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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
come. If the VC is vulnerable, use the opportunity to build trust rather than to take advantage. Focus on value-not just valuation. Nonfinancial considerations such as control are also important. Strive for understanding. Seemingly... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
cheaper) to manufacture in China. So depending on one’s perspective, China can be seen as both a challenge and an opportunity for U.S. manufacturing. For Sharpe and Katz, it is competitor and partner. As a competitor, there’s broad... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
An internal event held each May, the annual Faculty Research Symposium affords the opportunity for a few Harvard Business School faculty to share their latest research with an audience of doctoral students, HBS staff, and other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
side, he brings an unconventional, but always practical, lens on many things. He is generous toward other people’s career progressions and development and he tries to give people opportunities to do good work and succeed.” — HBS professor... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
stations. I hope the uptime metric means that more people will give thought to the funding needed and will signal to companies that the time is now to invest in the means necessary to meet the 97% standard, if they haven’t already done... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
is really to simplify everything. One of my bosses founded probably one of the most successful investment companies in the world based in China, growing from $30 million in assets to $25 billion in 11 years largely through organic... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS.... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
opportunities, and defined the opportunities for packet software. That framework is changing now. The Internet is redefining software. The Internet is redefining the role of computing and communication and their interaction with each... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the opportunity effect). We find that actual awardees of subjective rewards (penalties) exhibit higher (lower) subsequent performance, and that employees who missed out on potential rewards (penalties) due to management’s subjectivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
what “pre-soliciting clients” meant, for example. Do the same when you’re in the role of NewCo. Taking great care in hiring teams and individuals shows people thinking about leaving how seriously you view defections. Discourage lift outs through incentives and... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
that the strategies that made you successful in the past won’t guarantee success in the future. You do it by creating an organization that’s hungry to learn, that invests in innovation to find new answers to old problems, and that is open... View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
modify the questions to suit their particular needs, but that didn't meet our research objectives," Deshpandé recalls. “We just hung on for dear life and moved as quickly as we could."—Joshua Margolis Executives who did choose to participate saw the survey as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
the problem as early as possible. This is why I recommend that companies do a "restructuring audit" on their businesses periodically, looking for opportunities to create value by voluntarily restructuring, before circumstances... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
show that BNDES's purchases of equity lead to increases in return on assets and investment in fixed assets. Finally, we find that the positive effect of BNDES's equity purchases is reduced when the target firms belong to state-owned and... View Details
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Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN
have heard about the on-campus experience from friends or colleagues and want to experience that for themselves—including the opportunity to learn and network with senior executives from all over the globe. Learning from peers who... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
behavior and explore how they make a negotiator particularly vulnerable to ethical fading, resulting in subsequent unethical behavior. We discuss several opportunities for future research in the negotiation discipline and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when private equity firms sell off an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace