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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
and kindness, to instill dignity and confidence. It’s not just writing a check. And as much as people say ‘Don’t take it personally,’ of course it’s personal. There’s so much at stake. For a founder, this is it: This is their life.” It’s View Details
- 09 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Insights From Harvard Business School’s Peek Program
professional and personal lives, we often have to make decisions under uncertainty and constraints. The Case Method helped me to learn how to make difficult choices and resolve crises. Second, I enjoyed listening to the opinions of my... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
amount so specific. A round number, on the other hand, suggests that a person is just ballparking it—offering an approximate valuation based on vague knowledge. In one 2013 study, for example, participants played an online game based on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-054.pdf Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Belén Villalonga... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
some of the personal details of how and where they grew up—and how that shaped the person they are today. Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: John Hess (MBA 1977) is CEO of Hess Corporation, a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey
students. We interviewed two students about their experiences with SIPs, taking a closer look at their time in the Spiritual Lives of Leaders and Personal Finance courses. Tricia Peralta (MBA 2024) -... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- March 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Vestas' World of Wind
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Elena Corsi
The wind turbine manufacturer Vestas launched the industry's first highly localized and customized new product launch campaigns which used also new tools such as web 2.0 platforms. Used to operate in a market where demand exceeded supply, Vestas had lost contact with... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Marketing Channels; Internet and the Web; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Advertising Campaigns; Global Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Finance; Product Marketing; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry
Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Elena Corsi. "Vestas' World of Wind." Harvard Business School Case 511-121, March 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an appropriate source (passion) can shape perceptions of, and decisions about, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
online trading platform of Interactive Investor, a London-based financial advisory site. She also spent a summer on Wall Street working for Merrill Lynch in its Financial Institutions M&A group. She began her investment career as an Associate Director in Bank of... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
Parthenon Group 2008 Named Managing Director, Parthenon Group 2011 Cofounds Social Finance 2011 Named Board Chair, Facing History and Ourselves 2013 Social Finance launches first Social Impact Bond 2017... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction
instruments and institutions of twenty-first century credit—the installment plan, the credit card, and the home finance industry—are less than a century old. Yet credit itself is as old as commerce. “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Willy Walker (MBA 1995) is the chairman and CEO of Walker and Dunlop, a commercial real estate finance firm founded in 1937 by his grandfather and his great... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. When they do find out, they often want to sue, but they can’t. Financial services companies require customers to waive their right to litigate and instead resolve their disputes... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load but needed to arrange debtor in possession financing to provide liquidity while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2012
- Working Paper
Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Julie Wulf. "Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO ." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-056, January 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- Web
Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
course, and consider your personal leadership development plan Various video uploads to practice what you’ve learned throughout the course Term 2 Course Elective (Term 2) CLIMB features two electives: one View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
whole School.” The rest, as they say, is history. Named in his honor, Baker Library was designed to serve as the visual and intellectual focal point of the new campus. Today, the library’s renowned Historical Collections reflect Baker’s View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that... View Details