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Developing the Plan - Advancing Racial Equity

Professor Jan Hammond, chief marketing & communications officer Brian Kenny, and chief inclusion & diversity officer Terrill Drake. We formed the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and identified the work required in seven key areas. After... View Details
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

answer might have appeared just too obvious: payouts are funded with free cash flow-at least over long enough time periods. In stark contrast to this commonly held view, we find that firms rely on the capital markets to finance a third of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance
  • 20 Jan 2023
  • News

Free Spirits

year to the second. The segment now has a dedicated trade association and big expectations to meet: Global Market Insights predicts the sector will reach $30 billion by 2025. Mariah Wood (left) and Vanessa Royle (Courtesy Tilden... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

urgent systemic changes needed to address climate change. By doing what’s right for people and the planet, pep+ will help position our company as a consistent top market performer by generating stronger, more loyal connections with our... View Details
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

  Publications August 2013 The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets By: Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2021
  • News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

brother-in-law, who was a CPA; my dad was an 8th grade-educated entrepreneur. And my uncle began taking the money from the partnership that broke up in 1955 and started a competitive chain called Mr. Donut. My dad was so upset at the fact... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

purely symbolic effects can materialize when former employers are highly prominent because these hires increase the hiring organization's market visibility. Leveraging an idiosyncratic feature of wine View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
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TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

perceptions of firms' size and/or market power. Benchmarks as Limits to Arbitrage: Understanding the Low-Volatility Anomaly Authors:Malcolm Baker, Brendan Bradley, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Melcolm Ruffin

with the Philadelphia 76ers, supporting front office scouting and draft preparation. Continuing a tradition of strong Black leadership After graduation, Melcolm began a five-year tenure with the NBA League Headquarters in New York City, focusing largely on View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
  • 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2022
  • Blog Post

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

Sutton Guldner (MBA 2022), Director of Partnerships for Nucleate Eco, and Jesse Lou (MBA 2022), Co-Founder of PicoGreens, 2021 Nucleate finalist, spoke with BEI about NucleateEco and how it supports eco-focused entrepreneurs.... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

connected than oneself was associated with more friendship formation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53066 Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

the insights it provides. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51754 2016 Journal of Marketing Research 'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation-despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53857 First Quarter 2018 Dialogue Beyond Engagement By: Hallowell, Roger, Hervé Coyco, and Randall White Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53796 forthcoming... View Details