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12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

analysis. Then, you'll learn how to apply these tools in a variety of decision contexts, including securities analysis, credit analysis, corporate financing policies analysis, mergers and acquisitions analysis, and governance and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An additional explanation, considered... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

Public company shareholders have long complained that corporate boards don't always act in the best interest of their investors. But does the addition of a shareholder-sponsored board member increase the market value of the firm? The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Katie Rae Mulvey Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Katie Rae Mulvey, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation... View Details

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Charmian Love Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Quantum Theory & the Rise of the B Corporation Charmian Love Kim Coupounas 19 Jul 2018... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Project Runway

Stacey Estrella (MBA ’93), a corporate communications executive at a Silicon Valley software firm, started sewing for fun just two years ago. But her beautifully crafted dresses and suits helped her beat out thousands of other hopefuls to... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

01 Oct 2002
News

New HBSAA Board Members

'63) Oslo, Norway Senior Partner Hoegh Invest A/S Michael C. Kwee (36th PMD) Hong Kong, China Chairman and CEO PAMA Group Sanford J. Sacks (MBA '66) Scarsdale, New York First Vice President Ambac Assurance Corporation Saquib H. Shirazi... View Details

14 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

anniversary of the first women to enter Harvard Business School's two-year MBA program. Differing Takes On Quotas Last year Groysberg teamed up with researcher Deborah Bell on a comprehensive survey of corporate directors around the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

allows them to function in an environment characterized by risk, instability, and the unknown. Indeed, many collaborations evolve in rather unpredictable ways, depending to a great extent on trust and confidence. Pfizer Executive Vice President for View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

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Kim Coupounas Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Quantum Theory & the Rise of the B Corporation Charmian Love Kim Coupounas 19 Jul 2018... View Details

Career Coach

Ryan Kim

independent sponsor private equity firm and completed a self-funded search to buy a regional automotive installation services business which he operated as President. Prior to that, Ryan worked in large and mid cap private equity, led View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Search Fund; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)

01 Sep 2012
News

An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the concept and rise of View Details

Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
News

Faculty Books

the most experienced voices at HBS—Bill George, Krishna Palepu, Rakesh Khurana, and Lorsch himself—to address the challenges of governance and the role of corporate boards in wrestling with critical issues like CEO performance and... View Details

17 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Thinking of Joining a Board? Christiana Smith Shi (MBA 1986) Shares Her Experience

events, travel when and where I want, and smell a few roses along the way. I highly recommend it! To learn more about Christiana's insights into serving on a corporate board, view her presentation, Corporate... View Details

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

owners had seen,” says Edeburn, “was that some of what were considered to be the jewel businesses were either bought up by corporate acquirers or by private equity firms that didn’t have as much of a sense of stewardship with the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

desired by the customer has been an important source of confidence for the future. What has also remained constant throughout Bajaj's forty years at BAL has been the company's commitment to corporate social responsibility. Through... View Details

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

venture capital, private equity, public markets, and alternate investments through corporate partnerships. The team is thrilled to be partnering with many corporate sponsors this year including American... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library

of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. from 1995 to 2000 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2003. Early corporate filings for Goodyear are part of Baker's corporate reports collection . Farouk... View Details

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

PublicationsThe Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Summer 2018
Article

Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating

By: Willy C. Shih

Knowledge embedded within state-of-the-art production and design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through... View Details

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