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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
actually going to a physical locale. "A lot of our MBAs are taking a good shot at the entry barriers set up by establishments that have spent twenty years and a lot of money building brand equity in retail locations," he notes. As...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder—CEO should exit or be fired....
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
use tools they already had, or they neglected to request new tools to meet the challenges of an evolving financial system." -David Moss Among the proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance...
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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
here at HBS. Then actually got called up by one of my portfolio companies that I had led as a private equity investor and ran M&A and strategy. So that was my coming out of that. What I found most interesting about the story is I left...
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- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
Equity and Inclusion in corporate America. Gana and I started an organization called Blackminds to shine a light on the stories of success from everyday black and brown people across the world. We’re looking to bring to life stories like...
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- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
incentives influence students' acquisition of S&E human capital during college. The 2008–2009 financial crisis, which substantially reduced the availability of jobs in finance and led to a worsening labor market in general, prompted...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
business opportunity. For example, in an equity spin-off, a diversified firm's businesses are split apart into independent entities, each with its own common stock. Spin-offs can make sense when a high-growth business is being held back...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
hold greater amounts of cash but do not carry a smaller amount of electronic value indicating that they devote more capital to their inventory. These results offer insight to mobile money operators with respect to monitoring, training,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
not need to optimize the timing of their equity issues. Consistent with these predictions, I use a unique panel of non-SEC-filing private U.S. firms to show that the average public firm holds twice as much cash as the average private...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
association between different kinds of firm interlocks, control groups, and synchronicity in Chile. A unique data set containing equity cross holdings, common individual owners, and director interlocks is used to map out firm ties and...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
second tier market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), it aimed to provide Chinese entrepreneurs with equity capital and to facilitate the exits of venture capital firms and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2020
place new performance incentives. HMC’s investment portfolio is evolving in parallel. Repositioning of the portfolio’s liquid assets—public equities and hedge funds—is well underway. Given the nature of HMC’s illiquid investments—private...
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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
required to support them. Further, government payment for sick people's health care expenses will diminish the massive venture capital investment needed for developing genomically-derived therapies. We stand at the brink of a revolution...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://intranet.hbs.edu/dept/drfd/new_publications/papers/Porter-Ketels/clusters.pdf Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions Authors:Toby E. Stuart and Soojin Yim Publication:Journal of Financial...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline, $6 billion Iridium global satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique, and $20 billion Sakhalin II gas field in Russia. Globally,...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
worried, hey, I'm a military guy. I don't have any experience in accounting or private equity or finance. I have no idea what the difference between alpha and beta is. I don't really know anything about marketing or funnels. But really,...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
information you have. Ultimately, this process leads you to a zone for judgment; it's a process I have used throughout my career." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Director, The Council for Excellence in Government Director, Capital Partners for...
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