Investment Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

equipped to answer. The query typically came at the end of a session, after a productive conversation about delegating, managing a packed calendar, or presenting effectively in meetings. “But I’ve got six-month-old twins at home, and... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710471-PDF-ENG Central Europe after the Crash: Between Europe and the Euro Diego Comin,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2002
News

Michael F. Cronin

young Michael and his four siblings. Cronin soon went to work, too, as a Boston Herald paperboy, the first of innumerable jobs on a résumé that would eventually top out with his current position: cofounder and managing partner of Weston... View Details

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

top. He held weekly staff meetings and used a scorecard that evaluated each leader's performance. He created a leadership model that outlined expectations. The number one expectation was inspiring trust--and that meant managers had to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

19 Apr 2024
News

Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Director, SCF Partners, introduced the second chat, featuring Halliburton CEO Jeff Miller, who talked about oilfield service with moderator Deviyani Misra-Godwin (MBA 2018), Director, SCF Partners. Lourdes Long (MBA 2014), Commercial View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are generally sound, and hedge funds that specialize in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

Launch Lab 1 – and what I’m carrying with me into my product management career. 1. Start with the customer. Why do you design products? Theoretically, you don’t do it just for the sake of building something. The goal of any product team... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

opportunity for the investment pendulum to swing from fast-money ventures to slower, potentially more rewarding endeavors. “If you are willing dive into the frontier of scientific journal articles, the rewards of science-based innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

Well, I have known you for many, many years. We met in college, actually in New Delhi. And then of course we lost touch for many, many years until you showed up in my class, in the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School,... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

How can a company from an emerging economy manage to make waves in global business? Ask Embraer. The Brazilian firm also known as Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. is the fourth largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

Effectively By: Casciaro, T., F. Gino, and M. Kouchaki Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51004 February 2016 Journal of Accounting & Economics Labor Unemployment Insurance and Earnings View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

developing economies and globalization at large. “The cluster concept is often used to consider local factors,” Giacomin says, “but there’s a growing awareness that many clusters are also driven by external forces, such as foreign direct View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Jan 2013
News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

storage racks from collapsing and other major accidents; or perhaps by a particularly dramatic decline in smaller injuries prevented by workers more regularly wearing personal protective gear," says Toffel, who worked as an environment, health, and safety View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 May 2017
News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

and helped take the company public. Along the way, she developed policies that enabled women to thrive at work—telecommuting (before it had a name) and flexible scheduling, among others. “There were no models for how to manage work life... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

coming into the HBS | HKS Joint Degree program. “My goal was to help individuals better invest their money – that was my North Star,” he said. Fast forward ten years, and Reed is living out that vision View Details

Portrait Project

Phil Black

compassionate family is no small accomplishment. HBS's mission is to train business leaders who "contribute to society's well-being," but mine will start at home, where Accounting, Negotiations, Leadership, and Investment View Details

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

rule A great product leader will tell you that if you invest 80 percent of effort to understand the problem, it should result in 20 percent effort to build the right solution. The same applies to hiring. If you take 80 percent of your... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

January 2009
Supplement

The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B2)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane

Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; System; Valuation; New York (state, US)

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Purchase

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

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