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- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors” “Our findings highlight that an important source of returns for fund managers in the stock market is not their superior skill or investment acumen,” the authors write. “Rather, some managers appear to free-ride on the... View Details
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Pamela Harder
architect behind the Amazon HQ2 $1.1B tech talent investment program. Prior to that, Pam ran Strategy & Business Operations at Clever, a K12 edtech startup in San Francisco. Under her leadership, she helped the company explore new View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
software start-up straight out of Yale. She was running the company by the time she left for HBS in 1992. After HBS, she helped launch Open Market, an Internet start-up that made e-commerce software, where she handled both View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)
freedom to live your life, your way. I look at celebrities through a stark business lens. Instead of agreeing that Beyoncé is one of the most influential people in the world because Time magazine said so, or because she has the most... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
business model, he continued. He also said start-ups should spend more time on market verification and market feedback than on the "front office" issues of building a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Anthony Tan
countries and has its own sights on the Asian marketplace. “We will do whatever it takes to ensure that we maintain our leadership in an ethical and moral way,” Tan said when the Softbank investment was announced. “It’s a fight for View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
name of tracking terrorists that we begin to take it for granted as consumers? In fact, will we one day look back on September 11 as a point in time when data warehousers were able to take a significant step forward in fully utilizing the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
Dolphin Comport: To Wilson, the bowl of this piece (c. 1929) "suggests a body in an endless pirouette." Photo Courtesy of Charlie Wilson When Charlie Wilson (MBA 1967) was a small boy, he lived for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
high levels of employee engagement "turns around and pays back multiple times what you invest in it," Gochnauer said. And sometimes, boards do get it. "I find that boardrooms are filled with people who want to be proud of what they're... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
means to understand human behavior and finds ways to accommodate and direct such behaviors." Citing the works of Ronald Coase, David Touve opined, "It would seem that economics has grappled with the question of markets for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s... View Details
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
market leader with $330 billion dollars in assets under management. Along the way, he has emerged as a patron of education, best known for launching the Schwarzman Scholars, an academic and cultural immersion program designed to foster... View Details
- Profile
Aspa Lekka
"I started knowing nothing," she says. But she went above and beyond the call of duty, completing extra work to advance her skills. "I managed to build a number of models for digital marketing – it gave me deep knowledge of... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
educational products. A key aspect of LEGO’s approach to the educational toy market centers on educating parents about the importance of play. “Play is undervalued,” explains Moynihan. “Children’s lives are so structured that they often... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
on the country overall. “And we really understood why companies weren't scaling, and why they weren't growing, and why people were actually having trouble even starting businesses. So we provide a suite of services to any company that we start, anything from business... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
College, it was at a time when African Americans were not even allowed to live on campus. When he graduated from HBS, no one would offer him a job. Yet throughout his life, his unwavering optimistic spirit brought him great success and... View Details
- February 2004 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
As the engineering of state-of-the-art jet engines becomes more and more complex, Pratt & Whitney leaders face major competitive problems. Product development projects are not meeting the cost, quality, and lead-time targets. The leadership develops a design,... View Details
Keywords: Design; Engineering; Cost; Knowledge Management; Time Management; Product Launch; Standards; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work." Harvard Business School Case 604-084, February 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these products and services, particularly those in which you can’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
that from time to time they will take on more risk than they should. In another study, Hanson found that investors who were around to see firsthand a hiccup in the bond market... View Details