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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
how accounting captures an organization's strategic decisions. Highlights The Role of Capital Markets Strategy’s Impact on Financials Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction to Strategic Financial Analysis Mapping Strategy into Financial... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
Want to gain more respect at the office? Consider wearing red sneakers to work. OK, so maybe it's not quite that cut-and-dried. But recent research does find that people who wear offbeat clothes in a professional setting are often... View Details
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Anita Lynch
around the house warding off the loneliness and fear to gain a feeling of hope, connectedness, and belonging to something greater than myself. I now realize how much an inner sense of belonging in the world inspires me to achieve great... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
working at McKinsey & Co. in the early 1990s, he cofounded its Multimedia Practice Group and was soon recruited to take over the New Media division of Paramount Studios. He then cofounded Worlds, Incorporated, an Internet software company for which he raised $17... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern venture capital companies established... View Details
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Alika Phipps
Ratings and Capital Structure Advisory Group, “advising clients on the optimal capital structure to maintain a favorable credit rating. JP Morgan was a great experience. But although I View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
impact on discriminatory behavior. Smart choices and transparent experimentation can create markets that are both more efficient and more inclusive. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51982 Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
dilemmas. The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper III (MBA '54) (Palgrave Macmillan) Draper looks at how the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship works.... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
process itself can actually shape the realized strategy of the firm. This can include internal reporting structures and incentive systems, but it can also reflect external factors such as capital markets and customers. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
Veronica Serra (MBA 1997) In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder of Pacific Investments, a private equity firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
that compensatory fit can only work when there is a powerful informal organization already in existence and when the gains from ambidexterity are substantial. Further, depending on the strength of the informal organization, breakdown in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
we start by asking, ‘What will it take to eliminate disease?,’ we will gain a better understanding of why the disease occurs and what bits of biology need to be fixed—which allows us to create better medicines and, over time, get to a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
firm practicing by-product synergy gains a cost advantage. Therefore, as disposal cost increases, the total amount of waste decreases more when there is a firm practicing by-product synergy than when there is not. Additionally, it may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
such a historical and prestigious institution, there was this sense that we had to do something big. Why else did we work so hard to gain access to these spaces? But we aren't the ones that broke the system, and we aren't the ones that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
customers and business partners). Q: Could you elaborate more on this point that firms might choose to follow the rules when they cross-list on a U.S. exchange not because they're concerned about repercussions, but because of the business reputational assets they View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Administration Marco Iansiti and Charles Edwin Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow Karim R. Lakhani). Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire—this recent book offers insights into the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
be able to experiment with the economics and logistics of a pizza business and gain firsthand experience of his customers as well. The outlet was an instant hit, but Pujals resisted the temptation to immediately replicate it. He waited a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
chose to host conference calls in English, placing themselves on shaky linguistic ground. The recent working paper Capital Market Consequences of Non-Plain English in Conference Calls of Foreign Firms appears to be one of the first... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman