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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Start Up Strategy and Management
Bussgang’s research focuses on applying Lean Startup principles to early-stage technology companies as well as the challenges and opportunities when scaling startups. His work led to the creation of the MBA elective... View Details

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By: Olivia S. Kim
My research examines how firms and households make financial decisions, with a focus on the role of the family. My work evaluates how financial regulations shape credit and consumption disparities within the household and the extent to which business owners' family... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Financial Intermediation
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By: Charlotte L. Robertson
Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:... View Details
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By: Peter Tufano
Tufano’s research has focused on financial innovation and financial engineering—and for more than two decades, household finance. While he continues to study these topics, his current primary research is on the role of business in addressing climate change. With... View Details
Keywords: Financial Innovation; Financial Engineering; Household Finance; Leadership Transitions
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By: Brian L. Trelstad
The focus of my research is on the systems of social innovation. How small groups of individuals come up with new products and services targeting important problems; how they finance these initial efforts, and convert prototypes into viable organizational strategies;... View Details
Keywords: (General) Management; Social Business; Non-profit Management; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Entrepreneurial Finance; System Dynamics; Non-profit; Evaluation; Impact Investing; Venture Philanthropy; Social Enterprise Initiative; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Civil Society or Community; System; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Health Industry; Energy Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Public Administration Industry; Service Industry
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By: Kevin P. Mohan
Kevin Mohan is currently researching negotiations in private company contexts, including topics such as financings, compensation systems, budgeting and planning, recruiting, and succession. View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Succession; Family Business; Negotiation; Negotiation Process; Private Ownership; Finance; Compensation and Benefits; Budgets and Budgeting; Recruitment; Management Succession
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By: Ashley V. Whillans
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
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By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Winner of the Harvard Business School outstanding teacher award and research awards from U.S. and international health care and accounting organizations: 2016 “60 of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2016,” Becker’s Hospital Review, January 3, 2017 ; 2014 ... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Insurance; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Information Technology
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Scaling Minority Businesses

By: Archie L. Jones

Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB) is a field course designed to leverage the intellectual power and community of Harvard Business School to address the vital needs of Black-owned enterprises as they face the twin tasks of surviving and growing. The course... View Details

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Strategic Financial Analysis

By: Suraj Srinivasan

In a competitive climate, how do some companies outperform others? Managers, consultants, analysts, and investors must understand financial analysis to answer that question and make strategic decisions that drive business profitability and... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Restructuring; Strategy
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Strategies for Value Creation (MBA Course)

By: Benjamin C. Esty
SVC is a capstone course that integrates topics from finance, strategy, and leadership. It is intentionally cross-functional and designed to force integration at the end  of the MBA program.  Students develop a value creation mindset and learn that value creation is an... View Details
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Strategy Execution

By: Dennis Campbell

This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:

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Strategy, Governance and Valuation

By: Krishna G. Palepu
Professor Palepu's current research focuses on strategy and governance. In the area of strategy, his recent focus has been on the globalization of emerging markets, particularly India and China, and the resulting opportunities and challenges for western multinationals... View Details
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Sustainability, Real Estate and the Built Environment

By: John D. Macomber

Research interests include:

  • Real estate development, design, and construction, notably how design creates value; 
  • Sustainable cities, in particular entrepreneurship and project finance in light of global trends in urbanization and resource... View Details
Keywords: Infrastructure Finance; Sustainability; Urban Development; City Growth
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The Entrepreneurial Manager

By: Martin A. Sinozich

This course addresses the issues faced by managers who wish to turn opportunity into viable organizations that create value, and empowers students to develop their own approaches, guidelines, and skills for being entrepreneurial managers.

The course teaches... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Financing; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Mindset; Entrepreneurial Journey
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The Rise of Remote Work: Evidence on Productivity and Preferences from Firm and Worker Surveys

By: Alexander Bartik, Zoë Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton
Drawing on surveys of small business owners and employees, we present three main findings about the evolution of remote work after the onset of COVID-19. First, uptake of remote work was abrupt and widespread in jobs suitable for telework according to the task-based... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Remote Work; Health Pandemics; Jobs and Positions; Demographics; Surveys
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The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

By: Karen Mills

Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation’s private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in... View Details

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The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation

By: Karen Mills
Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details
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The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

By: David S. Scharfstein and Antonio Falato
We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details
Keywords: Stock Market; Financial Markets; Business Earnings; Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty
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Weak Credit Covenants

By: Victoria Ivashina and Boris Vallée
Using novel data on 1,240 credit agreements, we investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market. While negative covenants are widespread, carve-out and deductible clauses that qualify them are as frequent. We propose simple and comprehensive... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Loans; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Carve-out; Creditor Governance; LBO; Credit; Agreements and Arrangements; Leveraged Buyouts
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