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Peek into the MBA | MBA

does not have a formal application process. What is Peek into the MBA? Peek into the MBA is a free virtual program intended for undergraduate students who are interested in getting a peek into the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program experience and to learn... View Details

26 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

counterintuitive, conclusion: An overreliance on founders’ specialized knowledge narrows startups’ options as they seek the right paths to commercialize their work. “It’s not like they are doing worse science, have worse patents, or are... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

and will vary with the dynamics of change in the marketplace. Identification of a market is also required to define the "architecture of the revenues"—how a customer will pay, how much to charge, and how the value created will... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

19 Jan 2022

Peek

This three day virtual program is intended for current undergraduate students who are interested in getting a peek into the MBA experience and to learn more about the value of an MBA for their personal and professional development. Peek... View Details

27 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Management Consulting Club

Case’. Additionally, many companies submit job postings and events exclusively to club members. Students also have the option of participating in case prep mentorship groups with second-year students who have successfully received offers.... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Oct 2002
News

Faculty Research Symposium

median annual pay of a Fortune 500 CEO is approximately $3 million in option grants, $1 million in bonus, and $1 million in salary. But in addition, that same executive will, over time, have accumulated holdings of stock and View Details

12 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

doesn’t always have to be time consuming or distracting. The company Amplitude challenged how businesses handle equity compensation by extending the company options exercise windows to years versus the standard 90-day window most... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

November 1994 (Revised November 1994)
Case

MW Petroleum Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall

Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Mining; Cash Flow; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Price; Negotiation; Production; Valuation; Mining Industry

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01 Oct 1998
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Merton Named University Professor

Professor of Management. In 1988, he joined the HBS faculty. Merton's research is focused on developing finance theory in the areas of capital markets and financial institutions. Along with fellow Nobel Laureate Myron S. Scholes and the late Fischer Black, Merton... View Details

January 2010 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Aubrey McClendon's Special Incentive Compensation at Chesapeake Energy (A)

By: Paul Healy, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia

Aubrey McClendon, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy, was, according to Fortune Magazine, the highest paid U.S. CEO in 2008 receiving over $100 million in total compensation. McClendon received this compensation despite a significant drop in the company's stock price... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Price; Stock Options; Valuation; Joint Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Energy Industry; United States

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15 Jun 2021
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Advancing Racial Equity

friends have the option of directing their HBS Fund gifts specifically to Diversity and Equity. In addition, alumni and friends of the School can visit the Advancing Racial Equity section of the HBS website anytime to learn more about the... View Details

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

their returns. They believe that companies must select among binary options of serving shareholders or serving society. This is a wrong-headed idea because companies with clarity about their purpose actually perform better in the long... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

06 Jan 2020
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Home Grown

Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Changing Permissions on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services

Option 1: Add 'execute' to the owner’s ("user") permissions researchgrid$ chmod u+x *.pdf Option 2: Alternate way to add 'execute' to the owner’s ("user") permissions. ‘r’ has View Details

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

external CEO is probably the 'easiest, politically correct' option . . . where there would typically be two or three close [internal] contenders for the top job." A number of ways of meeting these challenges were suggested. Klopack's... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Ben Steiner

think the highest calling of business is to build something new that employs people and adds value to the economy.” Ben sees his summer work with the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel “as a good illustration of what each school brings to... View Details

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Jay Khil

colleagues. "There's a support network around me when I have questions or when I'm unsure what I want to do. That's the biggest value I've gained from my HBS experience. A Harvard degree opens up different View Details

18 Jun 2014
News

Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt

value of loyalty,” he continues. “The Marines taught me to judge people by a simple rule: If you’re running up a hill under fire, will the person at your side stand by you? This value has determined how I’ve... View Details

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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