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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
responses that was universal across all firms was to deploy more of their own capital to seek higher returns. Derivative, mortgage, and private equity markets, to name three, were places were firms went to... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
them appear manipulative. Some children grow up to use these time-honored tactics in the workplace. For example, when a private equity firm negotiates with a major... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
shifts. Today, Pasta Cuisine employs approximately twenty workers; eight make up a “core” group that has been with the business for over ten years. In an industry with notoriously high turnover, developing strategies for hiring and... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
in the period of your life just before business school. Can you talk a little bit about the circumstances of your life at that time? And how did they lead you to this moment of discovery that you were suffering from an eating disorder? Lindsay Ronga: So I was working... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
findings of this project is the enormous readiness of many in the business community to roll up their sleeves and do things in their communities and companies to make America more competitive. JR: An... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
entrepreneur who initially thought he’d have a career in the private sector before pursuing academia. He spent the summer between his first and second years as an MBA working as a consultant and discovered he loved the process of... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
co-developed with the Business and Environment Initiative. SIPs are an important way for faculty to build out and test new materials and themes. As Professor Macomber said at the outset, “we don’t yet know the answers to many of the questions that will come View Details
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committee. Project work is designed to be of mutual value to students and the PE partner. Students can list the projects and the PE firm on their resumes upon the partner's review . The course is structured to expose students to the inner workings of View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
guide is intended for HBS students and ExEd participants who are using the Private Equity and Venture Capital Simulation. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
developed world, the developing world will almost entirely make up for that success and global emissions will be essentially flat out to 2050. I don’t think that fact is well understood.” Both Scott Jacobs and Girish Nadkarni agreed.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
cooperation of all our employees made the difference." Although he stepped down from IBM in 2002, Gerstner has not slowed his pace. In addition to serving as chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix it, the city View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
the private equity industry, he has one last opportunity to pitch the deal to Asdar Capital. If unsuccessful, the time on Sanankoua's exclusivity agreement with the owners will run out. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
a reasonable request and deliver it with a smile, hopefully you can keep the other person in the room and see what happens next." Mohan—former managing director and now senior advisor of $15 billion VC and private View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
construct," "build operate transfer," and other forms of public-private partnership. The handling of municipal solid waste takes up to 50% of the annual budget of many urban areas in the developing world. The ability to use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot of these private companies... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
market bubbles and frothy credit markets—and how those are different from equity market froth. Layne: How so? Greenwood: Frothy stock markets happen when people get excited about companies and are very focused on the potential upside.... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
contribute to what we call the psychology of price. You can take the very same physical price and break it up into parts, bundle it with other items, ask for payment early, or ask for payment late, and change consumers'' perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
private information is directionally strong, managers, at announcement, provide guidance and use language that points statistically in the opposite direction. This effect is more pronounced when, post-announcement, management insiders... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
This year is shaping up to be a critical one for electric vehicles—or EVs—say HBS alumni in the auto industry, with the newly released Chevy Bolt and Tesla’s own soon-to-be-released Model 3 promising to make EVs as affordable as... View Details