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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132779781 Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We provide evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS in Israel
apply and attend HBS. Students from Israel are a diverse group, but there are some things they tend to have in common including excellent military service records, strong entrepreneurial sense, and a meaningful commitment to social... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
"Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship." —Abdu'l-Bahá The field of economics is rife with the concept of "capital." There's financial capital—cold hard cash or cashable assets. There's fixed capital—the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
Waterman), Level 5 Leadership (described by Jim Collins as centered around personal humility and professional will), servant leadership (defined by Robert Greenleaf in terms of service to others as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
participants with management in creating a new management approach and then researching its efficacy. The process has been used successfully at companies such as Merck, Honeywell, and Hewlett-Packard in addition to Becton Dickinson, and at organizational levels ranging... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- Web
The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
financing and how the organization should be structured so that it can deliver a product or service reliably. DIFFICULT DECISIONS addresses many of the perennial questions of entrepreneurship: “Should I persist, pivot, or perish (close... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline service jobs. In 2016, Dowling used her findings to launch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation. Time - a precious... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with such a prestigious accolade alongside many leaders of the mainstream music industry today made all of the hard work of the past decade deeply worth it.” Tucker: “I think View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
uninformed about the opportunities. For the HBSWANY panel, Greub was joined by classmates Rachel Brannan (MBA 1987), a former investment banker, and Corinne Nevinny (MBA 1987), a General Partner with Avestria. “Many in our audience were surprised to learn how very few... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
cluster-based approach to economic development. When firms locate near each other they can benefit by sharing knowledge, pooling resources, and establishing relationships with local educational institutions that train potential employees.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. What she found may surprise you:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
“Business Solutions for Inclusive Prosperity.” The intersection of business and society is a topic Chu has been immersed in, as a practitioner and a researcher, for almost 30 years. He is a partner emeritus of the IGNIA Fund, a venture capital View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
“Distinguished Scholar” honored for leadership on top of academic excellence; and a BS in Electronic Engineering from ESPOL in Ecuador. Dr. Condo also works as an independent consultant in strategic planning and global strategy for firms... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
probability of reaching the top, nor are they paid equally,” the researchers write. An entire nation of data To investigate the gender gap, the research team collected data on virtually every person who worked as a top executive in a Swedish View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Diversification By: Kuppuswamy, Venkat, George Serafeim, and Belén Villalonga Abstract—Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—software, animation and mobile telephony—we illustrate two key sources of inefficiencies that this mismatch can create, all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies (including Sun & Son, Inc., a national Lotus Notesbased computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso