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Past Issues - Alumni
is racing tech’s biggest names to make a long-promised future a reality. Complete Table of Contents March 2024 The War Within How three HBS alumni are helping Ukrainians process their trauma—and prepare for a rebuild Game On As investors... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
expectations into a standard setting of price formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. They study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with learning from prices and speculation (buying... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
IRS argues that the difference in stock price is actually income to the entrepreneur. # 9: Issuing founder shares without vesting. Simply put, vesting protects the members of the founding team who take the venture forward. If people... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement
Alumni tag Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS As investors and advocates in women’s health, [1] we view the recent SCOTUS decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
love the product? Or investors who believed in the founder and her dream? Many entrepreneurs rightly want to protect the interests of these constituencies, Eisenmann says, and will strive to do so by keeping... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
employees and lower-level managers to report problems. With customers and investors more attentive than ever to corporate social responsibility, firms that act ethically will have a competitive advantage, Nelson says. “You have more... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
entering this market would present unique challenges for Vanguard. Vanguard had a philosophy espousing low-turnover investing, while ETFs enabled short-term trading. The company would also need to develop a distribution network for ETFs. Finally, since Vanguard's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
From Retail to Real Estate
MBA, he set up the New York-based property investment firm Drake Real Estate Partners. The firm has been of particular interest to Latin American investors looking for the protections offered by American... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
more recently floated, as low as potentially $15 billion. This would constitute a “down round,” and typically prior venture investors receive extra shares to protect their ownership percentage in a down... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
every aspect of business, and life – from pitching to giving feedback, from brainstorming to making group decisions, from interviewing to firing. Creating Value Through Activist Investing This course will expose students to the conceptual and practical aspects of how... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
lab, and a pharmacy. Could they convince rural Indians to leapfrog from local healers to telemedicine? And could they convince investors that their capital intensive, bundled offering was a high-growth, self-sustaining venture?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
percent more than when executives who share the political views of their colleagues depart. “The stock price drops a lot, suggesting that investors actually view these executives as very valuable and that those departures are not in the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
investors. If these results were replicated in health care, in the short term, patients could select hospitals with more adequate surge capacity arrangements and investors in hospital debt and equity would reward them. In the longer run,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
certain strategic assets that are important for building critical military equipment. One can be too cautious about reliance on foreigners. In the early 19th century, the British thought their grain supply was strategic, and they View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is supposed to allow companies to shed debt and get a fresh start. Ideally, creditors recover most of what they’re owed as the restructured firm begins turning a profit. Yet, more companies are liquidated... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
their interventions and benefits consumers who now receive communications that are more relevant to them. However, algorithmic personalization poses risks for firms, consumers, and society. One risk is to underserve customers from View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
Bitcoin, Terra, and Celsius has renewed calls for regulators to protect consumers from fly-by-night currency operators, scammers, and theft. How vulnerable are crypto investors, particularly the retail-level amateur investors? Kominers: I... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
mode of production, we can also reduce the amount of forests and grasslands that are cleared for traditional agriculture (and avoid releasing tons of carbon into the air), protecting our world’s carbon sequestration potential. What... View Details