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- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
energy investment group. Those two seemingly separate worlds coalesced into one; I was able to use the tool kit I’d built over the years from my private sector experience in consulting and traditional banking in a space where I felt I was having a View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
photo by Stu Rosner Food allergies affect 30 million Americans and one in 12 children, sometimes triggering life-threatening reactions. Yet there are no approved FDA treatments or cures. These sobering facts became alarmingly real to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the ultimate result being a $40 million deficit. The district had already been placed on financial watch, with the very real possibility of a state takeover looming. Cognetti had been reading about the school district’s woes in the local... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund," Charles Broming expressed the hope that "money management will become another technical job and compensation will reflect its real added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration between the partners with implications for the theory and practice... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
unique characteristics that differentiate them from for-profit concerns: The real value creators for nonprofits are the dispersed units, where money is raised and good deeds accomplished. With for-profits, headquarters is usually where... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
do they have more time to experience this content?" What does this bode for the future of economic theory and management education? Paula Thornton offered this opinion: "If there were to be a new discipline, it would be one that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
government-imposed investment guidelines similar to those in Mexico, whether the money is publicly or privately managed. Several questioned whether the framing of the challenge that the column posed was even correct. In Bittner's words, the View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
keeping certain items in your home. Or you may have healthy food options nearby your office, but not close enough to your home to grab a quick lunch. “Stock up on the food and beverage items you’ll need so that you can maintain your... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management - Course Catalog
meeting in person, with a Zoom option still provided for mentors who wish to visit remotely and students who may need to be physically absent. "Mini office hours" with mentors are still offered via Zoom - students post their person Zoom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
mostly from high-tech and life-science start-ups, show that 73 percent of teams decide on terms in the venture’s first month, and the majority finalizes the split at that point. But there’s a real danger in splitting equity too soon and... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
used to keeping certain items in your home. Or you may have healthy food options nearby your office, but not close enough to your home to grab a quick lunch. “Stock up on the food and beverage items you’ll need so that you can maintain... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Many of the women specified a desire to work for organizations whose goals were compatible with their own values and to have more control over the calendar and the clock when they return to the workplace. Since Charting Your Course is designed to help alumnae assess... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
Abstract This paper decomposes the excess return predictability in inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds into effects from liquidity, market segmentation, real interest rate risk, and inflation risk. We estimate a large and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
concern of firms financing biotechnology research is that the R&D firms might use the funding to subsidize other projects or substitute one project for another. We develop a model based on the property-rights theory of the firm that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
recent firm performance? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/say-on-pay-qualcomm-inc-shareholders-vote-maybe-in-2012/an/114005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-047 Aqua Bounty Valuation of a pre-revenue biotech company at IPO using probability trees and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
expenditures for telecommunications and information technology. One option is to hand over management of its telecom and IT networks to its vendors. Explores the pros and cons of such an outsourcing arrangement for a company in an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Weight Loss: A Randomized, Controlled Trial," published in the June 2011 edition of Journal of General Internal Medicine. TIP #3- Fill your backpack with rocks. A research team from Harvard and the University of Central Florida tested the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
model of invention as a process of recombinant variation and selection. Our contributions are to highlight the skewed outcome distributions resulting from evolutionary search and to develop theory that can be tested by modeling the higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace