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Best Paper Prize in Asset Management from the Midwest Finance Association for "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" with Umang Khetan, Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2025 Western... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
use the right approach at the right time and change as the situation demands is going to be tough. Not everybody can do it. That's going to distinguish the true leaders from people who are capable but not leaders." Targeting Talent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
offering them incentives or deals to stay before they leave. “Focusing on retaining higher-spending customers, even if they aren’t as likely to leave, can increase the total profit a company can reap.” As Gupta describes in Managing Churn to Maximize Profits—a new... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16
recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into host-country labor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
he continued, businesses can be 'raced' by drivers whose peripheral vision has failed. "They could see the clear track ahead of them as they initially led their markets but failed to notice the competitor coming up on the inside... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
percent of market value. The payout rate for fiscal 2021 met that target at 5.2 percent, consistent with the prior year. The utilization of a payout formula means that the annual payout rate is generally... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “We run A/B testing around price, around pictures, around menu... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
that provided subsidies for low-carbon production, and by the Netherlands adopting the EU’s revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), which established regulatory targets for clean transport fuels. Interestingly, the breakeven carbon... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
that expansions abroad reduce a firm's domestic activity, instead suggesting the opposite. The Finance Function in a Global Corporation Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008) Abstract As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
startup to tackle product accessibility for the disability community. Many products and websites today are inaccessible to people with disabilities despite over 30 years of the Americans Disabilities Act which prohibits disability discrimination. Very few of the... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Consistent with the long-term goal of preserving the endowment’s value in real terms (after inflation) and generating a predictable stream of available income, the University’s targeted annual payout ratio is 5.0 to 5.5 percent of View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
pharma – but the tides are changing. The underserved nature of the rare disease population combined with increases in federal funding, biotech and medical advancements are spurring optimism for the future. Growth in the markets for... View Details
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
the risks of failure. Adding to this concern is that even as the number of mega audit firms has contracted from eight in the 1980s to four today, their combined market share remains formidable, especially in the United States. The... View Details
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Development Center, and advising the student marketing association. In 1965, Fitzhugh moved to Pepsi-Cola, where he led the development of targeted marketing strategies.... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old products View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
target marketing as vice president for special markets. Click on photos above to learn more Between 1915 and 1930 approximately 12 African Americans attended HBS. They forged successful careers in insurance,... View Details