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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
exactly what they want to learn in order to determine if testing is the best approach. Have stakeholders made a commitment to abide by the results? Are they willing to walk away from a project if the findings suggest they should? Is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
the industry and accounted for its resilience and how these are likely to influence its future. Publisher's link: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22872 2006 John Wiley & Sons Venture Capital & Private Equity: A Casebook By: Lerner,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
Europe's, where bankruptcy laws tend to favor immediate payback of creditors. "Many countries around the world have bankruptcy laws that primarily seek to liquidate distressed companies," he says. "The emphasis is on reimbursing creditors, or protecting... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. False promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
those whose cost of external finance was unchanged. However, while some of the fall in entry was due to less wealthy individuals with high human capital (confirming the presence of financing constraints), the greatest relative decline in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
as to the mussels.” MJ is expanding her climate literacy support to additional school districts in Maryland, once they are vetted for stakeholder and partnership buy-in. For example, she said, “With the Montgomery County Public Schools,... View Details
- Web
Online AI Course | HBS Online
pillars: product value, network value, and data value Explore how businesses can adopt the platform model Identify risks related to digital amplification, algorithmic bias, cybersecurity, privacy, and inclusiveness Craft a presentation about your AI project for View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
relocation of resources in affected fund families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51404... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
deliverables. We have to inspire. We have to be humble. We have to be able to measure outcomes,” he says. Governing a country is also an exercise in managing multiple stakeholders and, at the grandest possible scale, change management—a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
better ex-ante characteristics, bank-affiliated investments have slightly worse outcomes than non-affiliated investments. Also consistent with theory, the cyclicality of banks' engagement in private equity and favorable financing terms are negatively correlated with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly by business itself—will help... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
that corporate and capital market short-termism are related. Moreover, consistent with analytical models that emphasize the costly nature of short-termism, we find that short-term oriented firms exhibit lower future accounting and stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
learn the unvarnished truth from relevant stakeholders about how the design and behavior of the organization is misaligned with its goals and strategy. The Strategic Fitness Process (SFP) was designed to enable leaders to overcome... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
capital firm investing in BIPOC founders in the education space. She is also the vice president of advocacy in the Women’s Student Association at HBS, and an author. “As a published fiction writer, I aim to share and amplify the voices of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
which these issues can be addressed. The course provides students with a framework for analyzing how family ownership, control, and management affect value and whether and how more value can be created for the various stakeholders in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Large numbers of entrepreneurs are self-deploying in this space and will be, and large amounts of capital are being deployed and will be. More companies are finding themselves trying to solve public problems. There are a lot of lessons in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace