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- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
that are largely diversifiable for risks that are highly systematic, or linked to events in the economy. As a result, ratings of structured finance products, which make no distinction between the different sources of default risk, are... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
color, diversifying boards, and leveraging diversity in organizations, as well as one called Thrive, which is designed to encourage career advancement for underrepresented minorities with 5 to 7 years of experience (with an emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
Blakeman says. A pitch to the right person at the right time at a bar led to a $100,000 angel investment. Diversifying his business, Blakeman started to work with prisons to put his search tools into the hands of inmates before their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
implications for leaders in three distinct areas. First, he stresses, managers should not assume that conventional wisdom based on contemporary U.S. experience will transfer to developing countries unaltered. For example, highly View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
weighs four options: continue expanding internationally to the U.S. and other distant markets, buy an ownership stake in Istanbul's other remaining airport, diversify into related businesses, or seek out large infrastructure projects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
find that diversified firms increased in value relative to single-segment firms during the crisis, a result that is not driven by the endogeneity of either financing constraints or firms' diversification choices. We also find that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
or their parents. If 10 percent of the people they spoke to tell more people, it can become a true change factor,” she says. “Awareness is the first step.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity HBS Addresses Racial Equity Alumni Work to Reverse Bias... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
developed an Executive Education program, Creating Corporate Advantage, and an elective MBA course based on this framework. Also in corporate strategy, Assistant Professor Tarun Khanna is studying the corporate strategy of diversified... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
companies that would eventually become big successes in the 1960s, including ACNielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox. During those years, as DLJ began to diversify by managing corporate pension funds in its Alliance Capital Management unit... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analyzed. The case serves as a vehicle to explain why diversified business groups are so important in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
will illustrate the need to geographically diversify social spending. I want to point out also that this may have social implications that have not yet been systematically explored. Given the continuing trends in large-scale mergers and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
preferences for unbundling among agencies and their clients. Using microdata collected by the US Census Bureau from 1982 to 2007, the researchers found that agencies were more likely to unbundle if they were large and diversified in their... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
environmental functions throughout the investment process. Some of the specific questions examined in the case are as follows: With a more diversified investor base, how could the firm balance the different expectations of investors and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
companies are under increased pressure to diversify their boards in order to include more minorities, women, and social activists. While shaking up the historical old boys' board networks may be good for balance, Kaufman observes that it... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
if the firm held a diversified equity portfolio like the Standard & Poor's 500. Assets with only passive risks are typically zero-net-present-value investments. Q: Why does the required amount of equity cushion that a company should... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
After college, Ramirez planned to attend law school and took a proactive approach to crafting her career trajectory. Goal-oriented by nature and encouraged by her parents, she joined an enrichment program with Boston Lawyers Group, an organization dedicated to helping... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
first interviewees in Argentina and Chile were from business cultures which were discrete and did not welcome publicity. Our initial target was to transform research on business in emerging markets by providing a wholly new source of empirical data. As we View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
been destined for mutual funds is not coming in because a portion of the undecided investor population is choosing instead to try trading stocks online." But for the most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of View Details