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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
connections between strategic decisions and impacts on financial metrics, including amortization changes and capital investments 8-10 hrs Module 2 Assessing Strategy Execution Use financial ratio analysis to identify corporate... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
organizer and HBSAB board member Radha Bennett (MBA 2014), adding that only about 2 percent of VC funding goes to women founders. That doesn’t mean they won’t find VCs to back them, just that they might have to pitch their ideas to many... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
microfinance is helping to reduce Bangladesh's poverty levels by 2 percent a year. Paying The Way With Microfinance Michael Chu, a private-equity specialist at KKR before joining ACCION International, was instrumental in spreading... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
question was, do we get out of it or increase our stake? In view of the long-term trends that we are seeing, generics is a field that is here to stay. And if we want to be in that field, we need to be able to compete with the best. The... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
day it seems in different ways. Facebook becomes an example, good, bad or indifferent, about what people can learn about their responsibility as business leaders. George: I led off the class yesterday asking the question, "If they've got over View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
Joan E. Ricart Publication:Management Research 8, no. 2 (2010) Abstract The purpose of this paper is to reflect on competitiveness by using the business model concept and to understand the need to adapt business models to changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happened—catalytically—in the science of happiness. You’ve been deep in this topic for almost two decades. How have you seen the field evolve and change? It’s become a lot more cognitive and brain-scientific. Neuroscience is a relatively... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
jet-powered airliners. The growing requirement for more factory space was fueled by new models and a surging worldwide demand for air travel. Massive construction projects were launched, including a new factory on 760 acres at Paine Field... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
rediscovering experiences from the past will be curiosity provoking and interesting in the future. In Studies 2 and 3, we find that people are particularly likely to underestimate the pleasure of rediscovering ordinary, mundane... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Schumpeter's point is admittedly difficult to sell in the "sound-bite" culture of our political debates, but that's why it is so important. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am currently working on a book about Renaissance economics and its legacy. In all... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
redesign? The predictable, responsive, and lower-cost care today's health-care leaders—and patients—seek. Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi Author:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Geopolitics 14, no. 2 (April 2009): 317-327 Abstract By the turn of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
Business School Centennial Colloquium, this edited volume brings together the most important scholars from fields as diverse as psychology, sociology, economics, and history to shape the academic discipline of leadership. Book: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Reserved. Field Course: Field X Course Number 6333 Senior Lecturer Randolph Cohen Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Weekly, 2 hour sessions Project Enrollment: Limited to 80 students... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
charge the members for successful transactions. In choosing between the two options he has to consider other upstart networks, particularly in the field of mobile social networking. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Many managers interpret Reg FD subjectively, often relying on individual industry norms to decide where to draw the line. Ultimately, the ambiguity of Reg FD leads to considerable variation in the information managers privately provide to investors, undermining the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
writing some 75 comments have been submitted. Finally, I thought you would be interested in learning the most popular WK articles since we set up shop. You can see the results here. Thank you to our more than 2 million annual visitors who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
booth is a differentiator—something to keep the slow creep of the chain stores at bay. She also earns money directly from the booth, collecting half of the 30-cent user fee. (The other half goes to Barared.) All told, Reyes says the booth makes her 1,000 pesos a week,... View Details