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26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

of employee retention and willingness to log onto the training platform, each additional minute of average platform engagement per employee resulted in 0.78 fewer new clients per month. Taken together, these View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Daniel Serna

section bonds to lessons in leadership. "Even in a functional class, such as Financial Reporting & Control — it's not at all just about accounting. We always talk about the rules in terms of the gray areas, the boundaries. Good... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

on its balance sheet leading to low levels of net debt. The case requires students to analyze performance using Modified Dupont Decomposition techniques to assess if firm performance is resulting from operating profitability or from View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

the US Small Business Administration and now on the faculty at HBS. The situation worsened during the 2008 financial crisis, and lending to the sector has never really recovered. Armed with proprietary algorithms and can-do attitudes,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-039%20Nov%202012_612ce7e2-7f81-4eea-9126-3c0964f2be2f.pdf August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace safety infractions, and View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

would not be tractable and it would not be possible to obtain results. After having analyzed the base model, we relax some of these assumptions. Harnessing demand-side learning more efficiently is not sufficient for Linux to win the competitive battle against Windows.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

descent. Black students were unwelcome at existing public and private institutions of higher education, even after the passing of specific legislation, resulting in lack of access to higher education opportunities. Excerpt from... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

you’re in. Mike Toffel: And there’s a real limitation to thinking that win-win opportunities that provide both financial and environmental gains will get us where we need to go. In some domains—especially where the cause and View Details

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

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Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details

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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and pursues an action research agenda with practitioners, which results in multiple papers and course notes, a project-based field course, and a case-based course module on the mobilization of financial... View Details

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

and entrepreneurial management, done with colleagues C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr. at the University of Michigan. Their research will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Financial Economics. In this interview, Desai... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Sep 2010
News

Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

paths, the end result is a positive one. Over the summer, the Bulletin had a chance to talk to this year’s honorees, who arrive on campus September 28 to accept their awards. For complete profiles, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/awards/. Susan... View Details

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01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

members of the Fed pay attention to media speculation? How do they deal with a situation where the speculation is going in the wrong direction and will likely result in a “surprise” to the markets when announced? Would they prefer to... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

08 Oct 2010
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Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Often the CEO is portrayed as 'the only person in the world who could do this job' You can thank the financial press for this mystique." In pointing out the futility of the effort, Rebecca West commented that "the current... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

results in a financial flow, where the debt of deficit countries is bought by surplus countries, who now own several trillion dollars of foreign assets. A related problem are the fiscal (government budget)... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

increased correlations of discount rate shocks resulting from financial globalization as the main driver of the upward shift in stock return correlations. We also identify increased correlations of inflation... View Details