Conflicts Of Interest - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

a new study coauthored by Harvard Business School Professor Shai Bernstein. “Attracting high-quality talent is an important challenge for any young firm, and it’s critical to establishing reputation and growth.” “One of the key challenges... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

of others and spotting problem-solving capabilities, you are less confident about asserting your own interests and maximizing your share. Assertive Value-Claimer (10 percent): You are confident about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting

of being able to characterize their income separately depending on the audience. Something as simple as interest expense can be engineered to be an expense for tax authorities and a dividend for capital... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program at HBS. Gupta, whose current academic interests lie in mobile advertising, mobile payments, and mobile commerce, described the difficult... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

these were German firms, interpreters would quickly claim that these represented a particular German tendency to bureaucracy. Prior to 1945, many German firms actually resisted the expense and burden of implementing these innovations in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Science at Harvard (LISH) has a long history of working together with Harvard Catalyst at Harvard Medical School to identify interesting innovation and process problems in translational biomedical areas. We... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

U.S. The more interesting question is, does it matter?” So that’s it for this month. Does it matter if China assumes global trade leadership? What do you think? For once, I’ll disclose a personal bias up front. In the early 1960s, I... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

likely users of the product? Could you provide a scenario or two of how it would be used? A: The model is valuable for professional investors (money managers, financial analysts, hedge fund managers), for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

or an equity mutual fund that holds low-dividend stocks and passes through little in the way of realized capital gains. A high-tax asset might be a standard corporate bond, since the interest payments on a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

campaign outcome. Some students blatantly voice their interests across the bargaining table, while others are more guarded—and they learn through the process of getting to a deal how much information it... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

or wrong. (An increasing interest in behavioral approaches to morality in US social sciences underlines such an individual view of morality.) In my mind, the counter-intuitive pairing View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

the “Infrastructure Paradox.” Investors have an easy explanation for the paradox: a lack of bankable projects. For bankers (admittedly a broad characterization), a “bankable” project has several characteristics: a clear source View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

with a particular frenzy on the venture capital side, which then was followed by a pretty dramatic and ugly collapse," Lerner said. "I think today when we look at the European market, it's clear that there is a lot of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

"I describe the weather and you describe the weather and people dress differently for it," says Parsons by way of analogy. What was most interesting was that the rise and fall seemed to have... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

Companies and government leaders have long tried to recreate the kind of Silicon Valley innovation magic that made Facebook and Google such goldmines. Cities from Cincinnati to Saskatoon have launched startup labs. Companies including... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Dec 2001
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

non-business analogies to business. But one recent book, Judo Strategy, (HBSP,2001), by David Yoffie and Mary Kwak, provides interesting advice on how underpowered upstarts can compete against the sumo giants View Details