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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets
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  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

they balance what was potentially best for the Group, with what was best for SMT, and for the delicate relationships with their partners they had come to depend on? Keywords: Business Model ; Business Organization ; Decisions ; Business... View Details
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

a balance between preparing and staying spontaneous in the moment. “If you over-prepare, it can immobilize you and prevent you from bobbing and weaving,” Huang says. “You don’t want to be tethered to a script that feels forced. You want... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between decision rights and improvement rights (zones of slack), and for set periods of experimentation (zones of time). By balancing transparency and... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

that these are the most difficult times in memory for many, if not most people. Parents struggle to balance the demands of remote work and homeschooling. Employees who live alone strain to stay focused while isolated from loved ones and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Game On

the sport a handy balance of attractiveness for new entrants and stickiness for the long-timers. Seniors, in particular, couldn’t get enough of it. McCarthy and Gordon observed the mob scenes at public courts everywhere and decided to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

on a sustained and balanced growth trajectory? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-078 Ghurka Ghurka was a 38-year-old luxury leather goods brand that specialized in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era. There remained many restrictions on the flow of capital, trade,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • Web

    Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

    Accounting Professor V.G. Narayanan In this accounting fundamentals course, discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements, such as balance sheets and income statements. 8 weeks, 6–8 hrs/week Enroll by February 20 $1,850... View Details
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    Skydeck - Alumni

    his experience at MLB can teach any business leader. (Recorded live at Spring Reunions.) Balancing Acts Recipients of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award offer their take on the tricky topic of managing personal and professional... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

    By: Kristin Sippl
    While much is known about voluntary sustainability standards' contributions to certain issues in certain sectors, less is known about their contributions to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Gold; Certification; Eco-labeling; International Law; Extractive Industries; Fair Trade; United Nations; Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Adoption; Governance; Global Range; Luxury; Mining Industry
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    • March 2006
    • Module Note

    Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World

    By: Alan D. MacCormack
    Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Perspective; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Managerial Roles; Product Design; Business Startups; Organizational Design
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      Aurora Turek

      Aurora Turek is a PhD candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the future of work. In particular, she studies how flexible work practices - like remote and hybrid work - emerge and the implications of these... View Details
      • 01 Jan 2007
      • News

      Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

      utilities, financial services, telecommunications, electronics manufacturing, business process outsourcing, and IT. "Our goal is to strike a balance that allows us to find new avenues for growth locally, remain relevant to changing... View Details
      • 15 Feb 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 15

        PublicationsThe Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, eds. Publication:Research and University of Chicago Press, 2010 Abstract Publisher's Book Abstract:... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 Feb 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Naivete and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts

      Keywords: by Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu & Max H. Bazerman
      • Spring 2024
      • Article

      The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory Implications

      By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Victoria Ivashina, Laura Nicolae, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Daniel K. Tarullo
      As revealed by the failures of three regional banks in the spring of 2023, bank runs are not a thing of the past. To inform the ongoing discussion of the appropriate regulatory response, we examine trends in the banking industry over the last twenty-five years. On the... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Condition; Banking Industry
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      • April 2017
      • Case

      Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (A)

      By: Tsedal Neeley and Esel Çekin
      Galya Frayman Molinas, President of Coca-Cola's Turkish business and a 20-year company veteran, is unexpectedly asked to take the helm of a newly expanded territory with operations across eight additional countries in Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,... View Details
      Keywords: Functions; Structure; Centralization; Decentralization; Diversity; Country Of Origin Effects; Global Contextual Intelligence; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Experience and Expertise; Situation or Environment; Central Asia; Turkey
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