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  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

businesses over the long run: companies such as Tata Group, founded in India in 1868, or Mexican bakery Grupo Bimbo, started in 1945. What sets these firms apart? What can leaders in developed markets learn... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

database of startups and investors, to analyze collaboration patterns. The authors also sorted through press releases, news articles, and regulatory filings to augment and verify the data. Of View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

disproportionate stock price hit to an earnings miss reflects that informational problem. The promise of private equity involves solving that gap between owners and managers. Buybacks must be interpreted in that context as either... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Fast Answer

Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

firms Key members of the management team Investment bank league tables   Bloomberg
Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2024
  • News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes

By: Hise O. Gibson, Ryan W. Buell and Prithwiraj Choudhury
We study how “contextual specialization,” the act of focusing workers’ organizational tasks within a particular locational context, and “contextual non-specialization,” the practice of diversifying workers’ organizational tasks among multiple locational contexts,... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Performance; Experience and Expertise; Selection and Staffing; Strength and Weakness; Personal Development and Career
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  • 2013
  • Article

Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different are Japanese and American Founders?

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek and Sang-Hoon Kim
Purpose: There is lack of research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Entrepreneurs; Japan; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Japan; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Mark Schwartz

for new challenges. Following a yearlong sabbatical, he joined the legendary hedge fund and private equity firm founded by financier and philanthropist George Soros. The View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • Research Summary

AIDS in Africa: Life, Death and Property Rights

By: Debora L. Spar
In the final years of the twentieth century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--the plague of AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought... View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Exercise

Raptor Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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  • March 2009
  • Article

Applicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis

By: Juan Alcacer, Michelle Gittelman and Bhaven Sampat
Prior art patent citations have become a popular measure of patent quality and knowledge flow between firms. Interpreting these measurements is complicated, in some cases, because prior art citations are added by patent examiners as well as by patent applicants. The... View Details
Keywords: Citations; Patents; Knowledge Sharing; Measurement and Metrics; Quality; United States
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  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • July 2022
  • Article

Private Equity and COVID-19

By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Private Equity; Management; Investment Portfolio; Performance; Decision Making; Value Creation
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  • November 2020
  • Article

Taxation in Matching Markets

By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,... View Details
Keywords: Matching Markets; Labor Markets; Taxation; Labor; Markets
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    When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

    New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don't yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
    • 09 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 9

    theoretical extensions of the proposed integrated theory. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-056.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product Author:Deishin Lee Publication:Manufacturing and Service... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Aug 1998
    • News

    Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

    and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now... View Details
    Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
    • 22 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 22

    public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, and private firms are an established policy tool around the world for the delivery of social or public... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Nov 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Do We Chase Stars?

    stars, Groysberg says the evidence "strongly suggests the wisdom of hiring from firms with similar orientations and lesser or equivalent quality" that are less... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • Research Summary

    Buyers, Sellers, Manufacturers in China’s Emerging Market around 1900

    Ever since the economic reforms in the post-Mao period China’s economy as an emerging market has attracted much interest. However, we tend to forget that China was already an emerging market at the turn of the 19th century, if not earlier. This... View Details