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- 2008
- Working Paper
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
- 2006
- Other Unpublished Work
Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry
By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson
Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
objective. Combining the two banks created opportunities to eliminate overlaps in such areas as back-office staff, branch offices, and computing infrastructure. Management of both banks also believed that larger and more diversified... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- Web
Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
were worth. “Lehman had broken two basic investment rules: it bought at the top of the market and it failed to diversify its bets,” Mark T. Williams writes in Uncontrolled Risk . “Commercial real estate became a millstone around Lehman’s... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
find these companies more easily. In addition, says Lerner, there should be an effort to compile the experiences of asset-owners (such as endowments and pensions) to capture best practices. Those might include lessons on how these capital sources have View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
Island. No lawyers or investment bankers," Wendel smiles. By leveraging its strengths in engineering and marketing, cutting costs to the bone, and using its improved cash flow to streamline manufacturing and develop new and diversified... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
into the fabric of normal, ongoing organization financial management (it) buys time to figure out what is happening and what it means to the organization.” Jacob Navon suggested, “Perhaps corporate thinking going forward will shift to emphasize resiliency versus cost... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets
indicate about the respective market environments? How did business leaders in India, Chile and the Gulf respond to the liberalization of regulation in their respective countries? What challenges did liberalization present, and what opportunities did it provide? Why... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
management and digital marketing tools for entertainment venues and sports teams (largely unused during the pandemic), switched to targeting small- and medium-sized traditional businesses struggling to survive. Fourth Quadrant: Firms View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
and Kit - 12. Daphne Dufresne (MBA 1999), RLJ Equity Partners Daphne Dufresne is a Principal at Weston Presidio Capital, a diversified venture capital firm with over $2.3 billion in assets under management. With offices in San Francisco,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
candidates to become major producers. They were consequently well positioned to diversify into production. A third determinant was the further expansion of imperial frontiers. In Asia, British political influence was extended over the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
company public again through an IPO, 2) set out for greater global expansion, 3) combine with another coffee business to become a larger player in North American coffee, and 4) diversify beyond coffee through a “pure play beverage”... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
there's five or six military bases around here. But I would love to diversify our economy. We've sort of been coasting along with the shipyard being here for a long time. I would love to bring in new businesses and new opportunities for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
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Events - Business History
Nov 2017 Business History Seminar Politics, Institutions, and Diversified Business Groups: Comparisons across Developed Countries Ben Schneider, MIT Oct 30 30 Oct 2017 Business History Seminar Decoding the Balance Sheet: Material Objects,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
However, there was substantial variation among academic departments. That finding suggests that there was not yet a systematic effort to diversify case protagonists. With that insight in mind, we delved into faculty characteristics. Were... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
came to serve as a major source of short-term financing. In 1958, the investment house launched the One William Street Fund, a mutual fund of diversified holdings funded by shareholders. Expanding their global reach in the 1960s, Lehman... View Details
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
promoted women and people of color. The diversifying effect was not as pronounced in mergers that involved companies from different industries. "The disruption allows these patterns to be changed for the better." As part of his study,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
grow as a person and a leader. I wanted to develop a new skill set and garner new insights to make me a more effective and diversified instructor for the cadets I will teach at USMA. What do you think helped you stand out during the... View Details