Filter Results:
(607)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (607)
- Faculty Publications (208)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (607)
- Faculty Publications (208)
- Web
Leadership - Health Care
Hamermesh oversaw its inception and development from 2005 to 2015. Professor Hamermesh retired in the spring of 2015, but he remains involved with the Initiative on an advisory basis. Casey Otis Director Casey oversees HCI’s overall... View Details
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
new proxies that quantitatively measure the public's attention and sentiments regarding companies' ESG performance changes. I construct a quarterly panel combining Environment, Society, and Governance metrics and public sentiments from... View Details
- Web
HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Partnership for New York City in 2011, was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve on the US chapter of the G8 Advisory Board on Impact Investing in 2013, and received the Columbia Business School Exemplary Leadership Award in... View Details
- Web
Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
“[requiring] the most exhaustive investigation, careful thought, and conservatively weighted appraisals.” [10] Lehman Brothers also created an investment advisory service for wealthy individuals and... View Details
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
an imperfect proxy for growth . Rather than focus on GDP per se, we should look at standard of living, productivity, innovation." Noting that "GDP is a point-in-time measure," Gerald Nanninga asked. "How much of the... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
measure of short-termism. Second, we have found that our short-termism proxy captures a risk factor that has real implications for the economy, based on its association with companies' stock prices. And third, we build on a recent strand... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
joining HBS. Omar Al Mulhem (MBA 2023, Section A), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Sustainable Investing Team at BlackRock BlackRock is one of the world’s leading providers of investment, advisory and risk management solutions.... View Details
- Fast Answer
Executive compensation
Under Capital IQ Intelligence select Search Profiles. Search by company or by person. Select Compensation from the left sidebar. Compensation data is not available for all individuals and companies. In Wharton Research Data View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
Spangler embarked on an ancillary career of public service in education at the local, county, and state level. He was chairman of the state's Board of Education in 1986 when the University of North Carolina named him its fourteenth... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
In contrast to traditional private equity settings, none of the interviewed anchors sought fee breaks or other preferential economic terms. Some were attracted by the ability to shape the direction and legal structure of the fund or serve on the LP View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
Establishes Advisory Board Foundation, precursor to CityBridge Foundation 1997 Purchases National Journal 1999 Corporate Executive Board (CEB) IPO 1999 Purchases the Atlantic 2001 Advisory Board Company... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
issued with far fewer protections to the lender, known as “cov-lite.” Many have pointed to cov-lite issuance as a proxy for credit market overheating. In the first empirical analysis of this topic, Bo and Victoria evaluate whether this... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
the board of directors to help improve the management of the business. When these negotiations failed, Biglari launched a proxy fight against Friendly in 2007. While these two activist investors shared similar objectives, they worked... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
and industry-level evidence. We find a positive robust correlation between de jure and de facto measures of international financial integration and proxies for entrepreneurial activity such as entry, size, and skewness of the firm-size... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
we need to improve our profit,” he says. For example, a US industrial service company was losing 20 percent of its customers every year. Through research, its leaders realized that when customers stayed with the company for six months,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- October 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture
By: Frances X. Frei, Robin J. Ely and Laura Winig
On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its board of directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies.... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
Frei, Frances X., Robin J. Ely, and Laura Winig. "Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture." Harvard Business School Case 610-015, October 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
- Web
Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
concern took its place as the fourth-largest investment bank in the country. [13] Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. expanded its global financial markets, opening offices in Europe and Asia and serving in a financial advisory capacity in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 21 May 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
rTSR: When Do Relative Performance Metrics Capture Relative Performance?
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
mistake made. Our tests show that previously when there have been serious restatements of financials, those mistakes would lead to a certain number of lawsuits being filed and a certain settlement amount from them. The settlement amount is a View Details