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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
business. “I knew it was a great fit for me,” he says. During the fifteen years he has worked at Merrill, O’Neal has proved himself again and again, moving from various positions in different divisions of the firm — financial services, global capital markets, View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1640638 Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
behavior that is enacted during interactions and observed by perceivers affects how those perceivers evaluate and respond to the actor, this experiment focused on how a nonverbal behavior that is enacted before the interaction and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
pitching. Her 2014 paper on the topic produced headlines: Investors prefer attractive men. Even when the content of the pitches—as observed both in lab experiments and in the field—was the same, attractive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Bruce Gago
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to HBS with a background exclusively in real estate finance, and I knew I needed to gain a broad set of managerial and entrepreneurial skills in order to become more successful later in my career. How has your... View Details
- Profile
Mark Gundersen
experience absolutely made me come alive. I spent most of the summer analyzing financials and modeling loans. Then one afternoon, I got a chance to meet the people we were making loans to. A farmer wearing a 'World's Best Dad' T-shirt... View Details
- Profile
Akshay Ghulati
eight months he sold many of the holdings to a private equity investor and broke new ground again – as the first non-MBA hired by A.T. Kearney. "I helped them set up an office in Dubai," says Akshay. "Now they've... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
for social investors. These are people who put their money where their mouth isand they pay a very significant price.— Sam Hayes Hayes related an experience as a member of a Swarthmore College investment committee, which was responsible... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
changes affect the company," she says. "They want directors with insight on how the world works today, particularly regarding technology." Secondly, they're more eager for diversity. "Diversity is being driven by a louder voice from View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
producers, instead of investing in just a handful of products and making them appeal to mass audiences, should spread their resources more equally across a larger number of smaller bets. A lot of people in the media world and investors... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
investment deals and 2.3 percent of dollars among the investors surveyed went to women-owned firms, the Center discovered. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, an authority on entrepreneurship—especially the founding of high potential new... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
States but around the world that hamper rapid iteration and experimentation in the product development process. This, in turn, stifles innovation, scares off private investors and creates an industry-regulatory culture that has grown to... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
G. Tsimerinov, (PLDA 16, 2017) (right) and Anu Dhir (GMP 2018) (middle) “Club members enjoyed hearing about the principal-agent problem, cash flow measures signaling value, and investor capitalism,” says Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
On Course | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
path-breaking research on defining and measuring social impact. Under Professor Alnoor Ebrahim’s guidance, she and classmate Alina Staskevicius (MBA 2015) undertook a self-designed Independent Project and surveyed over 20 impact investors... View Details
- Profile
Anthony Tan
first called MyTeksi, in June, 2012. He managed to find early round financing from several investors in the U.S. and Asia and despite his family’s unhappiness with his decision to forego his role at Tan Chong Motor, Tan pressed ahead... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
wanted to. Still, it wasn’t until investors came calling that Amed realized that London-based BoF could be a business. In 2013, he took on backers that included industry powerhouses LVMH and Index Ventures, threw in some of his own money,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
narrowly,” says David Clough, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, and coauthor of the paper. “There is a tendency to go only to close friends and family members.” Beyond that, entrepreneurs tend to network with a... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
"Shark Tank Air Date 11/15," read the subject line. "I thought, 'This can't be real,'" says Donna. She replied to confirm the message, assuming someone on the other end had made a mistake. After all, not everyone who makes it in front of America's most public View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
But it wasn't long before one firm violated that understanding, and to avoid being put at a competitive disadvantage, everybody else began ignoring the recommendations too. From that experience and others, I know that intra-industry trust... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons