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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Social Behavior By: Crockett, Molly J., and Amy Cuddy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49863 October 2015 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Men as Cultural Ideals: Cultural View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated...
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time
however, motorized trucks and passenger cars found a market among small businessmen who recognized their value for deliveries and short-distance transport of heavy goods, but could not put up the entire purchase price at once. The auto...
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) - MBA
1. Academic Information & Policies 1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) Welcome to HBS Being a Student at HBS 1. Academic Information & Policies 1.1 HBS Community Values 1.2 MBA Honor Code 1.3 Academic Calendar 1.4 Academic Program...
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- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
other side. Sometimes negotiators stretch the truth unintentionally, falling prey to what Bazerman and his colleagues call “bounded ethicality” by engaging in unethical behavior that contradicts their values without knowing it. Why does...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
through a process of valuation. Is the proposed investment justified? How much should you pay? But after an acquisition, it’s fairly common for the stock of the acquirer to fall, indicating that it likely overpaid and transferred value...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
more sustainable, competitive, international, and profitable entities. ESG has been a core part of FSN Capital's DNA and value creation approach since the inception of the firm in 1999 and is deeply...
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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54150 Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment By: Daines, Robert, Shelley Xin Li, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study the effect of staggered boards (SBs) on managers'...
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Dina Gerdeman
- September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
Icahn Enterprises, a publicly traded limited partnership founded and operated by famed activist investor Carl Icahn, had earned above market returns for over a decade. Between 2018 and early 2023, it had a compound annual return of 31%. Icahn invested in undervalued...
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Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and James Weber. "Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment." Harvard Business School Case 124-013, September 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
Andrews, HBS Career & Professional Development, 617.495.6086, phandrews@hbs.edu . See the FAQs section below for common questions about eligibility. GO Fellowship applicants and recipients agree to abide by the HBS Community Values and...
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- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
finding his way back to Wall Street, Schwartz returned to his native Canada, and in 1984 founded Onex Corporation, a private equity firm built on the values that changed the trajectory of his life so many...
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first job;
leadership;
life experience;
career lessons;
Finance;
Oil and Gas Extraction;
Mining;
Retail Trade
- July – August 2011
- Article
What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?
A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors...
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Competition;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Industry Growth;
Judgments;
Performance;
Valuation;
Price;
Quality;
Innovation and Invention;
Organizational Culture;
Competency and Skills;
Surveys
Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim. "What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?" Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 4 (July–August 2011).
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
value of education, changing the world through entrepreneurship, and finding meaning by helping others. Dahod’s first taste of entrepreneurship came as a teenager, when he helped his physician father produce and distribute medication that...
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Susan Young
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
Sloan, who not only were interested in leadership by virtue of having practiced it, but also had the ability to step back from everyday responsibilities of the firm and to think about leadership conceptually and developmentally. Q: Pop...
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Projects - Business History
of firms and brands. Emphasizing ways that businesses can create value for their societies, the project provides a unique resource for research and teaching. From the beginning it was envisioned as a public...
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- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49388 Enabling Versus Controlling By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—In an increasing number of industries, firms choose how much control to give professionals over the provision...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
and child” so that they can enjoy “a healthy, happy family.” In building its culture, the firm focuses squarely on recognizing and affirming employees’ individuality. One of Ovia’s core values is “Be...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices in Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers...
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Sean Silverthorne