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  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Up on the Corner

mothers to achieve. Dlodlo grew up in Cameroon, where her ethnic group, the Bamiléké, are known as traders and businesspeople. Her mother was a bank executive; her father, a civil servant with a passion for real estate. The latter built a sizable View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate
  • 05 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

culture, and a sign that the Zoom life might not turn out to be that bad. Opportunities without Boundaries The Maverick team ensured that the interns had exposure to many different parts of the venture life. This included everything from sourcing to due diligence to... View Details
  • 26 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

culture, and a sign that the Zoom life might not turn out to be that bad. Opportunities without Boundaries The Maverick team ensured that the interns had exposure to many different parts of the venture life. This included everything from sourcing to due diligence to... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network, and perform significantly better on these holdings relative to their non-connected holdings. A View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

States outperformed the rest of the world in the majority of years. As such, there is something particularly bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

America the Difficult

bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance
  • 30 May 2025
  • News

Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte

HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

portfolio managers and we're going to have to leverage our local knowledge with our partners." Cash Not On Hand But financial partners are becoming increasingly difficult to find, particularly after the devaluations of the last... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

deposits and withdrawals. Five were turned into "financial centers," spacious, relaxed outlets where customers would have access to the trained staff and advanced technologies required for sophisticated services such as stock trading and View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services
  • 05 Nov 2024
  • Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “We trained an algorithm to write using... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

motivation (Study 3) and greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior (Study 4). Finally, a field study constructively replicates these effects and demonstrates that individuals who work in more creative positions are also more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Approach." MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. LFE-1027-97 (June 1997). Black, Fischer. "How We Came Up with the Option Formula." Journal of Portfolio Management 15, no. 2 (winter 1989): 4-8. Black, Fischer. "Interest Rates... View Details
  • Blog

Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

working and living. The HBS Executive Education team went into action, and the team's ability to adapt has been wonderful to watch. We changed direction quickly, executing an all-virtual portfolio of programs. We leveraged new... View Details
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

are treated as free agents who can take their top performance to work for the highest bidder. Our study debunks that myth. Star analysts rely a lot on the quality of the colleagues that their organization provides to sustain top performance. They cannot simply View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest institutional holders of corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

held by the mutual fund clients of the analyst's brokerage firm. The optimism in analyst recommendations increases with the weight of the stock in a mutual fund client's portfolio and the commission revenue generated from the mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

also be detrimental to some. Specifically, we examine in detail the relation between religious involvement and subjective well-being. We first replicate prior findings showing a positive relation between religiosity and subjective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

moderation-of-process approach (Spencer, Zanna, & Fong, 2005) to constructively replicate and extend our findings. The paper demonstrates how multiple identities within people can have consequences for performance in tasks that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data available. We first document that firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace