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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
firms: public private equity firms (PPEs). PG’s results were superlative (565% since inception total return and 22% annual compounded growth) versus the U.S.-based PPEs performance over the same time of 76% to 18%. PG’s multiple was 22x...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
alternative and undervalue the features that they are gaining in the new alternative. Compounding the problem is the fact that the developers of the new product don't realize this. They are, by their nature, evangelists for the new...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
compounded by the fact that my partner is pregnant. For the most part, we have been doing events outside,” said Charlotte. In a similar vein, when talking about his wife and newborn baby, Dylan Beil (MBA ’22, Section H) explained some of...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
was that decision received? Brady: It was mixed. Some of the more experienced soldiers knew that this was a very risky endeavor, and that we had to be strategic about how we thought about this opportunity. And we didn't want to compound...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
the incentives of brokers, and brokers price discriminate based on a consumer's level of sophistication. The model estimates indicate that costly search is a key friction in retail financial markets, but the effects of search costs are View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
necks). For the day celebrating a sectionmate with a hyphenated compound name, everyone replaced their namecards with ones with hyphenated names. 1990H. Besides all the things I think a lot of sections have done (“the wave,” the quote of...
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
percent in fiscal 2023 to $112 million, representing 11 percent of the School’s total operating expenses. Since 2014, IT operating expenses have grown at a compound annual rate of 6 percent and are projected to grow further in fiscal...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
average compounded growth rate over that time has been about 22 percent. Acquisitions have been an important part of your growth strategy since the mid-1990s. How do you manage to fold an acquired firm into Li & Fung? To be bigger, we...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
current context, some within the group wondered if that was the right way for SOS Group to measure and scale its social impact. Compounding these issues, Borello, whose opportunistic acquisition strategy had shaped SOS Group throughout...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
incorporated into a project that led to legislation to ban all shark hunting in the area, including the British Virgin Islands. Some of the other work associated with that trip was worked on to basically, look at-- with the University of Miami-- different kinds of...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
crisis hit the Western markets. The use of project finance has grown at a compound rate of 0% over the last five years, 4% over the past 10 years, and 12% over the past 15 years. This note focuses primarily on private sector investment in...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
ability to create value. Creating superior performance with strategies optimized for adaptation (adjusting to differences), aggregation (overcoming differences), and arbitrage (exploiting differences), and for compound objectives....
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
compound and frantically repeating the name of their commander “Mujahed, Mujahed, Mujahed”. I didn’t see Mujahed in the vehicle, but I did see the casualty they had transported to our base for treatment. As I pulled the patient from the...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
expenditures using project finance in 2006, up from $217 billion in 2001. The use of project finance has grown at a compound rate of 13% over the past 10 years. Focuses primarily on private sector investment in industrial and...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
combinations of herbs and synthetic compounds that were less similar to the prior art and apt to be less contestable. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46704 Different Strokes for Different Folks:...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) (Harper) In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers raiding insurgent compounds in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy carriers that derive 3% to 4% of revenues from cargo). Since a change of ownership in 1994, Lan has grown steadily and quickly at a compound annual growth...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
grow at a compounded annual rate of nearly 90%, and a lot of that will be driven by the automotive industry... In Brooklyn, 45% of fuel consumption is caused by drivers looking for parking spaces. Technology has solutions to those...
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