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- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
My path into the field of biotechnology began at a young age. I was largely influenced by my mother, who is a chemical engineer with an MBA, and by my upbringing in Boston, which exposed me to one of the top biotech/healthcare... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
and leaders who set the right tone and secure resources. With examples gathered largely from Procter & Gamble and Citigroup, readers are escorted through each step, with valuable chapter-ending diagnostics and tips. Especially insightful... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
in lieu of higher salaries. The claim simply ignores the fact that a lack of cash need not be a barrier to compensating executives.— Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan, and Robert C. Merton Even privately held companies that raise funds through angel and venture capital View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however, relative to the corresponding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Philipp Schäelli
year, I could really push myself academically. Due to the large share of international students and the two years spent together, I was able to really expand my network of friends and business contacts. How has your overall HBS experience... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a domestic entrepreneur who is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
desire of countries and companies to shift to a low-carbon growth path." Diverse Set Of Challenges One of the challenges facing investors and companies interested in getting into the game in Asia is the diverse set of cultural and... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased... View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken carved out new ways to restructure large amounts of publicly traded debt. Gilson's research suggests that the total costs associated with Milken's method of reorganizing troubled companies were as little... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
Do Super Stretch Goals Require More Commitment Than a Large Organization Can Muster? Youth of an organization or its members is not the primary determinant of whether an organization successfully utilizes super stretch goals. The majority... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
Value Lab at the Digital Data and Design Institute at Harvard. The researchers found that PE investors often turn to digital transformation strategies and technology to help revamp portfolio firms, and this investment often accelerates... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
slow. She and her company are working to close what they see as a major gap at the intersection of fintech and climate change. “Our investors and Board are now focused on impact,” Amanda said. “They want us to model impact more... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
driven by mistaken earnings estimates. We show that investors appear to overweight recent lower earnings following positive seasonality quarters, leading to pessimistic forecasts in the subsequent positive seasonality quarter. The returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
information technology companies. When I analyzed founder versus non-founder compensation, I found that there is a large "founder discount" (averaging about $30,000 a year), even after controlling for all of the other... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
reallocates resources to go after those 'cracks', they will be missed." At the end of the day, he wrote, "most investors are looking at total cash flow return on total investment. An agile corporate center can better focus on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
found that these investors were largely apathetic about the gender politics of Japanese corporations—yet this overestimation of Western progressiveness has led to tangible progress in Japan, as firms begin... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
uses the Mexican coffee economy to show how rural landholders and workers had a surprisingly large influence on foreign—and state—driven modernization projects, and how small plantations outlasted large ones... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
financier, a public stock offering, or some other source. But potential investors often greet entrepreneurs' business plans with skepticism, or worse, turn them down entirely. Alternatively, some investors... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
returned home and pursued a career in business, first as partner at Butler Capital in New York and later as global co-head of investor relations with Apax Partners. As he and his wife, Cynthia, began to move through their lives, having... View Details