Conservation - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

operations. That said, these same women are often more conservative when forecasting financial goals and with raising significant rounds of capital. And, even if they have a big vision, they are less confident in declaring at the outset... View Details

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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

force in US finance and industry. At the age of 23, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank, where he worked as a teller. Just 14 years later, he became the bank’s president. Under his conservative... View Details

06 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

lamebrained the idea. Also, we have difficult factor markets like energy, but that simply means that there are great opportunities for people with ideas for alternative energy. Were I rewriting the article today, I might emphasize the importance of controlling your... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

may also try to overcorrect in areas where they failed the first time, such as overanalyzing or delaying decisions, being too conservative on cash flow, or focusing too much on scalability too early in the product-development process. If... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

reward processing in humans. These techniques have revealed that evolutionarily conserved circuits related to affect generate distinguishable appetitive and consummatory signals, and that these signals can be used to predict choice and... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

accessed October 18, 2019. “ Forests and Climate Change ,” International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), November 2017. “ Food Regenerative Agriculture ,” Project Drawdown, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019. Rebecca Duff, Michael J... View Details

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Sep 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira

01 Jan 2013
News

Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation Download Sant profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1931 Born, Los Angeles, California 1955 Earns BS, Business Management, Brigham Young University 1955 Commissioned Ensign, US Navy 1960... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

exit, they do just as well as the majority groups,” says Lerner. “And if anything, they seem to be more conservative in valuing things.” Additionally, the minority groups were able to scale up staffing when necessary and were not doing... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

performance a lot you may get individuals who like risk, whereas if you have a more conservative incentive scheme you may get individuals who are more conservative. And depending on the goals of your organization, you may want to attract... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

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In the Community | About

on advisory boards at local organizations. $ 270 k total donations and in-kind support to Greater Boston organizations Local Organizations Supported (partial) Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation Brian Honan Foundation Charles River View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Who Was George F. Baker?

Related Links Where Conservation Means Business In today’s media-saturated business world, it seems almost incomprehensible that a preeminent financier and philanthropist would remain virtually unknown to the public. Yet, near the end of... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

Where Conservation Means Business In the Baker Library Historical Collections’basement conservation lab, yesterday’s ledgers are tomorrow’s research materials Downtime Ever wonder what HBS professors read... View Details

2020
Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman

The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details

Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States

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Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA

community at HBS. Yanzhan Wen (he/him), Class of 2025 Representation is important. My existence stands as a testament to that truth. Growing up in a socially conservative household, I was taught that homosexuality was akin to a mental... View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

& Advertising Club Rob Self “I started my career in auto,” Rob says, “because it’s simultaneously something that impacts just about every person in the world while being a huge contributor to carbon emissions. I wanted to help people live more comfortable lives... View Details

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

better enable organizations to leverage intelligence from outside of the organization, and what about AI? How could that be used as a tool for problem solving within organizations now? CC: Can I give you two examples? So the Nature View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

certain diseases, for example—the human body is the same the world over, Gresser points out. “It’s a very exciting proposition to have a truly global product.” That said, innovation can be slow to take hold in the industry, which tends to be View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

has an MBA from Harvard Business School and obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University. He is a Trustee of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and serves on the boards of Manugistics (MANU), Exult (EXLT),... View Details

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