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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
extraordinary opportunity to network with other HBS graduates and to enhance your professional interests under the guidance of some very skillful HBS faculty members. Sign up now! In the meantime, don't... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
responses did not correlate well with country of origin. One interesting example concerned fears about the two-tiered economy created by job exportation. Before concluding, "These trends cannot be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
from someone who may not have your best interests at heart. Giving and receiving effective feedback is essential to constructive interactions and a necessity for leaders who want to empower other leaders to sustain high levels View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
administrators about important activities and initiatives currently under way. We also spent a significant portion of each meeting in working committees devoted to specific areas of View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
so as I said, this has been around since the dawn of time, but it has been supercharged by technology. And so I actually had a guy on the show who is a very interesting character. His name is Giancarlo... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
women attribute the success of the Women’s Initiative in part to its close relationship with the HBSA/NC. “We work hand in hand with the club to put on events to address the interests View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
classroom spaces for those interested in managing people, that the market may help redress problems described above? What do you think? Original Article My areas of interest... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- October 2021
- Article
Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach
By: Nicolas Padilla and Eva Ascarza
The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can... View Details
Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Programs; Consumer Behavior; Analysis
Padilla, Nicolas, and Eva Ascarza. "Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 58, no. 5 (October 2021): 981–1006.
- October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Dulcie Madden (A)—Growth or Exit?
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Christopher Payton and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Family; Family Conflicts; Founders' Agreements; Growth And Development; Hardware; VC; Scaling; Start-up; Female Ceo; Risk Assessment; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Equity; Cash Flow; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Information Technology; Valuation; Family and Family Relationships; Information Infrastructure; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, Christopher Payton, and Shweta Bagai. "Dulcie Madden (A)—Growth or Exit?" Harvard Business School Case 820-052, October 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Turkcell
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Charles C.Y. Wang and Esel Cekin
This case centers around the shareholder dispute between three major shareholders of Turkcell, and how its management vied against increasing regulatory intervention and market competition in the absence of a fully-functioning board. The battle for control of the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Performance; Regulatory Environment; Telecommunications; Marketing; Value Added; Pricing; Shareholder; Boards Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Shareholder Relations; Telecommunications Industry; Turkey
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Charles C.Y. Wang, and Esel Cekin. "Turkcell." Harvard Business School Case 715-009, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
It is often not as granular as researchers would like; for example, it may provide data by county, rather than by city or at the business level, and it may not include all the variables researchers are interested in, such as quality and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
ideas. For the projects I worked, I had to make lots of Excel models to clearly distill complex information. I applied the same principals I used as a programmer to make the models clean and succinct so that the information would raise... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad
Chad Losee Chad Losee Harvard Business School has announced that it has chosen Chad Losee (MBA 2013) to be its next managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. Losee will succeed Dee Leopold (MBA 1980), who has headed the... View Details
- January 2019
- Article
Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership
By: Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
The economics of partnerships have been of enduring interest to economists, but many issues regarding intergenerational conflicts and their impact on the continuity of these organizations remain unclear. We examine 717 private equity partnerships and show that (a) the... View Details
Keywords: Partnerships; Leveraged Buyout; Partners and Partnerships; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Leveraged Buyouts
Ivashina, Victoria, and Josh Lerner. "Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership." Journal of Financial Economics 131, no. 1 (January 2019): 61–87.
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBSAA Board of Directors has been hard at work this year, and I am delighted to report progress on a number of initiatives that will benefit alumni. After welcoming twelve new members and inaugurating... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
Our most popular stories are those that help readers become better managers and outstanding leaders. Here are our most-read stories and faculty research papers in 2019. Tell us in the comment section below what you thought were the most View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- November 2008
- Journal Article
Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers' Ten Uncommon Values® Recommendations
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Yang Gui
Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine the performance of this committee's recommendations and find that on average its selections generated abnormal returns of 2.7%... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Stocks; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams; Research; Value Creation
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui. "Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers' Ten Uncommon Values® Recommendations." Journal of Financial Transformation 24 (November 2008): 123–130.
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of Opus Dei. After several years... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
business & environment opportunities and risks. BEI helps to connect current MBAs with these alumni for learning and careers. We recently spoke with one such alum about his career journey. Martin Aares (MBA 2001) had always known his childhood View Details