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Our Team - Impact Investments
Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial... View Details
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
Introduction to Credential of Readiness (CORe) CORe INCLUDES Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, Financial Accounting, + final exam. Save $1,790 with this 3-course bundle. Have questions about CORe? Email our program advising team... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
using textual analysis of patents, job postings, and earnings calls, enabling us to identify four stylized facts on the diffusion of jobs relating to new technologies. First, the development of economically impactful new technologies is... View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
responsibilities, such as assessing value and performance, budgeting, and communicating the financial implications of your decisions. The program expertly leads you through progressively more complex theories and View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
of the changes in jobs and wages.” Research lacking Despite such fears, there has been little concrete analysis of the impact private equity buyouts cause. In part, that’s because the financial transactions... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
government and business , international finance Interviews Güler Sabancı Suraj Srinivasan Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration Chair, MBA Elective Curriculum Research Interests : boards of directors , corporate governance , View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
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When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
test results, changing market conditions, deteriorating financials of the host company, or escalating project costs. Krieger chose to focus on drug development, in part, because in the United States companies follow a well-defined,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2017
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Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
suitcases at the airport. But now agencies are finding that subtle “nudges” can motivate behavior much better than ads, fines, or deadlines. Nudges, or small changes to the context in which decisions are made, are the subject of a new View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Feb 2020
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What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
Jeff told her he’d found a local professor who was letting him experiment with airplane wings and friction and drag.” Flash forward to today. Amazon is not only one of the world’s most powerful and innovative companies, but one of the most secretive. View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
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On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
fruitful streak came to an abrupt halt with the United States financial crash in the fall of 2008. Target was hit hard—much harder, in fact, than Walmart. Five years later the company was still struggling. With more than 1,800 stores and... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
(iStockphoto/visualspace) When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells how the company’s ad algorithm—the heart of its financial success—was revamped, here’s what he says: One Friday afternoon in May 2002, (company co-founder) Larry Page was... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Teixeira%20et%20al%20(2014)%20Television%20Advertising%20and%20Online%20Shopping_7d5c54e1-fd1b-4dcc-bd41-06e2978d4f23.pdf Working Papers The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
The framework has two parts—a business analysis and a personal analysis—each comprised of a set of yes/no questions for critical assessment criteria. The note also offers perspectives on entrepreneurship, observations about combining an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect
my undergrad years that being a physician might not necessarily be the path I wanted to take into health care,” Mathur says.) Today, Model is head of financial planning and analysis at Agios Pharmaceuticals,... View Details
- 2010
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Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America
Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-047, November 2010.
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Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details