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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

attention and were an integral factor in extending products’ market reach nationwide. Throughout the 1800s, black-and-white trade cards and business cards with fine detail were created through the process of engraving on wood, copper, or... View Details

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

the paper “Furloughs: An Alternative to Layoffs for Economic Downturns,” we discuss the factors leaders should consider before choosing furloughs. A key challenge to implementing furloughs in the United States is navigating the myriad... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

and hire the right people right away, and each time you add a new person to the team, there will likely be a J-curve impact on productivity. Therefore, when you prioritize hiring, factor in how long some roles will take to fill. For... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

Choice Award: Reel SeafoodsJohn Ahrens, Beverly See, Rob Weeks - Lewis Lab, HarvardCell-based seafood with 3D bioprinting to improve texture and scale. Eco Track JDEI Award: Sun SerumYing Sun, Sophie Levin- Salk InstituteSustainable alternatives for growth View Details

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract Reaching-for-yield-the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

US Pre-1950 Founder 43% Family Business 26% Other CEO 31% US 1950 & After Founder 32% Family Business 14% Other CEO 54% THE 20th CENTURY ZEITGEIST Six contextual factors deeply influenced the opportunities available to 20th century... View Details

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

revenue sharing arrangements WeWork provides landlords in exchange for the latter’s willingness to provide the capital for the buildout and tenant improvements at their facilities. Both factors will have an impact on their top line... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

evolution, this is not by far the whole story. Real interest rates have also experienced a secular decline and a subsequent sharp reversal which cannot be attributed to inflation. Their evolution suggests that other important factors... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

perspectives from founders, CEOs and numerous executives, board members, partners, customers, analysts, and the tech and financial press. Two of the firms became cognitive referents for online investing while the other three fizzled out.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

pursue. In the book, we discuss General Electric’s efforts to build their Predix platform. Predix was clearly going to be a multiyear, maybe multibillion dollar investment and one that was increasingly difficult for GE to afford. But it’s... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

performance. To perform the modified Dupont Decomposition, students learn how to reformat and condense the balance sheet and income statement to separately measure profitability arising from operating activities and financing activities. Students also see how excess... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: The Money of Invention

the United States. That trend will continue, they contend. Despite many of the recent excesses in the venture industry and the slide in the economy — and more specifically in the venture-drenched tech sector — Gompers and Lerner assert that venture capital View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Finance; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact screens, leaving no doubt that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

the value of corporate sustainability activities ” Although researchers have studied returns around socially responsible investing and around corporate ESG performance, there has been little attention paid to how public sentiment momentum... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

ownership in a small group of investors—reflecting the smaller subset of investors who place value on environmental benefits, such as funds that have some green or social investing orientation. While the difference in return is admittedly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

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

current account trade deficit for the US followed, with the resulting funds invested by the Chinese government in US Treasury bonds instead of going into increased consumption by Chinese consumers. This depressed global interest rates and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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