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28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

Archie Jones. Jeff Bussgang, Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Glynn Lloyd, and Karen Mills On September 30, Bussgang and Mills presented this case to more than 80 HBS alumni in a virtual panel discussion that explored what the BNVC got right, what it exposed in View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

than when I was president, which is very gratifying.” When his term as president ended in the summer of 2015, Condo took a brief sabbatical before returning to INCAE teach the following year. Despite his love of teaching, he says, “I knew... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a principal and one of the founders of Long Term Capital Management, L.P., a financial technology and proprietary trading firm. He is the author of Continuous-Time Finance... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

to children's furniture and toys. Upon leaving the Commission six years later, Franklin joined the Wharton faculty. However, her public service continued. She served four terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

both arenas.” Having agreed to a five-year term at Yale, Donaldson returned to Wall Street in 1980 to run his own international investment fund. But when the NYSE came calling in 1990, he couldn’t resist another opportunity to upset the... View Details

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

be best performing in terms of annual profitability; membership was considered highly prestigious. We document that index-inclusion incentives led firms to increase return on equity (ROE) proportionally by 35% on average through higher... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

for anybody, but you need to apply to all of these places because all of them are getting in many more applications than quite frankly they need or deserve. Brian: Right, so you've taught this case in class before? Bill: I've taught it this View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

08 May 2019
News

Lessons from the Ashes

and in some strange way I felt like I even let God down. Like I thought he must have wanted me to keep the company in line with the founder or at least in terms of how you treat people, integrity and all. And so it was just a very, very... View Details

02 Oct 2017
News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

thoughts about giving. Campbell: Yes, that was another profound experience. So yes, our church had made a $1,000 investment in 1970 that became a $1.6 million windfall, in 2014. And so the very first thing our church did with that money was to tithe, which in biblical... View Details

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

returns across time horizons exhibit strong return predictability up to three years ahead and produce an aggregate equity term structure that tracks economic conditions. The implied term structure is upward... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

brands to the working conditions of the suppliers who produce their branded products. This has resulted in brands creating supplier codes of conduct, which is the first piece. Then those brands need to actually hold suppliers accountable for meeting these codes, first... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

Alignable’s June survey suggested that PPP applications from minority-owned businesses were twice as likely to be rejected. Mills says that future loans should be simpler, easier to access, and provide more flexible terms to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

is still by far the leading academic research center in Europe in terms of science and technology. ls. A focus on attracting more technologically intensive industries and better connecting the country’s academic institutions with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

is this term an oxymoron?) received attention. To some degree, readers adopted a “user beware” stance. This becomes even more relevant in view of the massive hacking of Yahoo’s email user base that was disclosed after the column was... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

the internet might be a bit more understandable if you take into account what anthropologists have discovered—that internet use inside most homes is “bursty” and “plastic.” In other words, we use little moments of free time, what the researchers View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

in terms of improved patient outcomes. Related Reading: Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care? How Should We Pay for Health Care? Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead? View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

Here’s some bad news and some worse news for women who aspire to the executive suite. The bad news is that there’s a huge gender gap in top corporate positions, both in terms of the number of female executives and how much money they make... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

whether we are entering the next stage in what might be termed an era of neuromanagement. In it, a group of researchers claim to have found that brain structure and the density of cells in the right posterior parietal cortex are... View Details