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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;... View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s acquisition, she founded Boston Common Asset Management, in 2003. By the fall of 2020, Boston Common had $3 billion under management and a mission to be, as... View Details
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Zou Abstract—There is relatively little prior evidence on the potential impact of rank and file employees on financial reporting choices outside union negotiations. We contribute to the literature by providing new evidence that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
hazard. Our results have broad implications for regulation, financial auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Read the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1640638 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
potential investment. “It’s about leveling the playing field,” Aditya says. To date, the firm has connected more than 1 million investors with some 300 companies, raising in excess of $250 million. To further democratize investing, Aditya... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
partners such as incubators, accelerators, government agencies, and other organizations, the NVSC aims to facilitate connectivity within the ecosystem, and leverage the intellectual, social, and financial capital of alumni. That might be... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors:Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract This paper examines whether staggered boards reduce firm value or are merely associated with it due to the tendency of low-value View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
documents that family-run firms often fail to introduce management techniques that are closely linked to better financial performance. So it’s at least an open question whether being a family View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
forecast characteristic-related stock returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. Our approach is useful for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
business. “I knew it was a great fit for me,” he says. During the fifteen years he has worked at Merrill, O’Neal has proved himself again and again, moving from various positions in different divisions of the firm — View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
2010 to $9.2 billion in 2014, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. In the second quarter of this year, European venture capital firms raised a combined $2.25 billion, 63 percent more than over the same period last year. But that doesn't... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, won the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published that year. Christensen is currently head of the required General Management course. Prior to... View Details
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Authors:Mihir Desai and Li Jin Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Curriculum | MBA
with new content. The goal is to give students a firm grasp of broad-based fundamentals. The School’s inductive learning model goes beyond facts and theories—a process that teaches individuals not only how to manage organizations, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
have significant “skin in the game” when they securitize these mortgages, probably more than the 5 percent required by the Dodd-Frank Act. Lenders should have to hold significantly more capital to protect against losses from these riskier loans. That should also be the... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
retirement in February 2017. The case illustrates how even companies with stellar products can underperform and how benchmarking and financial analysis can help identify drivers of firm performance. The case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
with a “t.” $68 trillion of wealth transferring from baby boomers and older generations to millennials and younger generations over the next 25 years. Most studies suggest that 80 percent or more of the heirs of that wealth will look for a new View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
successfully devote itself to providing objective advice and solutions to companies experiencing management problems. In 1933 Bower joined a small Chicago firm of "management engineers," a phrase coined by the firm's founder and namesake,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
to be in property, and I’m going to do well enough to give you guys a job.’ My parents had no clue about what I was doing, and I really didn’t, either. I just knew that the work involved financial services, which felt aspirational. All... View Details