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  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

risks? Robert C. Merton: The measurement and management of risk permeates all corporate activities and thus it is central to strategic decisions as well as tactical ones. The management of financial risks is not just a matter of "protecting" the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

    James E. Stowers, Jr.

    investment of $107,000, Stowers built American Century into a premier investment house with over $80 billion in managed assets. His firm has consistently been named one the best managed firms in the... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 19 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

    Accounting Review Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance By: Rouen, Ethan Abstract—I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 20 Jan 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: January 20

    show that overall creditor recovery rates are higher, and unsecured creditor recoveries and post-bankruptcy survival rates are not different when bankrupt firms sell businesses as going concerns. Download working paper: View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2006 (Revised March 2007)
    • Background Note

    Introduction to Global Strategy

    By: Jordan I. Siegel
    Examines when it is profitable for a company to position part or all of its activity set across national borders and how a cross-border business is successfully designed and managed. View Details
    Keywords: Cross-border Business; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace
    How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book. This note and case series enables readers to conduct... View Details
    Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Valuation; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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    • Web

    GlobalData Disruptor | Baker Library

    services, and healthcare sectors. Areas of focus include: artificial intelligence, blockchain, connected devices and IoT, digital business, robotics and drones, security tech, and more. Disruptor offers: Coverage of 40,000 startup companies and 14,000 venture capital... View Details
    • 26 Feb 2020
    • News

    Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus

    As reported in the Boston Globe, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) and his firm Moderna Therapeutics are working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. Vials of its vaccine, the company told... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2008
    • News

    Supporting the Troops

    (MBA 11/’47), cofounder of the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, served in the Navy in World War II and says the GI Bill helped him earn degrees from Swarthmore College, HBS, and Columbia Law School. “I benefited tremendously,”... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
    • 19 Apr 2016
    • News

    LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility

    towards commercialization. While many businesses enter the Challenge each year and benefit from the mentoring, workshops, and judging process, the winner of the Bertarelli Foundation Grand Prize receives a $40,000 award that moves the View Details
    Keywords: Blavatnik; Scientific Research and Development Services
    • 01 Jun 2009
    • News

    Sounds Like a Plan

    BRENNEMAN: A fast way to make money. Rigorous, thorough analysis is the precursor of an effective business plan, right? Maybe not. In an interview about leadership in the New York Times (March 15, 2009), Greg Brenneman (MBA ’88), chairman of private-equity View Details
    Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation
    • 01 Sep 2005
    • News

    Upstart Startup

    rainmaking in New York. The company is a committed meritocracy, which can be distinctive in the Indian setting. “We have the best people, be they from the Brahmin caste or the lowest ‘untouchable’ caste,” Sigelman noted. He added that, looking beyond its own humble... View Details
    • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 12 Jun 2019
    • HBS Online

    HBS Online Disruptive Strategy

    Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. June 12, 2019 - July 10, 2019 View Details
    • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 03 Apr 2019
    • HBS Online

    HBS Online Disruptive Strategy

    Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: April 3, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
    • January 2011
    • Case

    Shar Matin (A)

    By: David A. Thomas and Elisa Farri
    The head of the subsidiary of a US company faced the decision to present an aggressive growth plan despite his CFO's lack of support. View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; United States
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    • September 2010 (Revised April 2012)
    • Case

    Better World Books

    By: Michael I. Norton, Fiona Wilson, Jill Avery and Thomas J. Steenburgh
    Better World Books, a young start-up, provides a socially conscious alternative to Amazon, collecting and selling used books to keep them out of the waste stream, while donating a portion of their profits to support global literacy efforts. The case presents an... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Online Technology; Retail Industry
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    • 22 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

    firms invest in when emissions are costly? With the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme in the EU, California's Assembly Bill 32, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the northeastern US, and now Australia's Clean Energy Bill,... View Details
    • 01 Jun 1998
    • News

    How the Ron Brown Award Was Born

    leaders established a board that included McKinsey managing partner Rajat K. Gupta (MBA '73), whose firm provided a pro bono study of the issue. "When they realized the extent of our experience in such matters," Cavanagh says, "they asked... View Details
    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How Relationships are Building Biotech

    early stages of entrepreneurial firms and new industries. Her new chapter builds on a huge research project she began several years ago with Ranjay Gulati, a professor of organizational behavior at the Kellogg Graduate School of... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
    • 25 Feb 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

    workplace friendships, firms can minimize the psychological costs of homesickness, which increase depending on how far the employee is from home, according to Choudhury’s study, Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz