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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

two drugs to market. Jim was the founding chief executive of Theravance, Inc. His investment experience includes being a co-founder of Prospect Ventures and, earlier in his career, a partner of Sierra... View Details
  • May 2007
  • Article

Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Investment; Policy; Corporate Finance
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    Mihir A. Desai

    Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy Across Races: Evidence from the U.S. Credit Register

    By: Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia and Camelia Minoiu
    We examine the consequences of monetary policy on racial disparities, focusing on the role of bank lending to firms through collateral and selection channels. Leveraging comprehensive loan-level data from the U.S. credit register (Y-14Q) of the Federal Reserve, we show... View Details
    Keywords: Monetary Policy Transmission; Inequity; Credit Registry; Wealth; Collateral Channel; Selection; Racial Disparity; Racial Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Banks and Banking; Credit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; United States
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    • January 2019 (Revised December 2020)
    • Case

    Angola Starts Now

    By: Jeremy Friedman and Sophus A. Reinert
    After five centuries of colonialism, four decades of civil war, an extended experiment with Marxism-Leninism, and nearly four decades of rule by a single man, José Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola finally has a chance to realize its enormous economic potential. A country... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Government and Politics; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Issues; Angola
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    • 25 Oct 2010
    • HBS Case

    Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

    its US management ranks mostly with British expats instead of hiring locally. How did that strategy work for them? What can we all learn? A: Tesco established Fresh & Easy as a greenfield investment rather than acquiring or joint... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 15 Aug 2024
    • Blog Post

    Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)

    Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I graduated from Harvard Business School at the tail end of the dot-com bubble and was fortunate to join Goldman Sach’s high-tech View Details
    • Program

    Creating Brand Value

    Expand your brand's profitably Develop an effective brand portfolio strategy Manage brand risk Leverage a brand as a significant corporate asset Determine the value of a brand Invest in brands and evaluate the ROI of branding Build... View Details
    • Career Coach

    Vincent Dessain

    Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for... View Details
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    The Importance of Being Causal

    By: Iavor I Bojinov, Albert Chen and Min Liu
    Causal inference is the study of how actions, interventions, or treatments affect outcomes of interest. The methods that have received the lion’s share of attention in the data science literature for establishing causation are variations of randomized experiments.... View Details
    Keywords: Causal Inference; Observational Studies; Cross-sectional Studies; Panel Studies; Interrupted Time-series; Instrumental Variables
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    Reunions - Alumni

    Class of 1961 - 65th Reunion Class of 1956 - 70th Reunion 11–14 Jun 2026 HBS Campus HBS Alumni Class of 2021 - 5th Reunion Class of 2016 - 10th Reunion Class of 2011 - 15th Reunion Executive Education Reunion Resources Frequently Asked Questions Find more information... View Details
    • 02 Sep 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

    What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
    • 14 Nov 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: November 14, 2006

      Working PapersThe Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community Authors:Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards Abstract In this paper, we examine the motivations of large information technology... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jul 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

    exactly like fire insurance. On any given day, you won't see any benefit. In fact, you could go years shelling out money for a service you aren't using. But on the day that, heaven forbid, your house does burn down, then you will definitely be glad you View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
    • 11 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

    admitted students incredible flexibility to explore their interests and talents between undergraduate and business school. I decided to explore multiple jobs between undergraduate and business school to gain a breadth of experience across... View Details
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    Liuna Fekravar

    Liuna began her career in investment banking, working at Credit Suisse’s Houston and London offices. Post-banking, she spent three years with an Egyptian family office focusing on PE-style investment across... View Details
    • 17 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

    As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in... View Details
    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
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    Jon Puz

    Jon (HBS ’08) draws on his healthcare, technology and entrepreneurship experiences to help students and alumni. As an entrepreneur and executive, Jon has served in leadership roles with companies ranging from early stage to those with... View Details
    • 14 Oct 2020
    • Blog Post

    Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

    charged. Now the good news: After going through the full-time MBA program at HBS (even with the Coronavirus disruption and finishing my last quarter on-line), I don’t think I could put a price on the education and experiences I received.... View Details
    • 21 Aug 2019
    • Blog Post

    Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

    companies and is taken by most of the class who plan on working in or investing in tech. The final project for the course involves picking a growth stage company and doing a deep dive into a critical growth issue the company is facing. On... View Details