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  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

course, How Star Women Succeed: Leading Effective Careers and Organizations. "There is a big difference between diversity and inclusiveness," Groysberg says. "Diversity is about counting the numbers; inclusiveness is about making the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-146.pdf CEO and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

Commodity Trading Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen StorliHarvard Business School Case 813-020 Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

tend to focus on “ghost towns” on the one hand or urbanization as China’s silver bullet to growth and reform on the other. In this paper, we detail what China calls its “New Urbanization Policy.” While these plans aim to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

Putin and the Russian Oligarchs This case examines the career of the Russian business oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky was one of a small group of business tycoons that became fabulously rich after the collapse of the Soviet Union in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out his strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

former students bring these ideas into their careers in various industries ranging from tech to consulting to finance. We’ve also had students go on to work at BIT and other organizations focused on bringing behavioral economics directly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

growth was one of the biggest stories in e-commerce, especially when the retailer attracted $50 million in investment from Index Ventures, a top VC firm that funded other successful retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Etsy, in 2013. Yet, with a cash infusion, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) after a successful six-month collaboration or continue with Adnexus' planned IPO. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609015 Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2017
  • Case

Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details
Keywords: Roll Up; Private Equity Roll Up; Aggregates; Aggregates Materials; Construction Materials; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Growth and Maturation; Engineering; Construction; Finance; Capital; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Investment; Housing; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Construction Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

Marshall Plan for Africa. This would require government expenditures. But there's also a tremendous opportunity to match the activities of philanthropists-I know many of our HBS alums are very generous and would love to get involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

were active in providing courses and sometimes certification for suppliers, and they would often work with customers to help them run their businesses effectively, including giving them planning and project management tools. All three... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Who Will Call the Shots in Stakeholder Capitalism? At one time in my checkered academic career I studied, researched, and published papers about interorganizational management. Specifically, I was interested in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

3,100 employees were displaced. Company president Aaron Feuerstein immediately announced plans to rebuild the company—and to keep all the displaced employees on the payroll in the meantime. The media hailed him as a mensch. But in making... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks, and Build an Incredible Career Keeping a Diary to Catalyze Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa, Steven Kramer, and Ela Ben-Ur Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

as possible enter and graduate from college, expanding the list of acceptable partners might make sense. But CEO Deborah Bial believed that selective colleges provided Posse scholars with more than just superior career opportunities—they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

burn cash faster than they make it. But already successful pioneers such as eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo! have transformed industry dynamics, opened new career aspirations, and become emblematic of a new workplace style. The wanna-dots are... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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