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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
short-term price volatility of U.S. Treasury bonds has been about 5.5 percent per year in real terms—that is, after correcting for inflation. This volatility is certainly small when we compare it to the volatility of stock returns, which... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
users. Q: So the 25 million Mac users Apple talks about are customers over time? A: That's correct. There are roughly 25 million Macintosh users in the entire installed base. But in fact the real number of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
arrogance." That's why interviews require careful preparation. On the one hand, current directors want to see evidence that candidates have done their homework: have they examined the financials, read the publicly available reports, studied the industry context as a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
matter where and at what price the money to fund an entrepreneurial venture comes from? The answer, it turns out, is that it does matter—a fact that policymakers may benefit from understanding as they look at ways to generate more entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Profile
Anthony Martore
a time-constrained environment. This exercise was memorable because real world events often vary from strategic plans, and the step of evaluating all elements of a process, from the throughput unit numbers to organizational culture and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
learn more about HBS Clubs and club activities in your area, please visit www.clubhub.hbs.org/. In October, Alvin Roth, a member of the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit and Harvard University's Department of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the job, I thought they were crazy," he says. "Not only was I not an artist, I had no real experience as an educator either. To this day, I have no idea how they got it past the faculty!" Getting to MICA, a 172-year-old Baltimore... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
Dee Leopold observes that such students have “navigated uncertainty, managed a diverse ‘workforce,’ shouldered real responsibility, and been held accountable.” Clearly, military experience is useful and desirable in business (as a series... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Would their children be interested in being actively involved in the Group? How to manage all that? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-055 Investing in Nature: The Nature... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated preference to use View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
surfaces the unvarnished truth about an organization's innovation strategy needs to move back and forth between advocacy and inquiry. CEOs and senior leaders need not only to defend their initiative but also to find out what others think, up front. Indeed, the two... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
diversity at the executive and board levels, and changing the conversation by going beyond simply filling a pipeline with diverse applicants. Instead, Culture Shift is creating an ecosystem of people who have the power to make real... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
effect was mediated by self-reported feelings of moral purity. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased the amount of money participants donated to a good cause, and self-reported feelings of moral purity mediated this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Health Care Initiative?
and entrepreneurial projects across all sectors of health care. 1. Community Prospective students and admitted MBAs often ask what it takes to be a part of the HCI. The only real requirement is a passion to make a difference in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
nations have improved since 1980, the new instruments are failing to satisfy the interests of either host countries or their business partners. Protections can be improved by developing a real consensus on the part of investors' home... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
diagnosing whether a company is trapped in active inertia, selecting the right commitment, giving it traction, and avoiding mistakes that commonly derail transformation efforts. Sull maintains that inaction is rarely the cause of an... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
candidates to admissions. Student and alumni organizations - including the Network of Women Alumnae, the Women's Student Association, the African-American Student Union, and the European Club - are active in this effort. Referred... View Details
Keywords: Cindy Olnick
- Fast Answer
Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research
module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Preqin
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