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- 01 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs
Organization:Annie McMullen, Harvard Business School Recruiter, University Relations Team, Goldman Sachs Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
interest,” notes Mills. “We like to be the capital that comes in to grow the business to the next level — build the next plant, make an acquisition, or expand the brand.” What makes Solera unique, she adds, is its research-intensive focus... View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
adds a metric that summarizes customer profitability. The ability to measure profitability at the individual customer level allows companies to consider new customer profitability metrics such as "percentage of unprofitable customers."... View Details
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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog
to a real-world public-market investment setting. Students will partner with an investment firm to work directly and deeply on an investment theme or question. In conjunction with their sponsor, students will develop a process and plan... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
team. And these findings hold value in the world of corporate hiring, as well. In 1996, Jeff Borland and Jeanette Ngaire Lye studied data on Australian football coaches to investigate whether a good match plays a role in a coach’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
some of those consumer eyeballs. In "Moment-to-Moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing," forthcoming in Marketing Science, Teixeira and coauthors Michel Wedel of the University of Maryland and Rik Pieters of the Netherlands'... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—Big... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Marketing Club Presents: The Brand Summit
course, multiple networking events that will allow participants to build community. We will zero in on many interesting topics including the role of big data in branding, branding a global company, brand refreshes, activism branding,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
was targeted by a proposal. With respect to the effect on compensation practices, we find that (i) targeted firms where the proposal was approved experienced a decrease in the level of CEO compensation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Role-playing, between a baby boomer and a millennial, for example, on how often one should be recognized for a job well done, also helps increase employee awareness of other perspectives around an issue common to all. According to a 1995 Wharton School study, companies... View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
impression that a private equity firm is unstable. That perception creates a wariness to invest, which means a PE firm often struggles in its attempts to raise the next fund. So in essence, founding partners... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
below. References: Prithwiraj Choudbury and Emma Salomon, GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A), Harvard Business School Publishing, April 2, 2020. Chip Cutter, The Back-to-Work Puzzle, The Wall Street Journal, July 24-25, 2021. Steve Glavesky, The Five View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
approximately 3,200 executives who took biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996; these data show that almost one quarter of these firms had someone on their IPO team who... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
affected Avance as well. Happily, Perez notes, the private equity firm is now thriving as Latinx businesses are recovering. Perez cofounded Avance with his HBS classmate Luis A. Zaldivar (MBA 1996), with whom he had worked at Palladium... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes worked against... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable firms such as Genentech, Genzyme, and Biogen already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna