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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put option View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
of the Class of 1997 (Jennifer Scott Fonstad, David Rosenblatt, and John Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. "We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
terms of drugs, technology, devices, information technology, and personnel; then secondarily, the current regulations in place and the payment models. Part of the purpose of writing Designing Care has been to emphasize the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
understand why experimental subjects might begin negotiations anticipating "fair" bargains. The model also explains why some parties may have incentives to deliberately write incomplete contracts which cannot be enforced in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
children were off from school. He told us that managers took note of this and realized that it was now okay from them to manage their work-life balance. Q: What are you working on next? A: I am now working with my colleagues to write a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
talk about how Liberty actually can support mitigation and adaptation and what that looks like in real terms. Tim Sweeney: We have risk engineers on staff. And so even when new construction projects are happening now, we lend our risk engineers, we often View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. “We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about writing the best plan and making the best presentation —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
“But it was the right approach for the time,” says Nohria, who joined the faculty in 1988 and, like Palepu, is a native of India. Writing in the Sept./Oct. 2011 issue of Harvard Magazine, he noted, “In the 1980s, the best companies, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
It’s LEAD and TOM, in the sense that my cofounder and I are writing a lot of our content. So how do we scale ourselves? How do we instill processes that would allow us to drop any strong writer into the New Paper so they can produce... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
this much talked-about MBA event, because it views the contest as an in-depth learning experience. "We designed the contest to integrate many aspects of what we've learned in business school - writing a business plan makes all the... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
believe that enforcing educational standards and a code of ethics is unlikely to choke entrepreneurial creativity. Indeed, if the field of medicine is any indication, a code may even stimulate creativity. The main challenge in writing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
lens: maybe they should apply for USDA grants, become a seed bank, and consider a revenue model. Then the students read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In it, she writes of the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
move forward. The Dad Advice Project: Words of Wisdom from Guys Who Love Being Dads By Craig Kessler (MBA 2014) Savio Republic In early 2019, while in search of parenting advice, father of three young boys and author Craig Kessler asked a handful of friends to View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
of reviews written by consumers. Consumers were becoming increasingly motivated to read and write reviews on TripAdvisor, largely as a means of informing other consumers about their personal experiences, but also to praise or complain to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
actually consistent with design principles established by the development team? The case seeks to expand students' view of the product development process. Traditional software development projects begin with the gathering of requirements and analysis of the problem,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in order to give case-writing workshop participants practice writing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
to go and deal with those forks in the road. Flint: You also write about how, as humans, we’re not very good at thinking constructively about either success or failure. In your book you quote Thomas Edison in his effort to build the light... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
presentation skills, because I would have to give presentations frequently to senior management. And one develops very good presentation skills, the way one writes one's slides, the story one tells. And so that work was very relevant in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
was 'the book is not working, so don't use the book—try something different, then write a new book.'" While the objectives were admirable, the way NASA went about implementing FBC was somewhat surprising. The approach appeared to be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
collar and a sketch on a Palo Alto bar napkin helped launch a tech giant. READ MORE Jen Flint: I wondered if the two of you could go back and tell us the story of how you wound up writing this business plan together as a school project... View Details