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- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
in our country and wanted to leverage our abilities to work towards solutions. What started as purely grassroots networking with peers has led to thousands of followers on Instagram, over 175 people committing to be poll workers, many... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes, we show that this prediction holds well. Payout taxes have a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
significantly impact a student’s grade. Additionally, as absences significantly impact the ability of the team to function effectively, they may also be reflected in peer feedback which, when applicable depending on course structure, is... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
a reasonable request and deliver it with a smile, hopefully you can keep the other person in the room and see what happens next." Mohan—former managing director and now senior advisor of $15 billion VC and private equity firm Summit... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
the heritage my father left us," says Bertarelli, who has led the Ares-Serono Group, already strong, to even greater heights. During the last five years he has formed a management executive committee and reorganized the firm "to prepare... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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2025 Q4 1.5 Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms Finance Jason Pananos Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Venture Capital Journey Entrepreneurial Management Jeffrey Bussgang Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Financial Management of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
consulting firm used to be as good as it gets: a six-figure starting salary, a $30,000 signing bonus, a pledge to pay some or all of their B-school tuition — which amounts to more than $50,000.” But, times had changed. Students were... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
trying to impress his/her peers and just confuses the customer." Mark Altobello offered an interesting theory: "We try to make the software so flexible to reduce the cost of future changes. But I think we therefore omit the idea... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
to parallel play by preschoolers, entrepreneurs engaged in parallel play interweave action, cognition, and timing to accelerate learning about a novel world. Specifically, they (1) borrow from peers and focus on established substitutes;... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
included presentations by Shelley Correll (Stanford University), Pamela Stone (CUNY), and Irene Padavic (Florida State University) and conference cochair Robin Ely. Padavic and Ely discussed why work/family initiatives have failed to advance women executives, using the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
frustrating to find the Chamber at odds with us in this effort." Despite taking such a bold measure against the powerful Chamber, Apple ranks far below its industry peers in the Green Rankings produced by Newsweek, the second largest... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
David A. Frankel
his wife, “I need a total change and this HBS thing is unfinished business.” He packed up, flew to Boston in the fall of 2001 and arrived on campus with the words of his peers echoing in his head. “A lot of people said `You are a lunatic.... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We use case studies to illustrate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when their relative value is higher. Indeed, financial rewards are effective at motivating the poorest agents, and non-financial rewards are more effective... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
firm that partnered with San Luis Rassini when it was a state-owned steel company. Its evolution into a privately owned, global supplier of auto parts is symbolic of how deep Mexico’s transformation has been over the past twenty years.... View Details