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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women
before the conference, honoring New England venture capital firms that have made significant investments in women-led firms. HBS professor Myra Hart and Angela Crispi, assistant dean and chief planning... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Understanding Southeast Asia’s New Business Frontier From cosmopolitan Bangkok and Singapore to the Sumatran rainforest, participants in the June 2017 HBS faculty immersion explored the diverse industries of Southeast Asia. “This region... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager It’s not lonely at the top anymore. Today’s CEO has an average of 10 direct reports, according to new research by Associate Professor Julie Wulf, Maria Guadalupe of Columbia Business... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
chains, and speeding communications. The result: "People can spend more time thinking up new products and servicing customers, and less time checking boxes." To get there, most firms must be willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
of patent applications, on facilitating transactions in the market for ideas. Standard-Essential Patents Josh Lerner builds a framework for the analysis of standard-essential patents and suggests a policy reform. Playing Favorites: How View Details
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- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
Sometimes it pays to be nearly invisible. Just ask Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). He heads one of the most successful media and telecommunications investment firms you’ve probably never heard of — Providence Equity Partners. “My own mother... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
companies their firms are issuing securities for—or hope to do business with. The research, "Playing Favorites: Financing Options Sway Analysts' Thinking," was published in the June 2004 edition of Investor Relations Quarterly.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact
impact, build leadership, advance philanthropic effectiveness, and accelerate learning. "You need strategy. You need talent. You need funding. We have evolved to provide an integrated package of those kinds of services," says Bradach, who founded the Boston-based View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
again the presence of a lead firm acting as a knowledge integrator. In this case, the lead company is IKEA's largest European supplier. The firm developed a way to make high-quality curved laminates for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
crossed the American border.HBS Working Knowledge: As you and Lina Gálvez-Muñoz write in the first chapter of your new book, the word "multinational" usually conjures up images of American firms. You have chosen to focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
recounted to the New York Times (March 10, 2002). At the outset of his tenure, for example, Gerstner scoffed at the notion that a new vision needed to be articulated for the company. That would require “a... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
were definitely slow-lane. So when the firm chose not one but two routes to recovery, Porsche caught industry watchers and Porsche enthusiasts by surprise. In addition to launching a new two-seater, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
reportedly took just one day to review 42 other applications before announcing last February it had chosen Romney to be its new head. "Never in a million years had the job occurred to me," says the energetic and upbeat Romney. "But after... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Carroll. “So I went out and met with people and talked to them.” In addition to talking, Carroll listened. With a master’s in geology and 25 years of experience, Carroll was not new to the industry, but her 2007 appointment to the top... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
better-than-average pay. 1993 In response to outrage over executive pay levels, Congress imposes a $1 million cap on tax deductibility of executive compensation, except for performance-based pay. Afterwards, stock option awards explode as a way to tie pay to... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
to interview the men. Shaking up the board selection process has unintended consequences, too— including the joy from the male board member who tells us he can’t believe there are so many qualified female candidates. There is also the glaring comparison between a View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
Brierley Professor of Business Administration. “But even when firms never guarantee that consumers will choose the winner, consumers infer an implicit contract and are upset when that contract is violated.” Norton and John examine the... View Details
Muriel Siebert
been reserved for large commercial clients. Siebert left her business for five years to become the Superintendent of Banks for the state of New York; another first for a woman. Siebert returned to her firm... View Details
Keywords: Finance