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  • 22 Nov 2019
  • News

How Fintech Could Pave the Way To Small Business Utopia

  • Article

Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, David Robinson and S. Viswanathan
To test recent theories suggesting that valuation errors affect merger activity, we develop a decomposition that breaks the market-to-book ratio (M/B) into three components: the firm-specific pricing deviation from short-run industry pricing; sector-wide, short-run... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Theory; Behavior
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  • August 2017
  • Article

Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray

By: Eugene F. Soltes
Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Organizational Culture; Business Education
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  • 2009
  • Book

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It

By: Josh Lerner
In response to the financial crisis, governments are being far more aggressive in intervening to promote economic activity, a trend that shows little tendency of alleviating. This book looks at the experiences of governments in encouraging entrepreneurs and venture... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Policy; Business and Government Relations
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  • 30 Apr 2025
  • News

A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

Lecturer Christina Wallace. I first heard her speak at the HBS Women’s Summit in November 2024 and was deeply inspired. The book explores how to design a life that’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • October 2001 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Negotiation; Ethics; Social Issues; Economic Sectors; Investment; Cost vs Benefits; Project Finance; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Finance; Mining Industry; Chad; Cameroon
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  • 05 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Meet The HBS African American Student Union

exposure to VCs, mentors, and advisors. Held at the end of February every year, the conference and pitch competition serves as a culmination of... View Details
  • June 2011 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Mandatory Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure in the European Union

By: George Serafeim
In 2011, the European Commission was deciding on how to best modify the existing European Union policy on corporate disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Previous directives had recommended that European companies report ESG... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Accounting; Competitive Strategy; International Accounting; Financial Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Debates; Europe
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    Making Sense of Past and Present

    Throughout my life as a student, from elementary school to undergrad, I was fond of my history classes. I have always been fascinated by how past events shape our present. I read all View Details
    • 21 Aug 2018
    • News

    The Business Shelf: Driving Digital Strategy

    • Web

    The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    mica splitting department. In the study of fourteen men in the bank wiring test room, where conditions were unaltered, no change in productivity occurred—attributed in part to... View Details
    • 30 Oct 2017
    • News

    Exclusive Q&A: How Retailers Can Escape The ‘Content Trap’

    • January 2010
    • Article

    Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

    By: William R. Kerr
    We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent... View Details
    Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Labor; Immigration; United States
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    • February 2009 (Revised September 2010)
    • Case

    JWT China: Advertising for the New Chinese Consumer

    By: Elisabeth Koll
    This case analyzes the business strategy and expansion of JWT China from the late 1990s to 2008. As part of the world's fourth largest marketing communications network, JWT China grew into one of the largest integrated communications companies in China operating from... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; Expansion; Advertising Industry; China
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    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    The Internet's Next Frontier

    transmitted around the globe. It is a subject that Kominers explores in depth in the recently published book he coauthored with Steve Kaczynski, View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • August 2018 (Revised September 2019)
    • Case

    Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency

    By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta
    Economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch was on a mission to make the art market more transparent. To that end, in 2014, he began building the Magnus app, which catalogued the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users could download the app, take... View Details
    Keywords: Art Market; Transparency; Art Pricing; Business Startups; Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Culture; Business Strategy; Mobile Technology; Fine Arts Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    • April 2013
    • Article

    Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner

    By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
    More and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast groups of strangers distributed around... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Research and Development
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    • 02 Apr 2019
    • News

    The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers

    • 20 May 2015
    • News

    Boston Olympics Concerns, Fixing America's Infrastructure Issues & Public Art On The Greenway

    • 17 Feb 2022
    • Book

    When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

    book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how some leaders embrace “deep purpose” as a generative force that can be a catalyst to achieve both impressive economic... View Details
    Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati