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01 Mar 2012
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innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

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Dean LeBaron | Baker Library

Dean LeBaron MBA 1960, Batterymarch Play Video duration: 1:35:29 Dean LeBaron, HBS 1960. Interview conducted in February 2001 Dean LeBaron, HBS 1960, was working for an investment services firm when he became interested in cutting-edge economic theories about View Details

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

that issuance is partly an attempt to arbitrage mispriced characteristics. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on book-to-market, size, price, distress, payout policy, profitability, and industry. Our results provide a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2011
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Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis

By: Robert C. Pozen, Betsy Palmer and Natalie Shapiro

Keywords: History; Assets; Resource Allocation; Investment Portfolio; Financial Crisis

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10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

there isn’t a better fit out there, or you realize there is something else you should pursue.” Before the Carnegie Corporation, you were at the Ford Foundation for 13 years, as a portfolio strategist and senior View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

advantage of lax monitoring to build corporate empires with little strategic coherence, producing commensurately lackadaisical results. I do believe, however, that with the abandonment of the professionalization project and the idea that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jun 2003
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Dean Clark Addresses Journalists

The nation’s business schools have a responsibility to contribute to that effort, Clark said, describing a special series of workshops on corporate issues undertaken at the School during the past academic year. Known as Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Values, the... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

01 Jun 2009
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Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow

As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

June 2000 (Revised March 2003)
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IBM Technology Group

By: Andrew P. McAfee and Kerry Herman

Explores two main issues: how the IBM Technology Group was able to build a robust, scalable, and functional IT platform using packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from SAP, and how the division should best leverage this capability going forward. View Details

Keywords: Management; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Projects; Information Technology Industry

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Approach." MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. LFE-1027-97 (June 1997). Black, Fischer. "How We Came Up with the Option Formula." Journal of Portfolio Management... View Details

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business

Mikitani announced the changeover, in English, in March 2010 and set a two-year deadline for everyone to demonstrate English proficiency or sacrifice chances for advancement. He dubbed the project “Englishnization,” which has attracted... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

diversification of assets, managed through a portfolio of exchange-traded funds (ETF’s) that track market indexes. “It’s a great way to invest cheaply in a diversified basket of stocks, bonds, and other... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Oct 1998
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A Zest to Invest

organizational issues. "I never thought my courses at HBS on managing people would be applicable to me," he confesses. "But my job has become more administrative and supervisory. I used to think I could turn a talented analyst or View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

20 May 2025
Blog Post

How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value

Strategic Finance, who welcomed the conversation and scheduled a call to explore potential projects and align on goals. “They had never had an intern before, so this was a brand new program that we workshopped together based on both of... View Details

24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business

Emeritus André Perold, who taught an investment management class and with whom Callaghan did research. Callaghan's subsequent career included portfolio management at Equitable... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Cindy Horowitz

Cindy (HBS ’81) brings 20 years of broad management experience to coaching students interested in general management, finance, operations and other corporate roles. She helps students understand the various roles open to them and the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

wealth. The focus of Investment Strategies is financial markets, principally equity markets, taking the perspective of an institutional portfolio manager and considering the efficacy of value investing,... View Details

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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

appropriate for: Marketing professionals charged with creating, nurturing, and managing brand value; Entrepreneurs looking to create their own brands in the consumer/retail space; Consumer/retail general View Details

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