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- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
recent academic papers have found that hedge funds generate returns of over 5 percent on announcement of their involvement, suggesting that investors believe these funds will increase the value of the firms they target. In a new View Details
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Personal wealth: statistics
Where can I find statistics and information on the wealthy? Wealth and Asset Ownership data from the Census Bureau. Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse. Find the most recent as well as earlier data. World Wealth Report by Capgemini. (free registration... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tomiwa Igun
I want to light up West Africa! Dark nights, paper fans, candlelight, kerosene lanterns, and aching backs from fetching well water — seems like medieval times! But these were the days of my youth growing up in Nigeria's most vibrant city,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture
sketching them out within the space limitations of a fouror five-inch square. With a library of hundreds of digital napkins and counting—along with short videos, actual paper napkins, and a book to come later this year—Napkin Finance is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
Kazakhstan at 3.62 percent. Beyond monetary or fiscal policy changes themselves, students were struck by where the actual dollars were spent and how that differed from nation to nation, says Tannya Cai, who coauthored a working paper on... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- October 2022
- Supplement
The SAH Group: The Time is Right, Instructor Spreadsheet
By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar
In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, CEO of the SAH Group, was preparing to present the company’s future growth plans to its board of directors. The Tunisian company was a leading producer and distributor of personal care and packaged hygiene products. In 2019, it expanded... View Details
Keywords: Growth Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Decisions; Growth Management; Vertical Integration; Distribution; Competition; Strategy; Supply Chain; Presentations; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Tunisia
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Deals - Course Catalog
Wednesdays during the entirety of class time. Paper Enrollment: Limited to 42 HBS and 42 HLS students Overview: This advanced negotiation course examines complex corporate deals. Many of the class sessions will be structured around actual... View Details
- Web
Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Crucibles of Crisis Leadership Course Number 1529 Baker Foundation Professor Nancy Koehn Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 sessions Paper Overview: This course focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders, their teams, and... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
They began their research by searching through every patent filed by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office between 1977 and 2010. (They detail their findings in the working paper Codifying Prior Art and... View Details
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Harvard Business School
early development and the growth of the Annual Career/Alumni Conference (now known as the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference). Andrew F. Brimmer Papers, 1994–2014 Andrew F. Brimmer was one of the nation's leading authorities on economics. His View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
of real-world systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-059.pdf Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper studies quality choice in a model where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Stacey A. Lawson (MBA '96) came to HBS with an idea brewing. The former IBM engineer wondered why there were no digital libraries for users of computer-aided design (CAD). Despite the pervasiveness of technology throughout industry, she observed many engineers still... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
A Change of Life
about solving problems.” But now, he said, his wife reminds him that “helping children read, that's solving a problem and winning, too.” Is Waldron's move, the Times wondered, indicative of a growing interest on the part of private-sector executives in nonprofit... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
That's the question that professor George Serafeim set out to answer with the working paper The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting. Coauthored with London Business School's Ioannis Ioannou (PhDBE '09), the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
valuation of the startup by 17.1%-22.0%. April 2015 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
increasingly important tool in the online retailer's marketing arsenal, but profit is lost when not done right. Research Papers Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets... View Details
Robert L. Vann
Under Vann’s leadership, the Courier became the essential, and the only, newspaper that reported news and provided a positive showcasing of Pittsburgh’s growing black community. The paper became a very active political and community... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Trek Talk
due north and landed in Stockholm, where they made headlines in the local paper after spending their days learning about high-tech opportunities and visiting Ericsson. Meanwhile, several hundred of their classmates were in Silicon Valley... View Details
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Jen Porter
bunks, of those same men dropped at remote bus stations with $20 and nowhere to go. Isn’t this America, land of opportunity? Unable to stand the sedentary academic discourse, I leapt from my barstool, grabbed a scrap of white paper and a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Life of Ted
Today liked it so much the paper named it one of the best business books of 2008. “Ted has really lived ten lifetimes,” Burke said. “He just turned 70, and I can say he hasn’t slowed down at all. I would fly to his plantations to do... View Details