Financial Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

integration across multiple offices, ancillary businesses, early adoption of financial reporting software, and consensus-based decision making. The firm was proud of its corporate culture and sought to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

almost every facet of business," stated HBS professor Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., in a 1991 article. "You can't really understand some of them unless you understand the marketing issues, financial issues, and production issues in the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

façade that we build around our lives," Clark observed. "I think there will be a sense of real meaning during the year." In the same Harbus issue, Rick Leimsider (HBS '03), a new arrival on campus who had "never written to a newspaper before," challenged his fellow... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

opinion on their side, and they had friends in high places. In October, Go-Jek’s Makarim accompanied Indonesian President Joko Widodo on his first state visit to the United States. One of the stops was in Silicon Valley, where the president did the rounds in hopes of... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

dilemma" in which a startup's resource dependence drives a wedge between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of decision making. I develop hypotheses about this tradeoff and test the hypotheses on a unique... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

reward. After a year, the researchers sat down to analyze the results. Ashraf is a behavioral economist, so she knows people make financial decisions in complex ways, but even she was surprised by what they... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

May 2022
Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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Purchase

01 Jun 2015
News

Higher Ground

decision to conduct Prieto didn’t pursue executive life to disown music. He’s just inquisitive by nature. “I’m still propelled more today by curiosity than anything else,” he says. It’s a family trait. His father graduated from MIT with... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

to join all of us on the journey as we learn, and revise, and shape the experience and the definition. Justine Hong - MBA ‘19 I recently got in an argument with my mom, telling her she defined success for my sister and me too narrowly. By prioritizing formal... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

picture of the pandemic and its impact on the world. Her goal, she says, is to empower people to make the best decisions to protect themselves and their families. She is the founder of MedStars, a pioneer in the health tech field that... View Details

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