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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
control rights and cash-flow rights in the borrowing firms exacerbates potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders, thereby increasing credit risk and monitoring needs. Consequently, lenders form syndicates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Clemens Raemy
Television, we asked for a monitor on the school’s behalf. In India, things usually move slowly, but just three days later, the school got its TV.” Clemens expects his business interests to move rapidly as well. “After graduation, I’ll... View Details
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
already public acquirer - remains a critical step in corporate transformation by private equity investors and innovation by venture capitalists. Because public capital markets play such a key role in the global economy, government regulators and policy makers... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
front of a faux dashboard. A large monitor simulated the view through a windshield as a car drove on a quiet suburban street. On one side of the road, a woman walked casually down the bike lane. On the other, a young boy with a backpack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
performance, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth. The balanced scorecard is a practical management tool that marshals the value-added potential of people throughout the organization toward the achievement of long-term goals while providing a... View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
you note in the book, only 10 percent of the world's population live in countries considered totally democratic. Does democracy need a marketing campaign? If so, who should run it? A: No one is marketing democracy. The Carter Center deserves credit for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
hardware or software that filters communications or facilitates their monitoring to a government that is likely to use it for both purposes. For Yahoo and Google, among others, it gets even more complex. It is whether to: (1) comply with... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
change" as they proceed towards their goals. A good CEO is constantly monitoring progress and adjusting as the situation changes, he said, adding that CEOs must ignore the temptation to be so wedded to their own idea that they ignore... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest that the board itself had approved involving Andrew Fastow’s dual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which product developers have a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron's shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
get lawyers and, of course, international awareness of what was going on with the trial. And then after they were sentenced and sent to Siberian labor camps, the issue was clothing, food. Hiring local lawyers so that they were monitored... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
comes from the International Development Finance Corporation, where she projected and monitored the economic impacts of more than $6 billion of emerging market investments in sectors such as infrastructure, agriculture, and financial... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
long demonstrated their dedication to educational advancement and the pursuit of knowledge, we share your concerns about the recently signed executive action regarding immigration. Offices across the University are closely monitoring the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
only been done in rats, at Massachusetts General Hospital.” After HBS, Green worked at Monitor for a time, in which capacity he advised South Africa’s African National Congress, among other assignments. In 1996, he and a new management... View Details
- Profile
Sheila Marcelo
consulting and business,” says Marcelo, who applied to HBS during her first year of law school. “Grad school was not an easy time for me,” she reflects. “I was juggling being a mother and wife, working [for Monitor Group], and studying,”... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
maintains minimal inventory, delivering finished units in a matter of days. Dell's direct-access model makes extensive use of computer linkups and information shared among customers, suppliers, and the company itself in order to facilitate and View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Ernst & Young, or McKinsey should all get a shot at becoming candidates to run cities and districts with a history of corruption. Entities that are experts at municipal accounting, consulting to foreign governments, or providing services like procurement support and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
looks just like a video game screen. Votes are tabulated and then relayed through an offensive coordinator. “What Twitch offers is a level of interactivity in the stream that doesn’t really exist anywhere else,” Rottenberg says. “You can stream to a computer View Details