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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Class of '97 Placement Statistics Similar for September and January Cohorts

& Media 4% Investment Management 4% Health Care 3% Consumer Products 3% Other Services 12% Other Manufacturing 3% Employment by Company Size (number of employees)** 10,001 22% * 883 students graduated in the Class of 1997, with 607 in the... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

At Harvard Business School, 42% of the MBA Class of 2019 are women, and the Women’s Student Association (WSA) is the largest club on campus. Women can face unique challenges in the workplace, and we often... View Details

    The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

    Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through... View Details
    • 20 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

    Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good and the 2009 Harvard Business Review article "Mergers That Stick." Investment bankers View Details
    Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
    • 09 Jan 2014
    • News

    Tapping into Opportunity

    of some nebulous wish to do good, however. She's doing it because being smart about water will save these organizations a lot of money. "Providing dramatic improvements in how much water we use, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
    • 06 Jun 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

    Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services
    • 2009
    • Book

    Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950

    By: Aldo Musacchio
    In Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil
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    • January 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (A), (B) and (C)

    By: Nava Ashraf and Kristin Johnson
    Keywords: Saving; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Success; Performance Evaluation; Philippines
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    • 17 Sep 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

    he quickly announced a major strategic shift toward cloud services and invested in internal communication, including hiring a new communications director. Sadun says all new leaders can take steps to... View Details
    Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

    By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
    In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure... View Details
    Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Balance and Stability; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Society; Economics; Banking Industry; Mexico
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    A Preliminary Framework for Product Impact-Weighted Accounts

    By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
    While there has been significant progress in the measurement of an organization’s environmental and social impacts from its operations, metrics to evaluate the impact of products once they come to market lag far behind. In this paper, we provide a framework for... View Details
    Keywords: Social Impact; Product Life Cycle; Environment; Sustainability; Measurement; Metrics; Impact Investing; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Reporting; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Financial Statements
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    • Web

    Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

    Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine Public Health Women's Health 25 Jan 2023 Women, Work, View Details
    • 25 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

    Editor's note. Argentina is in the midst of a continuing saga regarding its 2002 default on its sovereign debt, a case that the US Supreme Court will decide soon. HBS finance professor Laura Alfaro, who served from 2010 to 2012 as Minister of National Planning View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
    • 2022
    • Book

    Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

    By: George Serafeim
    The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

    We not only... View Details
    Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • 17 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry

    Keywords: by Karl A. Muller III, Edward J. Riedl & Thorsten Sellhorn; Construction; Real Estate
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Estimating the Roles of Beliefs and Risk Preferences

    By: Mark Egan, Alexander MacKay and Hanbin Yang
    We present an empirical model of portfolio choice that allows for the nonparametric estimation of investors' (subjective) expectations and risk preferences. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset of 401(k) plans from 2009 through 2019, we explore heterogeneity in asset... View Details
    Keywords: Stock Market Expectations; Demand Estimation; Retirement Planning; Defined Contribution Retirement Plan; 401 (K); Finance; Investment Portfolio; Investment; Retirement; Behavioral Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • April 2011
    • Article

    Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
    We describe the pension plan features of the states and the largest cities and counties in the U.S. Unlike in the private sector, defined benefit (DB) pensions are still the norm in the public sector. However, a few jurisdictions have shifted towards defined... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Public Sector; Retirement; Private Sector; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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    • 09 Feb 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Developing Novel Drugs

    Keywords: by Joshua Krieger, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou; Pharmaceutical
    • 2009
    • Chapter

    Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

    By: Andrew A. King and Michael W. Toffel
    Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental... View Details
    Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage
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    • 01 Oct 2018
    • Blog Post

    Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

    immediately understood and added value to a number of deals,” says Alastair. “But the single biggest value he brought? He was excited by our mission. He’s done everything from M&A analysis to support for your growth strategy, to... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care