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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

for the Collective Academy, a for-profit institution of higher learning expected to enroll its first students in early 2016. Initially based in Mexico City, Bichara hopes to expand operations around Mexico and beyond with a curriculum... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

expectations to businesspeople. He also published forecasts through syndicated newspaper columns and made public pronouncements on the future of the economy—including a notorious statement on the eve of the October 1929 stock-market crash... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7

expect others to do more than we do to solve energy problems. We then propose ways in which these biases could actually be used to our advantage in steering ourselves toward better judgment. Finally, we outline the key questions on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

executives, and shareholders; the changing rights and powers of shareholders; different theories of corporate governance and their practical implications; the legal, financial, managerial, and behavioral issues that directors must contend... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

The View from the Pit

Carliss Baldwin first enrolled at HBS, her goal was to work on Wall Street. But things did not go exactly as planned. "During my last year at MIT," she explains, "I had taken some courses from [current HBS professor] Bob Merton on the View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

and even though the entrepreneur holds all of the market power in the model. Furthermore, although perfectly competitive investors expect zero alpha in equilibrium, the nature of the three-way interaction results in a correlation between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

consistent with established economic theories of accounting. That said, the results suggest that accounting has a broader political role than was previously thought. What surprised us was the significance of our estimates. We were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

good. What's missing is the confirmation of a profit formula that turns volume into serious cash. Another theory we think about in new growth situations is something we call "good money/bad money." It asserts that in the early stages of... View Details
Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

logic than firms utilize to organize market resources.) Second, there has been very little (if any) significant research linking firm strategy to both nonmarket outcomes and firm performance. Most research has developed theories and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

and guesswork. This theory enabled options transactors to take much bigger positions because they were hedged; they could be much more efficient, and they could control their risk much better. If you look at the last 25 years of... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

are the opposite of what we'd expect based on large-company compensation patterns. Q: Can you explain the difference between stewardship theory and agency theory? How do these View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked. We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make plans to save for retirement, we... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Short Takes

narrowed. "Much of what we teach in management theory is that there is one best way to do things," West observes. To explain the existence of two "best ways," he cites differences in the institutional contexts in which U.S. and Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

re-education occurred when Spier won an opportunity to lunch with the Oracle of Omaha, a three-hour steak-a-thon. Buffett encouraged his dining companions to live their lives by an internal scorecard and to filter out distractions and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job

working late at night means that few people are going to be in the correct state of mind. It’s so disconnected from the magnitude of what could potentially happen if something were to go wrong.” —Sam Berube (MBA 2025) Students prepare cases about the kinds of companies... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustration by Peter Arkle; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

Value: An Examination of Equity Betas and Bid-Ask Spreads Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim Abstract Finance theory suggests that information risk—that is, the uncertainty regarding valuation parameters for an underlying... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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