe... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
really taking advantage of the opportunities for visibility that hackathons have to offer. To test the evangelizing effectiveness of hackathons, the researchers conducted a large‐scale quantitative study of 1,302 developers and 167 hackathons. They started by taking... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Career Advancement | Research Associates
opportunity for qualified candidates to expand their research resume before pursuing doctoral studies. Although these positions are not affiliated with the school’s doctoral program, they offer a wide variety of faculty-driven research challenges—from the collection... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed, over the last 25 years, the accounting rate of return on inbound FDI to the United States has averaged... View Details
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Special purpose acquisition companies
Business Review article: SPACs: what you need to know. Additionally, LSEG Workspace, Pitchbook, Bloomberg, and and Capital IQ provide data on SPACs: In LSEG... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
KarimLakhani Digital Task Force Chair Professor Karim Lakhani and a task force of 36 faculty and staff from across HBS, charged with envisioning a new digital future for the School, have mapped a path for digital transformation. The direction they have set is based on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics wrong. Mining data from employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
each warrants. A bank, for instance, might assign the greatest amount of protection to the database that stores its customers' financial information. For a pharmaceutical company, it might be the research servers that hold data on... View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
Finalists Business Track, 2024 Aria Reese Donohue (MBA 2024) Aria is a B2B SaaS platform that transforms shared spaces into hyper-personalized environments. BEAM Nathan Dass (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MBA 2025) We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite... View Details