Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

2012
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The Cost and Timing of Financial Distress

By: Christopher Parsons

Assessments of the trade-off theory have typically compared the present value of tax benefits to the present value of bankruptcy costs. We verify that this comparison overwhelmingly favors tax benefits, suggesting that firms are under-leveraged. However, when we... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy

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August 2001
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Work Methods Design: Note on Time Standards

By: H. Kent Bowen

Looks at production design. Helps students observe and work with procedures and consider cost reduction ideas using a view of methods improvement. View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Production; Performance Improvement; Perspective

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October 2001
Article

Time-out: Taking Time to Integrate Temporal Research

By: Deborah Ancona, Gerardo Okhuyson and Leslie Perlow

Keywords: Research

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12 Nov 2014
News

Time to Restart Small, Medium Bank M&A

15 Sep 2008
News

On-Rampers: Time to Head Back to School?

30 Aug 2022
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How to Reclaim Your Time and Happiness

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of new technologies that I don’t... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Mar 2016
News

Time for a shake-up at United Airlines

24 Apr 2020

Applying to Business School in Tumultuous Times

Are you considering applying to graduate business school but wonder whether now is the right time? Are you unsure how to prepare a compelling business school application in a disrupted environment? Join the makers of the GMAT exam for a webinar addressing these and... View Details

Aug 21 2017
Testimonial

Taking Time to Recharge, Reflect, and Grow

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

At the end of March, I will retire from my role as Director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and turn the reins to BEI’s new Director Lynn Schenk and Coordinator Elise Clarkson. What has changed since I started in the Director role in 2016? HBS faculty... View Details

28 Jan 2021
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Advice for Putting Bad Times in Perspective

30 Mar 2018
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

“Academic achievement opens opportunities for success, but you can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says John Majors (MBA 2000). “The reality is that some employers and educators automatically lower their expectations when... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

Beth Thoren (MBA 1992) was a teenager in Japan the first time she saw the ocean. “I thought it was the most beautiful and fragile thing I’d ever seen,” she recalls. The experience sparked a lifelong interest in the natural world and led... View Details

Keywords: April White

October 2024
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On Why Women-owned Businesses Take More Time to Secure Microloans

By: Goran Calic, Moren Lévesque and Anton Shevchenko

Examining gender differences in business financing reveals important dimensions on which women- and men-owned businesses differ. Although considerable progress has been made in understanding gender differences in mobilizing resources, the role of time in business... View Details

Keywords: Microfinance; Gender; Financing and Loans; Equality and Inequality; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship

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Second Quarter 2024
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Venture Capital in a Time of Turmoil

By: Josh Lerner

One area of consensus among academic economists and policymakers is the need for greater innovation. This concern is rooted in worries about the lagging rate of productivity growth in many Western nations. In the U.S., for instance, the productivity growth rate... View Details

Keywords: Productivity Growth; Economic Growth; Innovation and Invention; United States; Europe

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June 2022
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The SAH Group: The Time is Right

By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar

In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, cofounder and 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,... View Details