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- 2010
- Working Paper
Law and Finance c. 1900
By: Aldo Musacchio
How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world... View Details
Musacchio, Aldo. "Law and Finance c. 1900." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16216, July 2010.
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
of areas—business professionals, software developers, data scientists, and such—share ideas, build teams, develop and test concepts and business plans, and finally pitch their prototypes to industry experts and venture capitalists. And... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Research Summary
Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success
By: Karen Mills
Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details
- 2021
- Chapter
Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success
By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Fintech; Artificial Intelligence; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Capital; Success; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science
Mills, Karen G., and Annie Dang. "Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success." In Big Data in Small Business, edited by Carsten Lund Pedersen, Adam Lindgreen, Thomas Ritter, and Torsten Ringberg. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
my breakup, I resorted to the love and support of my family, only to realize that the people who are important in my life, like my dad, did not know truly me. This was not a product View Details
- Web
Academics - Health Care
span the many sectors of the health care industry. During the second-year "elective curriculum" (EC), students may choose courses and field-based research specific to their particular health care interests.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
pursue initially are lifelong learning for alumni, supporting a digital research infrastructure, and expanding the reach and impact of our ideas, courses, and cases. If we do these well, we’ll be able to... View Details
- Web
Europe - Global
Ricard: Uncorking Digital Transformation,” supported by Nikolina Jönsson and Emer Moloney of the Europe Research Center. The case dives into the challenges of aligning digital... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub
By: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert and Maria P. Roche
We study the engagement of nascent firms with open source communities and its implications for innovation and attracting funding. To do so, we link data on 160,065 U.S. startups from Crunchbase to their activities on the open source software development platform... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Knowledge; Open Source Communities; GitHub; Machine Learning; Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Information Technology; Strategy
Conti, Annamaria, Christian Peukert, and Maria P. Roche. "Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online, December 17, 2024.)
- October 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 6: Evaluating Strategic Profit Performance
By: Robert Simons
This module reading demonstrates how to calculate and analyze the profit generated by different business strategies. Formulas and examples are provided to calculate profit generated by changes in market share, revenue growth, efficiency improvements, and support costs.... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Evaluating Business Performance; Profitability Analysis; Variance Analysis; Measuring Effectiveness; Measuring Efficiency; Activity-Based Costing; Flexible Budget; Accounting; Strategy
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 6: Evaluating Strategic Profit Performance." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-106, October 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- 14 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America
Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
of tuition and course fees for the approximately 10 percent of students with the greatest financial need. The School also began offering scholarship support to more students... View Details
- Web
How to Apply | Predoctoral Researchers
position. Culture of Inclusion Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to increasing the representation of underrepresented minorities in academic research. Research Staff Services seeks to View Details
- Web
Research - Global
Robotics opted to pursue a business-to-government contract with the New York State Office of the Aging, and put direct-to-consumer efforts on the back burner, it was at a crossroads. The partnership had been successful, and the company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
no closer to addressing the underlying causes of systemic racism. Two months ago, a mob of supporters of former President Donald J. Trump stormed... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship
your application. Complete the online application and upload supporting materials (see below) prior to the deadline of April 9, 2025, at noon ET. Important : Compile all your answers and documents prior to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
learning with and supporting each other in the pursuit of a life well lived,” says Perlow. “We’ve come to understand that you can’t teach crafting your life in a semester; it’s a lifelong journey.” What... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
Offices may look just as they did in March 2020, but many companies attempting to welcome workers back are finding that the rules of engagement have changed. For many employees, the sweet freedom of remote... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- March 2025
- Article
Is Personal Identity Intransitive?
By: J. De Freitas and L. J. Rips
There has been a call for a potentially revolutionary change to our existing understanding of the psychological concept of personal identity. Apparently, people can psychologically represent people, including themselves, as multiple individuals at the same time. Here... View Details
De Freitas, J., and L. J. Rips. "Is Personal Identity Intransitive?" Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154, no. 3 (March 2025): 775–786.
- November 2019
- Case
The Boss Has the Wrong Idea: Confidential Role Material for Lee Clancy
By: Katherine Coffman, Kathleen McGinn, Judith A. Clair and Katherine Chen
“The Boss Has the Wrong Idea” is a two-person conversation exercise in which an MBA student seeks advice from a mentor in her field about how to handle an incident of workplace sexual harassment. The case consists of two confidential role materials: a role for the... View Details
Coffman, Katherine, Kathleen McGinn, Judith A. Clair, and Katherine Chen. "The Boss Has the Wrong Idea: Confidential Role Material for Lee Clancy." Harvard Business School Case 920-024, November 2019.