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- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
both the pace of globalization in today's world, and the reappearance of multiple critics. This book is motivated by the belief that it is important to provide robust historical evidence on which to inform opinions and judgment about both... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- Student-Profile
Ta-Wei "David" Huang
management and using causal inference / machine learning tools to solve marketing problems.” It was this motivation that led him to pursue a Ph.D. Initially, David’s familiarity with HBS was limited to the MBA program but he quickly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
and the motivation of real life.” In Baobab’s first short film, Invasion!, released in 2016, actor Ethan Hawke narrates a scene in which a frightened white rabbit named Chloe tangles with a pair of bumbling alien invaders, Mac and Cheze.... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
motivated and characterized successful firms for decades, in the environmental arena and elsewhere. Thus, he concludes, "The way to situate business in the context of the natural environment is to integrate the natural environment into... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
businesses in this country. Without listening, the organization (and its stakeholders) can't properly adapt to customers or the marketplace. How do you motivate business leaders who are not good listeners to become so? Force of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
smaller companies who are used to accountability." Stever Robbins commented, "Why do we even spend our time debating whether a Fortune 500 CEO is 'worth it'? Why, instead, don't we seek to hire people who are so motivated to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective
has motivated us both to apply to HBS for an MBA in the future. Having experienced a small taste of what life at HBS is like has left a lasting impression on us both. We hope that being back in the classroom at HBS discussing complex... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
investing in change,” said Maarten Wetselaar of Royal Dutch Shell. Students and attendees alike ended the evening more inspired and motivated to create change and transform the energy ecosystem into a more sustainable and equitable one... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on entrepreneurial self-organization,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
implicit, sometimes explicit, belief that business and health care do not mix. I think what people mean when they express this belief is that the profit motive in health care bothers them. Yet business schools think about management... View Details
- 29 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Marimar Pérez-Riera (MBA 1994)
intending to minimize my entrepreneurial ventures, or my governmental service. However, over the years I have become an advocate for condominium titleholders’ rights. I defend, teach, and motivate thousands of titleholders who are abused... View Details
- Web
Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“How do you motivate employees with ‘psychic equity’? or “How can we approach shareholder value creation in a broader way?” It’s much more about back-and-forth learning between the public and private sectors. Linda Rottenberg Job Title... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
service these men and women do for us and our country. It enables me to honor that commitment even though I did not serve,” he says. York was motivated to make this gift because of his experiences interacting with veterans who were his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Fisher Associates in San Francisco, which invests in early-stage technology and telecommunications ventures. What will motivate Scott in her new job is what has inspired her in all of her endeavors - the pleasure she gets from bringing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
John’s original objectives was to motivate young graduates to go to work in the nonprofit sector as their first or second job, and he has certainly done that at HBS,” says Rangan. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
reconnecting with the community, being able to walk the streets and talk to leaders, I saw that there is an opportunity for a real galvanization of optimism. People have an optimism and motivation to make a difference. What was missing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
already established careers overlooks the fact that many graduates have been motivated by the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative to pursue this work full-time,” said Nancy Lane (PMD 29, 1975), a member of the dinner committee and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
institutional investors lack the motivation and time to effectively discipline or otherwise oversee management. And investors all have differing time frames, priorities, and objectives. Top corporate executives, meanwhile, as highly... View Details
- December 2010
- Article
Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Inflation and Deflation; System Shocks; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Framework; Problems and Challenges; Interest Rates; Cost; Developing Countries and Economies; Service Operations
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race." Journal of International Money and Finance 29, no. 8 (December 2010): 1706–1726. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.)