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  • 13 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success

unproven, borrow resources they can't afford to buy, and build buyers' interest in their activity. Others may see them as risk takers, but good entrepreneurs are actually good at getting other folks to take... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
  • Article

Targeting Weather Insurance Markets

By: Anita Mukherjee, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen... View Details
Keywords: Index Insurance; Labor Markets; Self-insurance; Self-protection; Weather; Insurance; Markets; Household; Risk Management
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  • April 2001
  • Teaching Note

Katharine Graham TN

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Lisa M. Gunther and Dina R. Pradel
Teaching Note for (9-801-276). View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Public Ownership; Power and Influence; Experience and Expertise; Value; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 15 Mar 2010
  • HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

and improved services in the same area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 13 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

Tempura Women having a heart attack are less likely to die if their doctor is also female, a new study shows. How much less likely? When treated for a heart attack by men, the risk for women goes up 1.5 percent. That means roughly one in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

higher risk projects and new ventures. This has a domino effect on the venture capital providers and subsequently on the angel investor community. Each group is concerned that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward

Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Private Households; Personal Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto

wanted to be able to experiment and take career risks and HBS seemed to allow me to do that through the 2+2 program. The second reason I applied to HBS is because it felt like... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

amounts of internal energy go to 'making the quarter return' rather than serving the customer and building the future. Why did quarter returns develop in the first place?" Bill Hubbell added, "The market has many mechanisms to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 21 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807074   PublicationsPerspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication:Chemical Heritage Press, 2007... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

headquarters reminds us that a brand is a precious asset. The value of any brand asset depends upon whether it has delivered on its past promises and is believed likely to do so in the future. It takes years of effort to build brand trust... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

The HBS Show Must Go On

day, knowing that we were able to come together and produce something great. We need the performing arts now more than ever. In some ways, performing is kind of a like a return to the level of play we experienced as children in the... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

billions of dollars invested in biotech in recent decades, most biotech companies do not turn a profit. He suggests that the industry needs a new "anatomy," one that can better cope with risk and... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

on basic courses such as marketing, accounting, and the like does so at the risk of inadequately providing its graduates with the basics needed for success in the early years of their careers. Do recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

anticorruption ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption risk ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
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 credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for... View Details
Keywords: Fixed Income; Reaching For Yield; Financial Intermediation; Insurance Companies; Insurance; Bonds; Assets; Risk Management; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Insurance Industry
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  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

sector has lost money during this period, new research shows. What went wrong? Professor Gary Pisano provides answers in the new book Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech, in which he argues that the very... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

executives’ brothers, reasoning, for example, that tall people tend to have tall brothers. They looked at differences in risk tolerance, measured by whether the executive played the stock market. They looked at network connections, such... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

measure of carbon embedded within their institutional clients’ assets under custody to help clients understand the climate risk in their portfolios. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51261 Finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne