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- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
difficult for the Frenchco workers than working with English-speaking colleagues in Poland, the Netherlands, or Spain, Neeley found. In one interview a Frenchco worker said: "A real English person is in a stronger position, and I... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
We're not providing a digital subscription, we're providing a subscription to an actual product, although it's invisible, in the real world and that means that the amount that people are willing to pay is much higher. We take a 19% fee on... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
whole story. Real interest rates have also experienced a secular decline and a subsequent sharp reversal which cannot be attributed to inflation. Their evolution suggests that other important factors related to View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
School, is an expert on global supply chain and co-wrote an HBS case study, revised in 2019, on Dollar General, one of the largest dollar store operators, shortly before it was acquired by New York investment firm KKR. Shih discusses the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
journals. “Academic research can be helpful, but it tends to be overly complex, hard to digest, and not backed by real quantitative insights from customer populations or engagements,” says Neale-May, executive director of the Chief... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
of Toby, who can call up the major possible partners for your company and say 'These guys are real and they're strong and you should work with them,'" said Rowe, "that has such a tremendous impact on what you're doing.... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
the U.S. medical profession are still large. In India, the same depth of pool of engineering and mathematical talent for software, offshoring, and outsourcing is there for medicine, too. In the 1950s and '60s, the Indian government View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
hour-by-hour calendar that I stick to pretty religiously. I prioritize ruthlessly and make sure if I go to an event after hours that it is worth being away from my family. Make sure you take time for yourself. It doesn't have to be everyday, let's be View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
century? Today, the world’s largest taxi company (Uber) owns no cars; the world’s largest provider of accommodations (Airbnb) owns no real estate; and the world’s largest retailer (Alibaba) owns no inventory. Modern platform thinking has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
financial returns." She notes that while Lerner "didn't agree, he gave me a nice grade on the project." The paper formed not only her thinking, but became a blueprint for her career. She has spent almost all of it consulting to, operating, or View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Jerry Murphy at The Davis Companies
underwriting, and closing of new equity and high-yield debt investments on behalf of our latest real estate private equity fund. My area of focus is residential investment... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
investment banks, and consultancies that once shunned the practice and from the increasing influence of proxy advisory firms. But it was the many institutional investors who eventually embraced activists in their search for better returns... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
subprime market, that "somebody else" was the lender. If a borrower defaulted, the bank recouped its investment by foreclosing on the home. The house represented collateral that, ideally, would reimburse the lender. Thanks to... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
tradition in architecture when it gave him its Stanford White Award. In his current role of directing real estate investments for his family’s Samson Investment Partners,... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
You can see the subtle changes when a neighborhood is on its way up—streets get cleaner, building facades improve, new businesses start moving in. Across an entire city, however, it’s harder to track such changes, to understand in real... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
States. The real lesson of this experience is that investing directly in corporate assets is a very different experience, and creates a distinct return profile, than investing... View Details