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  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

  PublicationsInflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization Authors:Nancy O.Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas Publication:In Investing in What Works for America's Communities. San Francisco: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

several important aspects of entrepreneurship like investment structure, fundraising, and valuation. Entrepreneurship Essentials covered these topics well and I was surprised at some of the additional takeaways I had. Maggie Robb Head of... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

active participation of prominent African alumni, including Hakeem Belo-Osagie (HBS ’80), as well as others with expertise in the field, "Africa Rising" will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

wanted to go back to Brazil because at that time the country was really booming," he says. He was soon put in charge of developing the bank's leasing company. During his 10-year career at Unibanco, he quickly rose through the company, running parts of the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 04 May 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

(MBA/MPP 2017) and Taniel Chan (MBA/MPP 2017) are invested in understanding how social change can be driven through public-private partnerships. Being the tremendous multi-taskers they are, they’re also eager to help prospective students... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

latter's poor behavior in other relationships is unlikely to have much marginal effect. We test the resulting hypotheses by examining how a venture capital firm's reputation for unreliability, triggered by repeated withdrawals from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2016 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Activism; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Offer; Corporate Strategy; Rail Transportation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; United States; Canada
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  • 24 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

to provide critical care to patients. “Donors don’t just want to buy medical equipment and supplies. They want to buy outcomes,” says Dr. Ryan McBain, the project lead at PIH. “They want to make sure that the money they are investing is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

headquarters are large (255 median staff for a 20,000 FTE MNC) and European headquarters smaller (124). Implications are drawn that countries will lose activities if domestic firms are acquired by foreign MNCs, and that MNCs need to allow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

2022. Is this the start of a new trend, with parallels to 1970s stagflation, or an opportunity to find bargains? Our panel of alumni active in investment management will share their insights about current... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

investments in infrastructure and targeted regulatory reforms. Only then will it become profitable for companies to make the investments in activities with higher levels of... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with similar ratios. We then build a continuous-time model of investment and merger activity combining search, scarcity, and asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to the formal banking system. In the period 2000 through 2005, there were approximately 30 million checking accounts reportedly closed for excessive overdrafting.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive Financials 5 Year Summary From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials 5... View Details
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

the writing of popular film scripts like The Matrix or Star Wars. Character behaviors, actions, and motivations hook the interest of readers at all levels, regardless of their professional experience with IT, while the plot sets up a series of expectations that keep... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration. “No wonder these businesses end up receiving rave reviews and loyal customers.” "If a US company that ranked 50th today jumped to 40th next year, its return on View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 18 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

Seventeen years after the dawn of social media marketing, this medium continues to be an intriguing puzzle—a place where brands are investing more time and money, but are still struggling to determine what works well and where the returns... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology
  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

attrition, or even desired behaviors at work, than merely to measure employee engagement.” Gregory Enjalbert offered a more personal perspective: “Engaging people is therefore very much about talking to them and listening actively to them... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman