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February 2021
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HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics (C)

By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh

July 2017 was supposed to be a triumphant month for HNA Group. The latest Fortune Global 500 list showed the company had again skyrocketed in its ranking to no. 170, an improvement of over 200 positions from the year prior. Yet earlier that same July, the mysterious... View Details

Keywords: Conglomerate; Airline Industry; Coronavirus; Financial Risk; Debt; Bankruptcy; Global Strategy; Restructuring; Health Pandemics; Financial Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Condition; Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Air Transportation Industry; Financial Services Industry; China

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Clubs - Alumni

Clubs Global network, local connections. 105. That’s how many alumni clubs, identity and industry associations and Harvard Club affiliates in 51 countries are already networking and serving their communities. Global Network 96 Regional... View Details

22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

Publication:Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 12 (December 2009): 4919- Abstract This paper investigates how the job histories of CEOs influence their capital allocation decisions when they preside over multi-divisional firms. I find that after CEO turnover,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2010
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Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

Keywords: by Abigail Allen & Karthik Ramanna; Accounting

25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

stores are multi-sided platforms (MSPs). We propose a definition that provides a more precise notion of MSPs by requiring that they enable direct interactions between the multiple customer types that are affiliated with them. Several... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2012
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Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health

February 2021 (Revised May 2021)
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SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service

By: Ramana Nanda, Abhishek Nagaraj and Allison Ciechanover

Set in January 2021, the CEO of SafeGraph, a four-year-old startup that sold Data as a Service, looked to the future. His aim was to become the most trusted source for data about a physical place. The company provided points of interest (POI) and foot traffic data on... View Details

Keywords: Data As A Service; Monetization; Pricing; Business Startups; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Analysis; Business Model; Health Pandemics; Information Industry; United States

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Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

Administration Luis M. Viceira George E. Bates Professor William C. Vrattos Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Jonathan L. Wallen Assistant Professor of Business Administration Royce G. Yudkoff MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice of... View Details

15 Mar 2024
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Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

global businesses where if we aren’t talking about the politics in those countries, how do we have a proper supply chain? Do we just guess?” Wing asks. While personal voting records and political party affiliations don’t need to be... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital (joint with George Baker and Nancy Dean Beaulieu)

The accumulation of firm-specific knowledge improves firm productivity and employee reten-tion, by creating a wedge between what the employee is worth inside and outside the firm. How does the firm create incentives for investment in firm-specific human capital when... View Details

2025
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Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

By: Sergey Chernenko, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein

We show that business development companies (BDCs), a significant source of private credit, are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. These types of private credit funds have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36%, which is 26 percentage... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Capital; Credit; Financial Institutions

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Competitiveness & Economic Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

learn more about the "Microeconomics of Competitiveness" (MOC) course led by Michael Porter and offered at Harvard and 100+ affiliated universities around the world. Frameworks & Key Concepts Understand the key concepts of national... View Details

18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

forthcoming Academy of Management Journal Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Though organizations are increasingly active... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Giving - Alumni

at Harvard University. Gifts to HBS from alumni and friends living outside the United States may be directed to one of our affiliated charitable entities in order to qualify for a tax deduction or a tax credit. France Germany India United... View Details

26 Apr 2016
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April 26

intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Paul W. Marshall

MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel

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Marketing Faculty - Faculty & Research

Emeritus Pietro Satriano Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Isamar Troncoso Assistant Professor of Business Administration Jeremy Yang Assistant Professor of Business Administration Shunyuan Zhang Associate Professor of Business Administration Unit View Details

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Accounting & Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

Business Administration, Emeritus Suraj Srinivasan Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration Chair, MBA Elective Curriculum Charles C.Y. Wang Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration Yuan Zou Assistant Professor Hellman Faculty Fellow Unit View Details

22 Apr 2010
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Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan

Keywords: by Douglas J. Skinner & Suraj Srinivasan

2021
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Does Who Helps You Impact Your Behavior? Examining the Effects of Social Interactions on Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities

By: Eunkwang Seo, Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah

Online communities provide vibrant forums for knowledge sharing and are increasingly being used by individual users and firms to source knowledge and create and capture value. Yet, there is much to learn about how the actions of community members affect other members,... View Details

Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Development; Innovation; Reciprocity; Knowledge Sharing; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Interpersonal Communication

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