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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge
Business School Professor Victoria Ivashina looks at the digital platform’s “quest” to expand access to PE funds from pensions and endowments to high-net-worth individuals and even less wealthy “retail investors.” There is the desire by the alternative industry to... View Details
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
positive externalities for the host country? The evidence so far is mixed varying from beneficial to detrimental effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth, with many studies that find no effect. In order to provide an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Mills considers the complexities of a school administrator’s job, she says it’s not enough to be just a great manager or instructional leader. “You have to be able to marry the two because you can’t have one without the other and truly View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same. This View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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organizational leadership effectiveness across multiple industries and geographies Prior to coaching, Sarah worked at Polaris Venture Partners on the start-up of a new venture with two internationally recognized scientists from MIT. At... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
the fact that ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative illness that to date has no cure, Kremer vowed to continue his studies at HBS, far from his network of family and friends in... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
of Economic Research, Pons and Gethin say “protests generate substantial internet activity but have limited effects on political attitudes.” One exception: Black Lives Matter The Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd’s... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
Value Assessment, and sustainability data from the Vigeo Sustainable Country Ratings. These were matched with the company's official language and strong/weak orientation toward the future, and several moderating variables. Marquis and his... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
five-point scale about how much they could rely on those partners to complete tasks effectively (in order to measure cognitive trust), and how much the partners shared the same goals and feelings (in order to measure affective trust).... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
retaliation just with provisions that say you are not allowed to retaliate. Ultimately, the most effective way to protect whistleblowers is to compensate them financially for the costs they incur. We also found that cash-for-information... View Details
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
spectrum, self-correcting to neutral bias only after hundreds if not thousands of revisions over long periods of time. Their paper, still in development, is titled Does Collective Intelligence Create More Biases Than Experts? Evidence From Wikipedia and Britannica.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
book deals with two of the biggest problems in business: Why do sane, smart leaders often refuse to accept the facts that threaten their companies? And how do they find the courage to resist denial when facing new trends, changing markets, and tough new competitors?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
pour more water into it, but it just doesn’t matter.” Jameson focused on using newly available data about individual voters to predict who would be likeliest to respond to a call, but not merely because it would help his clients win. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
"blockbusters" will disappear. Recent developments suggest that doctors will eventually be able to treat patients more effectively with medicine tailored to their genetic makeup, including, in some cases, gene replacement therapies. "The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
surveyed projected they could continue paying premiums for six or more months. Researchers used data from a survey conducted by Alignable, a North American online business networking platform. Of the 9,043... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “The industry is hard. You need tons of money to get started. Almost all restaurants go broke after... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
Edelman, Benjamin, and Stephen M. Ryan Abstract—Every device connected to the global Internet needs a numeric identifier, an "Internet Protocol" address ("IP address"). The Internet's continued growth presents a challenge: most IP addresses have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne