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- 2024
- Working Paper
Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Philipp Chvanov. "Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-066, January 2024.
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
great deal of comment,” said Levitt, who chaired the Marketing faculty from 1977 to 1985 and served as HBR editor from 1985 to 1989. He noted that he was “not at all surprised” that View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice, was a driving force in PELP's creation. He stresses that raising educational outcomes across the board is at the heart of View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
to independent makers and retailers among this generation? If so, can you quantify it? —Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) HUBERT: Distinctions like “corporate” versus “independent” reflect a mindset more characteristic of Generation X than the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
leaders and thousands of executives every year. Leadership is about getting results, and the School is on a great trajectory. The Importance of Engagement NN: One of View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
understand MPVs, discount rates, and CapEx; Business, Government & the International Economy helped me consider the regulatory and political elements of the market; and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
recent nationwide survey, my colleague Dan Ariely and I found that Americans drastically underestimated the level of wealth inequality in the United States, currently at levels not seen since View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks
CPG leader and retail start-up that taught me incredibly valuable business skills on a global scale. Great Fit for Big-DreamersToday at HBS, not only do I have the opportunity to learn through an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
to Levitt for that insight. “He had such great antennae. And he was brave. It takes courage to stick your chin out in the air and say this is what’s coming. I always wanted to be prepared for his class. Not... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
knowledge transfer. Experts can mentor novices, despite a very large gap in knowledge, if the experts are willing to coach and the novices can bear having their knowledge gap exposed. Some experts find View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
had much compunction about dispossessing Native Americans or each other. Sometimes they resorted to outright murder. The movement west constituted a great epic, but in its details was not a pretty story.... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Supplement
Jones Lang LaSalle (2012): Integrated Services and the Architecture of Complexity (D)
By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2008 and 2012. In 2008, in order to strengthen the firm's brokerage team, JLL merged with The Staubach Company, a real estate services provider with a first-rate... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America
Gulati, Ranjay, and Luciana Silvestri. "Jones Lang LaSalle (2012): Integrated Services and the Architecture of Complexity (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-117, March 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
through the Leadership Fellows Program has been great because it’s given me direct access to senior management right away,” she says. “That’s why I went to business school in View Details
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'Matter Battles': Cognitive Representations, Boundary Objects, and the Failure of Collaboration in Two Smart Cities
By: Tiona Zuzul
In this paper, I present a longitudinal study of two smart city projects that brought together experts from diverse knowledge domains. Both projects structured collaboration around the development of boundary objects that could integrate actors’ expertise. In both... View Details
Zuzul, Tiona. "'Matter Battles': Cognitive Representations, Boundary Objects, and the Failure of Collaboration in Two Smart Cities." Academy of Management Journal 62, no. 3 (June 2019): 739–764.
- 14 Nov 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?
skills. Attributes of attitude are learned from birth. They are changed only with great difficulty in adulthood. And few for-profit organizations are in the business of doing it. Generosity falls under View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
Arthur Segel: Historically, perhaps more great fortunes have been made and lost in this asset class than any other. At Harvard Business School the real estate course is a synthesis of all View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
may be a great stepping stone to future venture capital. The open source environment made it possible, for instance, for the founders of Sun, Netscape and Red Hat, to show... View Details