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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Empirical Finance from the Southern Finance Association. Victoria Ivashina : Won the 2006 David M. Graifman Memorial Award from New York University for the Best Ph.D. thesis. 2005 Malcolm P. Baker : Winner... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Unlocking the Power of Community

When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Agarwal MBA 2010 | Founder & CEO, Mati Carbon Removals “Mati uses enhanced weathering in agricultural fields for doing scalable, permanent carbon removals, with co-benefits to marginal farmers. Leveraging our proprietary technology, we... View Details

18 Mar 2016
Blog Post

What is an IFC?

overwhelmed existing transit options and so the city is aggressively trying to create new routes and eliminate some of the black market options that are tremendously unsafe. In Buenos Aires, the city has implemented a very successful... View Details

24 Aug 2020
Blog Post

My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort

explore the biopharma world, so I joined L.E.K. Consulting after graduation and made my way to their Life Sciences practice. At L.E.K., I learned a tremendous amount about various pharma and biotech companies and their therapies. I worked on problems ranging from... View Details

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

theory is that, as chess players increase their skills, they increase the use of their frontal lobes—the part of the brain responsible for memory and determining consequences of actions. Chess, according to Berman, teaches children to... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

distancing. New patterns of consumer and worker behavior and expectations have emerged during the first weeks of the crisis. COVID-19 represents a tremendous economic shock and burden. In recent weeks, the focus has begun to shift towards... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

this product. Interestingly, they were able to use the model to predict how competing firms might react to different marketing scenarios, which led to better estimates of the real changes in demand that would result from a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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50 Years of Women in MBA

04 SEP 2012 Harvard Business School Class of 2014: First Impressions 14 JAN 2013 NEW YORK TIMES A Generation Gap? Not on This Web site Re: Halsey Schroeder (MBA ’11) 11 DEC 2012 HBS BULLETIN The Accidental... View Details

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

according to Koehn, are universal and ring true whether she's teaching the case to advertising execs or second-year students in the MBA program. They include: Take smart (and onging) stock of how you are using your people, your authority,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

Four years ago, I used Duolingo’s free language learning app to pick up enough German to impress my new girlfriend, who had recently moved to Boston from Munich. I was able to View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

asset managers with over USD $3 trillion in assets under management. The Asset Stewardship team leverages engagements, proxy voting, and thought leadership to manage material environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks to their portfolios. Climate change, land... View Details

08 Jul 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen

2025
Working Paper

Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

By: Sergey Chernenko, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein

We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36%... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Capital; Credit; Financial Institutions

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February 2015
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Evaluating the Impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on Breast-feeding Rates: A Multi-state Analysis

By: Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Ariel Dora Stern, Christopher F. Baum and Matthew W. Gillman

Objectives: Despite the passage of state laws promoting breast feeding, a formal evaluation has not yet been conducted to test whether and/or what type of laws may increase breast feeding. The enactment of breastfeeding laws in different states in the USA creates a... View Details

Keywords: Race; Nutrition; Laws and Statutes; United States

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New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change

Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges... View Details

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

Tsao, both of whom held senior positions in the US Department of Justice’s criminal division and now are Harvard Law School lecturers. It explores the topics through cases such as Wells Fargo’s creation of thousands of fake accounts, and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

of votes a single shareholder could have to restrictions on the number of family members who could act as directors simultaneously," Musacchio says. We interviewed Musacchio about the research findings that underpin his new book,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

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Resources - Alumni

New Venture Competition Resources 15ms Past Pitches : View past Student and Alumni NVC pitches Become an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Day Job Joining the Right Start-Up The Startup Rules of Three HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship... View Details

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