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- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
number of days a loan remains in syndication. Using market-level and cross-sectional variation in time on the market, we find that a shorter syndication period is associated with a lower final interest rate. The relation is robust to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
714-510 Health City Cayman Islands Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
takes months or years to build up. Yet Frances amassed it within minutes. How?” “For leaders, earning trust is essential to gaining (and retaining) followers. It often takes months or years to build up. Yet Frances amassed it within minutes. How?” Second, she signaled... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
researchers collected time-use information through daily phone calls with each CEO's personal assistant (PA) or with the CEO himself (99 percent of the sample consisted of male CEOs). On the first day of the week, a researcher would call... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
States with other parts of the world and the voice we have as NGOs," she said. "I felt I had to speak out on behalf of the Afghan people." "Communication really became the name of the game," agreed Peter Bell, president and CEO of CARE... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
board examinations. Out of 30 students, 3 had failed. The memory of one of them, Akash, still haunts me today. The failure that day wasn’t just Akash’s. For 10 years, we had promised his poor parents that if they sent Akash to school, he... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
frenetically try to meet as many people as possible. During our first few days on campus, Director of Admissions Dee Leopold urged my class not to network – i.e., don’t fixate on developing a large rolodex of contacts but rather develop... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
other leaders. On the first full day in Lagos, the School hosted the Fung Global Research Symposium and a reception for some 100 business, academic, and government leaders. Faculty members presented current research relevant to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
direction until after my divorce and remarriage in 1970. I finally found my stride working in internal audit, and after much moving around both domestically and overseas, I settled down in northeastern Illinois. My wife, DD, and I began foster View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
requiring workers to self-certify through an app that they are symptom-free each morning. Statistics: Is there evidence that it’s working? Finally, employers will want to keep track of incremental sick days and health View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
related activities). We consider whether there are similar benefits to related diversification within an operating unit and examine the mechanism that generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Teresa Amabile argues that average folks deserve careful investigation, especially in the age of user innovation and crowdsourced problem-solving, when big ideas routinely come from the masses. The article appears in a forthcoming issue... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
include a "powerful board" (Ravi Mistry), careful listening on the part of leadership (Dayvon McCarrell, C. J. Cullinane), transparency (Joanna), measurement of project failure rates (Steve Romero), surrounding oneself with... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
Fourth, Shackleton made his men believe that they could do it, that they could all get back to safety alive. How did he do this, create such self-belief in his team and thus make them part of the solution? Partly by his showing up every View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
Miller. Here was the number one male skier in the world making it clear to one and all that he just didn't care or worse, was doing his best to do badly. That really hurts. He went from anointed to disjointed. Q: What do you think of the... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within hospitals, we first examine the relationship between a hospital's level of specialization in cardiovascular care and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
in a world where patents can be practically replicated through careful innovation. On a third front, however, Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak argue in What's the Big Idea? that the successful implementation of management concepts can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
University of Illinois, Netscape became embroiled in a messy intellectual-property dispute. Despite these challenges, on its first day of trading, Netscape soared to a market capitalization of $2.1 billion. Why did Andreessen and Clark... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 13 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India
certainly not something we expected when we arrived. Yet behind the veneer, the sobering truth remains: the Trombay Power Plant burns over 5,000 tons of coal daily, emitting between 12–15 megatons of CO each day along with other... View Details