Diversified - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

01 Jun 1997
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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

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

diversified organizations may work poorly in advanced economies like the United States, but they sometimes deliver superior value in certain emerging markets, where their scope allows them to leverage their own resources to compensate for... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

institutions that are driving our economy,” Rice says. He isn’t stopping there, though, because he sees diversifying MBA programs and leading employers as critical levers in a broader effort. “Our model can move the needle on... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

fully realized and are stronger in mature, slow growth industries. Prices do not fall, however, when the acquirer is diversifying into a new product market. This direct evidence of real changes induced by merger activity is consistent... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

2001, real estate has become a legitimate asset class and a good diversifier from stocks and bonds. Second, with graying populations in the West and Japan, real estate is particularly appreciated because it is a strong generator of... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

firms. They have to find partners that truly believe in long-term, committed relationships, not those who are looking to diversify their risks. On average, returns have been poor, but returns of particular winners have been enormous. A... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

changing. Businesses that are slow to understand the value of a diverse workforce through all levels of the organization will be left behind.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity HBS Addresses Racial Equity The Value of Difficult Conversations View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

theoretical and empirical investigation of the risks of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and... View Details

17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007

innovation-to-productivity studies. Business Groups in Emerging Markets: Paragons or Parasites? Authors:Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh Periodical:Journal of Economic Literature 45, no. 2 (June 2007): 331-372 Abstract Diversified business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect our student body. Since... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

apart from previous books on the subject. The authors aim to strengthen scholarly and policy understanding of Turkish capitalism and the diversified business groups which dominate the economy by providing a deep analysis of the evolution... View Details

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

sold for profit. Big institutions with long investment horizons, such as sovereign wealth funds, family offices, pensions, and endowments, put money into PE funds to diversify their portfolios. It’s a very different industry today ...... View Details

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

whose campus occupies 26 buildings surrounded by 800 acres of forest on the northern side of an Appalachian mountain ridge. As he walks the grounds, Marietta points to evidence of what a thriving, diversified economy in eastern Kentucky... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-020.pdf The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification Authors: Venkat Kuppuswamy, George Serafeim, and Belén Villalonga Abstract Using a large sample of diversified firms... View Details