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18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

leave, the smaller the next fund is. That’s because limited partners often take the time to look at the partnership makeup at private equity firms when deciding which ones to invest in. Limited partners “have a lot of private View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

industry. The forum began with a discussion about the marketing power of social media, but quickly evolved into a conversation about race issues in the sports entertainment industry. 'unbelievable Platform' All acknowledged that Twitter... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

found that when work schedules clash, real-time communication drops, and some workers feel pressure to shift their work-related conversations to early or late periods of the day when they should be off the clock. Yet talking after hours... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

together heterogeneous teams, you want to make sure that it happens in a way that people collaborate, and there is a lot of conversation and opportunities for them to adjust as they go.” An invitation for further research The findings in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

things done in real life or not. The authors of a recently published book, Execution, perhaps unintentionally suggest the nature of the challenge. Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan converse about a treatise based on their many years of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

Avoiding dissenting opinion. People find it comfortable to talk with those who share their views. Managers need to keep their minds open to the new perspectives and new facts that can come from regular conversations with government... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

No one organization can monopolize knowledge in any given field. That's why modern companies must develop a new expertise: the ability to attract novel solutions to difficult or unanticipated problems from outside sources around the world. A View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

influence of social networks for a while. We noticed that every time we met people at conferences, an immediate starting point in conversations was to ask where one went to school. Educational connections seemed to be the first way people... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

334-page e-book, The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, can be downloaded in .pdf format from the link at the bottom of the story. Selected remarks to the group made by HBS Dean Nitin Nohria are reprinted here. I am truly excited to have this opportunity to begin a... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

business talks, our other career skills won't do us much good. Many of us, however, approach these critical conversations woefully unprepared. Fortunately, a large number of Harvard Business School faculty research this area constantly,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

parties, music events, knitting circles, culinary demonstrations, and other events. Several stores Raffaelli visited reported staging over 500 events a year. “Bookstores have always been a place where people could convene and have a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

exposure is not much of an issue. A convertible bond can be viewed as a simple coupon paying corporate bond plus a conversion option. A bond pricing model discounts the promised payments at a rate that compensates for time, risk, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

said in the working paper, Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from US Trade Policy. The US-China trade tensions, which have been roiling global stock markets, will likely dominate conversations when leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

downturn in 2001, however, Anderson said that the dialogue changed, shifting to her suitability for the work at hand. "That was a conversation I was absolutely unprepared for," she recalled. "I questioned every aspect of my... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

classroom and across the campus. Similarly, we must recognize that current reporting practices are antiquated, and the time for a new, sustainable framework has arrived." The workshop included a discussion of the HBS case study, Southwest Airlines One Report and a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

about climate change from a political discussion to a practical conversation about risk and reward. Identify eco-friendly partners Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems? George Serafeim has a theory that if... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

skilled nursing facilities for their recovery, where they could learn how to walk, climb stairs, and get into a car with their new knee or hip. In other hospitals, however, those skills were discussed in a 30- to 60-minute conversation in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

early 1720, the South Sea Company and the Bank of England were competing for the right to issue new shares and to exchange those shares for government bonds that were then in the hands of the public. The British government had already executed two such debt View Details