New England - Publications - Faculty & Research

2013
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NBC and the 2012 London Olympics: Unexpected Success

"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as much..." wrote Richard Sandomir in The New York Times. "NBC... View Details

Keywords: Success; Profit; Sports; Failure; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Vancouver; Beijing; London; Brazil; Russia

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30 Jun 2015
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directors. Controlling for these effects and other ratings determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have higher subsequent citations in corruption news events. They also report higher future sales growth and show a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Amos Hostetter, Jr.

cable subscriber base of over 4 million (third largest in the US) and pioneered the launch of regional cable news channels in New England and Chicago. Hostetter sold his... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

24 May 2011
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responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1998
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Faculty Retirements

Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. For twelve years, he was chairman of the Finance Advisory Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He now serves on the boards of Swarthmore College, the New View Details

01 Oct 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

The September cohort of the Class of 1998 has arrived on campus, and with the new academic year starts a fresh term for the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since the Board represents over 60,000 HBS alumni, I thought it would be appropriate to... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

notes Cahill. Among the clubs that support nonprofits, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England and the HBS Club of Philadelphia have hosted nonprofit conferences for several years. These conferences... View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

01 Dec 2006
News

HBS Honors Four Alumni

former chairman of London-based Apax Partners, one of the world’s leading venture-capital and private-equity firms, Ronnie Cohen and his parents emigrated, with virtually no possessions, to England from Egypt in 1956. Often said to be the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2004
News

Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform

68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, New Jersey, garden... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; archaeology; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?Ntt=9781111972301&N=16+4294922453&Ntk=P_Isbn13 Behavioral Corporate Finance: A Current Survey Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:In Handbook of the Economics of Finance. Vol. 2, edited by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

banker, for instance, who authored "A New World for Women" in 1936, concluded, "It is inevitable that more and more women will occupy places of responsibility in our country's banks." Indeed, the Bulletin provides a window on the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Clubs News Clubs News With more than $300,000 in cash and prizes on the line, 12 finalist teams pitched their hearts out at the 21st Annual New Venture Competition on April 18.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

Clayton Christensen. This new category of aircraft, developed out of research done in the mid-1990s by NASA and aircraft-engine manufacturers, tied in well with government-funded efforts to decrease congestion at major hubs by encouraging... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

29 Mar 2023
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Robert Kraft Launches Campaign to Combat Antisemitism

Photo courtesy New England Patriots Photo courtesy New England Patriots New England... View Details

07 Dec 2015
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Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship wasn’t exactly a household word... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Sep 2010
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School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates

School. The day’s principal speaker was Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), a widely recognized father of the European venture capital industry who now devotes his time to social enterprise in England and the Middle East. Cohen (center), chairman... View Details

Keywords: Graduation

02 Apr 2020
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Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China

Courtesy New England Patriots In his daily press conferences in March, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had been growing increasingly frustrated by the state’s shortage of N95 respiratory masks that help... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform

quality of care. Traditionally, doctors and hospitals have been paid separate fees for their services, an approach widely criticized for rewarding overuse of diagnostic tests and procedures while providing no incentives to integrate care. Working with View Details

Keywords: bundling; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2007
News

Ali Allawi

Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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