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  • 30 May 2024
  • News

How to Have Effective Conversations

that common vision and common strategy, you have to be able to communicate what it is. AW: Was there an aha moment where you said, oh, this is a book? CD: I got into this bad pattern with my wife, which was that I would come home for a... View Details
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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

available through HBS Recruiting . Resources for Organizations Learn more about our Executive Education programs, Upswell Forum, and other professional development opportunities, as well as how organizations... View Details
  • 2014
  • Chapter

Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Using administrative data from twelve companies that added a Roth 401(k) option between 2006 and 2010, we describe the characteristics of Roth contributions. Approximately one year after the Roth is introduced, 9% of 401(k) participants have positive Roth balances.... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Investment Funds; United States
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Tata Hall | About

companies and employs more than 400,000 people. During Ratan Tata’s tenure, the business became globally focused, acquiring international brands such as Tetley, Jaguar Land Rover, a string of well-known luxury hotels, and Corus Group Plc,... View Details
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Events - Business & Environment

and is a faculty affiliate of BEI. He has been working in climate tech entrepreneurship and venture capital for a number of years, and he is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for several companies and VC/PE View Details
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

directly estimate the practical capacity of the resources supplied as a percentage of the theoretical capacity. There are various ways to do this. As a rule of thumb, you could simply assume that practical... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • September 2006 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Empemex

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Studies an entrepreneurial venture in Mexico City. The protagonists, two MBAs from HBS, started a pawn shop chain funded from their private equity office after finishing business school. This is timed at a point where the protagonists have to decide how to grow the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Mexico City; United States
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  • October 2024
  • Case

Ranger Energy Services: Bridging Public & Private Markets

By: Joseph Pacelli, Ravi Ramniklal Gondalia and James Weber
In August of 2017, CSL Capital, a private equity fund founded and operated by Charlie Leykum (HBS ’04), was deciding to take one of its portfolio companies, Ranger Energy Services, public. Founded in 2014, Ranger Energy was an oilfield service company providing... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Private Equity; Business Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

number of days a loan remains in syndication. Using market-level and cross-sectional variation in time on the market, we find that a shorter syndication period is associated with a lower final interest rate. The relation is robust to the use of institutional fund flow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Ways Financial Aid is Unique at HBS

When prospective students consider applying to an MBA program, funding the degree is usually top of mind. There's no getting around the fact that pursuing an MBA can be costly, but financial aid at HBS is... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

relationships between those who regulate them, serve them, and invest in them. That’s a lot of substance among responses to this month’s column. As Ulrich Nettesheim put it, “It is View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

fascinated me. Why? Energy is the engine that drives the world’s economy, lifts people out of poverty, and improves quality of life. Oil and gas will be needed for decades and are fundamental to an affordable, just, and secure energy... View Details
  • Career Coach

Okan Okutgen

motivations, strategies and develop their plan to break into new industries. As an international student himself, Okan has navigated the immigration system of the USA and experienced working under multiple... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

immense potential that sit at the intersection of life sciences and business. After studying Chemical Engineering and Finance at Penn, I worked at the healthcare investment banking group of BofA Merrill... View Details
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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Arthur Rock (MBA 1951) Rock Center was made possible by and named in honor of pioneering venture capitalist Arthur Rock (MBA 1951). The present-day home of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship was constructed in 1970 View Details
  • May 2021
  • Article

The Firm Next Door: Using Satellite Images to Study Local Information Advantage

By: Jung Koo Kang, Lorien Stice-Lawrence and Forester Wong
We use novel satellite data that track the number of cars in the parking lots of 92,668 stores for 71 publicly listed U.S. retailers to study the local information advantage of institutional investors. We establish car counts as a timely measure of store-level... View Details
Keywords: Satellite Images; Store-level Performance; Institutional Investors; Local Advantage; Overweighting; Processing Costs; Alternative Data; Big Data; Emerging Technologies; Information; Quality; Institutional Investing; Decision Making; Behavioral Finance; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Planeteer Capital Planeteer Capital is a new Climate Tech venture capital firm that invests in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups. Planeteer invests globally, across hardware and software, and preferences B2B... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

practices and generate descriptive data to help assess performance. Platforms: Leading firms invest in an infrastructure—a set of development tools, technical standards, and working methods—to facilitate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

that the most popular rule is rational choice; it is used in about half the cases. To participate in the competitions, researchers are asked to email the organizers models (implemented in computer programs) that read the incentive structure View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne