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- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2016
- Article
Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?
By: Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
Financial constraints are fundamental to empirical research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in fact behave... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance
Farre-Mensa, Joan, and Alexander Ljungqvist. "Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?" Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 2 (February 2016): 271–308.
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2015
- Case
Brentwood Associates: Exiting Zoës Kitchen
By: Joan Farre-Mensa and Stephanie Siu
The case discusses the trade-offs associated with the different exit options that private equity firm Brentwood Associates contemplated for its investment in Zoës Kitchen during the summer of 2013: an IPO, a sale to a strategic or financial acquirer, or waiting a few... View Details
Farre-Mensa, Joan, and Stephanie Siu. "Brentwood Associates: Exiting Zoës Kitchen." Harvard Business School Case 815-102, January 2015.
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- March 2015
- Case
Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: A Founding Story (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joan Farre-Mensa and Christopher Payton
Ghosh, Shikhar, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Christopher Payton. "Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: A Founding Story (A)." Harvard Business School Case 815-119, March 2015.
- February 2015
- Article
Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?
By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market listed firms. To do so, we compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification... View Details
Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist. "Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?" Review of Financial Studies 28, no. 2 (February 2015): 342–390.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, New Jersey, garden... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Joan E. Ricart, and Jorge Tarzijan Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701873.do February 2015 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Improving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2015
- News
Seattle and Cleveland Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Joan P. Schaefer (MBA 1997) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Cleveland Regional Event, September 17, 2015. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from the Seattle, Washington and Cleveland, Ohio regions gathered on September... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
centerpiece event of the WSA, a fifteen-year-old organization whose mission is to foster a supportive environment for women at the Business School and to provide services that help them to succeed as students and in their careers. The event is cosponsored View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964. Interview by Jeffrey C. Cruikshank, January 9, 2008. HBS Archives. Baker Library Historical Collections. Harvard Business School. Joan Colligan (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964) The program, as... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
committee, led by Joan McCabe (MBA '81), offered sound advice and counsel as we grappled with the difficulty of canceling the conference in Buenos Aires and is monitoring the progress of the Shanghai and... View Details
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Credits – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Library Editing: Karen Bailey, Katherine Fox, Joan K. O'Donnell Exhibition Design: Chris Danemayer, proun Design Exhibition staff: Rachel Wise, Priscilla Anderson, Martha Kearsley, Melissa Murphy Print Design: Eleanor Bradshaw Mary Lee... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as it was View Details
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Introduction | Baker Library
business education for women at Harvard University from the founding of the one-year certificate program at Radcliffe College in 1937 to the integration of women into Harvard Business School (HBS) by 1970. Illustrating the evolution of... View Details