Publications

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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Weiss, “Real Estate History: An Overview and Research Agenda,” Business History Review 63 (1989): 241–282. Leo Grebler, David M. Blank, and Louis Winnick, Capital Formation in Residential Real Estate: View Details

Research Summary

The timing of team leader coaching interventions

People who coach teams – including team leaders, senior members of an organization, and external consultants – must observe team dynamics and diagnose opportune moments to intervene. My dissertation, “The timing and type of team... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

person? Once this question is asked, it is quite amazingly simple to answer. Clearly, every job must provide an opportunity to fulfill, to some reasonable degree, all four drives. In other words, every job needs to provide an View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

June 2010
Case

Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)

By: Anette Mikes

An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Energy; Energy Industry; Canada

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

different races, backgrounds, and genders who share the same values and goals. The ultimate goal of bridging is not friendship, emphasizes Opie, but rather an opportunity for... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

Business in Society Understand what it takes to combine purpose and profit and how businesses can face today's global challenges. Explore Subject Business and Climate Change... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Action Plan: In Context

into an enormous market opportunity for multinational corporations. “There were a lot of Chinese who felt like they needed to improve their knowledge and confidence of how to behave in these different... View Details

Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior

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All Locations - Recruiting

2024. View MBA Hiring Organizations Entrepreneurship Facts & figures on students founding companies and joining start-ups. Entrepreneurship Facts & Figures Historical Trends View View Details

24 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

Management Program through a Google search for educational opportunities for undergrads, and knew that I had to try, even if I thought I felt like it was out of my league. I received an acceptance letter... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Newspapers (6) Non-Governmental Organizations (10) Non-Renewable Energy (2) Nonprofit Organizations (55) Nonverbal Communication (2) Online Advertising (16) Online Technology (32) Open Source Distribution (18) Operations (228) View Details

2024
Conference Paper

Quantifying Uncertainty in Natural Language Explanations of Large Language Models

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Sree Harsha Tanneru and Chirag Agarwal

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as powerful tools for several high-stakes natural language processing (NLP) applications. Recent prompting works claim to elicit intermediate reasoning steps and key tokens that serve as proxy explanations for LLM... View Details

Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning

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April 2020
Supplement

Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment

By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu

This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor liquidity and limited ability to obtain credit. One of these companies was Pierre... View Details

Keywords: Distress Investing; Investment; Debt Securities; Strategy; Restructuring

10 Jan 2018
Blog Post

8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method

professor could ask follow-up questions to bring out the nuances in your answer. While being cold called isn’t exactly the most pleasant experience in the world, it is a great opportunity to lay out the framework for the case View Details

March 2021
Case

P.F. Chang's

By: Ashish Nanda, Nitin Nohria and Margaret Cross

Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang’s beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed “nonessential” owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had devastated the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scenario Planning; Scenarios; Health Pandemics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

your other degree program, and why? I applied to HBS as part of the 2+2 program while I was a senior in college. I was attracted by the opportunity to spend time developing my skill set in the professional... View Details

January 2025
Case

Arsenal Capital Partners' Refinancing of Pinnacle

By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu

Arsenal Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Pinnacle, a leading producer of high-performance adhesive technologies, has experienced rapid growth under Arsenal’s ownership. Over just two years, Pinnacle's EBITDA increased from $13.5 million to $60 million. By mid-2021,... View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth Management

July 2003 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (B), The

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

This case provides the outcome to "The Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (A)" in which the CFO of General Motors' joint venture in Shanghai, Shanghai General Motors (SGM), wants to refinance almost $900 million of project finance it raised to begin operations. The... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Joint Ventures; Financing and Loans; Auto Industry; Shanghai