Jealousy Of Trade - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

governance and compensation issues 75 percent and 92 percent of the time, respectively. Vanguard has also met with some 1,000 executives from companies it invests in. In 2015, CEO Bill McNabb signaled his recognition View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

argue that this compensation information should be treated as a trade secret. Q: How can regulated public disclosure of performance measures generate inefficiencies in firms' employment contracts? A: An... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

You're a successful senior executive with 20, 25 years of experience under your belt. You've made your mark and stand just 1 or 2 rungs from the position of CEO. Now what? As faculty chair View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone. "What does it do for me as a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

close the finance gap, Krantz dove directly into the industry instead of learning it from the outside. She spent three years in fixed income sales and trading learning new things every day and getting a... View Details

Keywords: Retail

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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA

Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program By Zainab Raji on October 29, 2020 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email Can you share a bit about your background and where you grew up? Zainab Raji I am one View Details

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

to establish a regulatory body made up of digital market experts, similar to the Federal Trade Commission, who would be tasked with monitoring digital price competition and protecting consumers from the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

"someone else." All around the world, as trade barriers continue to fall, and capital markets become more integrated, restructuring is becoming a daily event, and every manager can benefit from having a basic understanding View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

base, says a case study by Victoria Ivashina . What will it take to scale? Private equity has come a long way since the classic book Barbarians at the Gate detailed the excesses of 1980s Wall Street—an earlier move-fast-and-break-things... View Details

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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

Demo Day Semifinalists from both tracks deliver pitches to early-stage investors. New Venture Competition (NVC) Demo Day is a showcase event hosted by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative . NVC Demo Day will highlight a select group... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the rest of the company chugs along, generating revenue. “Our thinking and our capabilities are just now getting to that point.” (courtesy Anne Bonaparte) “Why are the bad guys so successful? In part because they View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

anticipation of the national election, Uyterhoeven wrote an op-ed article published online in Yahoo Finance that emphasized the importance of free trade to the US economy.... View Details

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

in terms of a looming competitor for the same FDI they try to attract, whereas firms based in Taiwan and Hong Kong view a rising China as representing an enormous investment and trading opportunity. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

and strategy with an emphasis on environmental management, Reinhardt recently shared his expertise with HBS alumni during reunion weekend. His talk, titled "Down to Earth: Applying Basic Business Principles to Environmental Management," is also the title... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2000
News

Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

which panelists discussed the integration of financial markets and collaboration among different players in technology sectors as evidence of the power of globalization.... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

Globalization hasn't made manufacturing clusters obsolete, but the geographically concentrated pockets of industry have to be smart to ensure their survival, according to new research from Harvard Business School. Gary P. Pisano, the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

18 Oct 2024
News

My Worst Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

How often have you heard that, when entering a negotiation, you should get your allies onboard first? Conventional wisdom, but not always the best advice. When the United States sought to build a global anti-Iraq coalition following Iraq's 1990 invasion View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

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