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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

1961 Jennifer Hyman Rent the Runway MBA 2009 Richard H. Jenrette Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette MBA 1957 Thomas Jessiman Hashoff MBA 1991 Franklin P. "Pitch" Johnson, Jr. Asset Management Company MBA 1952 Daven Johnson Ntensify MBA 2011... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

improvement projects. He attended HBS to gain background for broader responsibilities at the State Department but switched gears when he learned more about the important role of investment bankers in allocating funds to worthy economic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax
  • 29 Mar 2022
  • Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

can be rich in resources, providing both financial backing and mentoring, the authors say. “If you are in a society that has relatively few safety nets, both financial and other types of safety nets, then doing it within the construct of a family support View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

is a good alternative, it's hard to drop something. It gets embedded in models, it gets embedded in contracts. You might have a measurement system that says this fund manager will be paid based on how much the return beats the GICS... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
  • 19 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

making decisions often decide to trust their anecdotal experience rather than AI’s interpretation of the data. The trouble is, sometimes decision makers think they understand the inner workings of an AI system better than they actually... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

reviews through a sting conducted by Yelp. These data support our main results and shed further light on the economic incentives behind a business's decision to leave fake reviews. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49389 September 2015... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

management a way to assess the tradeoffs that must be made among competing constituencies, and that it allows for principled decision making independent of the personal preferences of managers and directors. Importantly, managers and directors also become accountable... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • June 23, 2020
  • Article

Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption

By: Serena Hagerty and Kate Barasz
Lower-income individuals are frequently criticized for their consumption decisions; this research examines why. Eleven preregistered studies document systematic differences in permissible consumption—interpersonal judgments about what is acceptable (or not) for others... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Judgments; Consumption; Economic Inequalty; Income; Equality and Inequality; Spending; Judgments
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  • July 2022
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The Developmental Origins and Behavioral Consequences of Attributions for Inequality

By: Antonya Marie Gonzalez, Lucia Macchia and Ashley V. Whillans
Attributions, or lay explanations for inequality, have been linked to inequality-relevant behavior. In adults and children, attributing inequality to an individual rather than contextual or structural causes is linked to greater support for economic inequality and less... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Behavior; Perception
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Compute Cluster and Data Storage - Research Computing Services

Foundation's Allocated Production Compute/Storage/Cloud (ACCESS) is an advanced cyberinfrastructure system providing advanced computing and data resources. Access to large-scale computing systems, storage,... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

advantage includes such things as smaller, faster, more agile organizations--and where management-by-consensus is a thing of the past. The emphasis is on marshalling rather than owning assets, including talent. In order to ensure the appropriate deployment of these... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance objective—reduction of carbon emissions—as a setting in which to examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2009
  • Article

Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?

By: Robert S. Huckman
As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of the loss of focus. In his classic article "The Focused Factory"... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Operations; Performance Efficiency
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  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Profiles - MBA

interest: Data Labeling, Machine Learning, Brain Computer Interfaces, AI Safety, Human-Centered AI Systems Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: The summer before college, I interned as the first... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53530 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Asset Price Dynamics in Partially Segmented Markets By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Gordon Y. Liao Abstract—We develop a model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

Working Papers Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences Authors: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business History - Faculty & Research

Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

Economics in 1997, to John Lintner who co-created the Capital Asset Pricing Model and made significant contributions to dividend policy , and Gordon Donaldson whose work helped shape the field of corporate finance . We strive to... View Details