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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
survey evidence on investor expectations. This suggests that the survey evidence does not need to be seen as an inconvenient obstacle to understanding the stock market; on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
pricing scheme, bond markets will be central to financing climate change and other environmental interventions. So-called green bonds appeal to investors who are looking for a... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
Summing Up Judging from responses to the January column, the debate concerning reform of the social security system in the U.S. will take many directions before the question can even be framed adequately. If... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52978 July 2017 Business and Human Rights Journal Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—Human rights have come View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
In fact, it makes it worse. Q: What if rating agencies were paid by investors rather than by bond issuers? Wouldn't that stop forum shopping? A: In theory, yes. The people who are being served by the rating agencies, the investors, should... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
responsible for your supplier's supplier and your customer's customer. We also need leaders who are relationship-oriented, willing to have partners sit at the table, willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
perhaps the most cited rationale by investors and firms seeking to explain their ambitions for operations on the Continent. Yet in the intervening decade since The Economist published its namesake issue,... View Details
- March 2019 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Measuring Impact at JUST Capital
By: Ethan C. Rouen and Charles C.Y. Wang
JUST Capital is a nonprofit organization that seeks to make public companies more "just" by measuring and ranking their overall impact on society, based on the priorities most important to the average American. This case examines JUST’s strategy for influencing... View Details
Rouen, Ethan C., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Measuring Impact at JUST Capital." Harvard Business School Case 119-092, March 2019. (Revised April 2019.)
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
blocking ourselves from new challenges. This response hurts us and our organizations, but we fear making ourselves even more vulnerable by committing mistakes while learning something new. In Flying Without a Net, Thomas DeLong explains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
skills, (2) broad perspective, (3) teaming skills, (4) expanded social network, and (5) boundary-spanning skills. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our ideas for conducting future team research. Board of Directors' View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
investors provide a little funding and limited governance to an increased number of startups that they are more likely to abandon, but where initial experiments significantly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
with more than 700 responses in their final sample. Some of what they found was to be anticipated. Sure enough, having a family member who worked in a for-profit firm as opposed View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
collaborate with like-minded investors to ensure stable returns sold their holdings 3.4 years after the first funding round, on average. "FOR A LOT OF ENTREPRENEURS, IT'S JUST ABOUT ... HOW MUCH FUNDING... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
fact, in recent years, Blum and his team were responsible for more such outsized successes than any other producer, especially in the horror genre. The company’s approach to moviemaking is quite different... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
high-powered computers, and how the technology will be used in the real world. I learned deeply in a space I’m passionate about and developed an informed point of view. From the playing field to the sidelines A successful venture... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity