Filter Results:
(2,030)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,030)
- People (12)
- News (385)
- Research (1,188)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (789)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,030)
- People (12)
- News (385)
- Research (1,188)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (789)
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
Party City In 2005, Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in growth equity, was one year into their ownership of Amscan, the market leader of designed, manufactured, and distributed decorated party goods and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the potential for private equity in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
were unable to provide new loans to underwrite company growth. “The recessionary measures that were taken in Greece were not the cause of the crisis.” Even large companies that could ordinarily rely on public equity or debt markets... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
following: Business’s role as a key player in multi-stakeholder collaboration on adaptation; the explicit ways in which public health and equity must be taken into account in decisions around adaptation; how we place value on the... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
firms that are financially constrained, using three novel tests: an exogenous increase in a firm's demand for credit, exogenous variation in the supply of bank loans, and the tendency for firms to pay out the proceeds of equity issues to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
A. El-Erian Periodical:IMF. Finance and Development 44, no. 1 (March 2007) Download the paper: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/03/elerian.htm Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:P.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
international equity markets. The average slope coefficient on the ERP is a highly significant 1.05. In contrast, factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power worldwide. Integrating the model with a dynamic information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Business School Case 213-050 Hotel Ivory Cheick Sanankoua is an MBA student who believes that he has found the perfect investment property, a small, independently owned hotel on the Ivory Coast. However, he has had trouble raising money... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
there’s so much talk around automation, but I would encourage people to pause and reconsider that. It’s actually much more about growing the business. I think of AI as, first and foremost, increasing productivity and driving revenue. For example, Glasswing Ventures has... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
large research and practice infrastructures to produce in-depth insights for a staggering array of public companies, private entities, investment firms, public sector organizations, academic institutions, not-for-profits, and governmental... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid fixed-income assets to maturity, and they rely on deposit insurance and costly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
and money shape our social relationships? Across three studies, utilizing self-report (N=127; N=249) and behavioral outcomes (N=358), we provide the first evidence that the chronic orientation to prioritize time over money encourages greater View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
How can nonprofit leaders address such conflicting demands? Harvard Business School Working Knowledge recently spoke with two leaders in the field of nonprofit performance management. Mario Morino is cofounder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners, which... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
initial caution, growth when it came was both fast and steady. When he sold the company in 1999 to the Spanish food conglomerate Campofrio, TelePizza spanned six countries with more than 600 outlets selling some $250 million worth of pizza a year. He had turned an... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50749 The Risk Anomaly Tradeoff of Leverage By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Higher-beta and higher-volatility equities do not earn commensurately higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2023
- Blog Post
6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process
in various student clubs including the African American Student Union, Armed Forces Alumni Association, Asian Affinity Business Association, Black Investment Club, Latino Student Organization, PRIDE, Women in View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
at Care.com Marcelo at her desk at Care.com Marcelo with her younger son Marcelo with her younger son Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983 Founder and CEO, Providence Equity Partners, LLC Nelson in his Providence office “You partner with... View Details