Publications

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

extraction, and increased refinancing mortgagors’ consumption by an additional $76 billion. This de facto allocation of credit across mortgage market segments, combined with sharp bunching around GSE eligibility cutoffs, establishes an... View Details

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and product strategy, bringing change in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

investing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees and contractors to implement it. The market capitalization of the company dropped over $100 billion in one day, now roughly back to the pre-crisis level. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

01 Sep 2010
News

Letters to the Editor

Wells states, “I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or terrorist financing, or secreted money from blatant bribes.” Maybe so. But the ethics of tax cheats are... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

June 2024
Case

Building Innovation at VINCI

By: Dennis Campbell, Aluna Wang and Carlota Moniz

This case study explores how the VINCI Group, a French multinational operating in concessions, energy, and construction, bolstered awareness and adoption rates of new technologies within the organization. Through its separate innovation hub, Leonard, VINCI aimed to... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

20,000 SIM cards at an average of $100 each. (Roshan was second to enter the market after Afghan Wireless; it now has four providers nipping at its heels in a highly competitive market.) Today, the company connects all of Afghanistan’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2008
News

Balanced Equation

husband and two children across the country for a job at a no-name Internet start-up. What changed your mind? I spent the day at eBay. I learned that users were deeply dedicated to the site, which had a compound monthly growth rate of 70 percent. It was a View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

July 2024
Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
Case

Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal

In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

(in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation, then media at BBDO. When we moved to New York City, I was offered a position as an account executive at BBDO, but I heard that the previous woman in... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

and interviews with 91 American media members, this book discusses journalistic values in the digital age, taking a hard look at the ethical challenges of the job while offering hope for the ways journalism can make a difference in... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

development of community standards and a system of accountability for students, faculty, and staff. We also have launched a distinguished speaker series and have plans under way for additional workshops and panels. Like IT, I would like to see learning and discussion... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

exploded, the strength of the apprenticeship process has weakened, and partner quality has likely been diluted. Turbulence in the tech and private equity labor markets have also closed off opportunities for consultants wishing to leave,... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

occur differently in countries around the world. In his research, West investigates how a nation’s institutional systems may either facilitate or retard the development of biotech as an industry. Labor and capital market structures and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

February 2021
Teaching Plan

Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to the case “Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?” HBS 820-098. The case explores the tension between two different financing and expansion plans for a startup, and explores issues related to business model pivots and industry... View Details