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- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us see the connection between support of the HBS Fund and the priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
sent to a friend who owed him money—in this homemade account book from 1673 to 1693. The book, bound in rawhide and sewn with linen thread, chronicles the family’s activity in farming and household management as well as shoemaking. Jacob... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the company's progressive stance and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
indefinite deferral under the current system. This proposal would raise revenues from corporate activities in jurisdictions with no or low taxes, while encouraging American corporations to repatriate their foreign profits at reasonable rates. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
being that more money can then go to actual programs. So an organization might report, “We spend 6 percent on fundraising, whereas the industry average is 12 to 14 percent.” That’s typical, but beyond that, we don’t know how the other 94... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
You've done everything—endured diets, purged your freezer of Ben & Jerry's, and educated yourself on fat, sugar, and calories. Yet, you can't manage to lose weight. What's wrong with you? According to standard economic theory, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
"Taiwan today is an exciting place to be in business," said Benjamin P.L. Feng (MBA 1975), managing director of All Asia Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei. At HBS this fall to attend his 25th Reunion, Feng took time... View Details
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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge
brace yourself for several years of random calls on capital for which you have to deliver liquidity,” explains Ivashina. “That means you have to manage your liquidity accordingly, which already becomes quite complicated. If you have your... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
it was good (or lucky) at doing something very un-machinelike: it put its money down, made a bet, and won. That was enough to get Watson through Final Jeopardy, in which Watson and the HBS team, both allowed 30 seconds, answered the same... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
increasing your female managers leads to higher profitability over time.” — HBS associate professor JORDAN SIEGEL describing his research results from countries that traditionally discriminate against women. (HBS Working Knowledge,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
teach the other side a lesson? Indeed, the American pilots could impose endless costs on the airline by simply refusing agreement and management could do the same to the pilots. Yet while the impasse continues, the fund would grow, making... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
regulations,” he said. Dimon also agreed with criticisms of excessive executive compensation. “There were a lot of people who in hindsight wound up making a lot of money who didn’t deserve it.” As for politicians, Dimon railed against... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
businesses to some 200 investors in the audience. The goal of the event was simple: to get financing. "This is about money changing hands," Harvard Business School professor Myra M. Hart, forum co-chair, told the audience.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the Entrepreneurial View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
given at a G8 summit in 2013 and resulted in a report published by the OECD in 2015. That work has continued with the next report coming out at the end of 2017. “We’re looking at economic, environmental, and social challenges in developed and developing countries,” she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
The Long View
If I Knew Then, with their road-tested wisdom on everything from love to leadership. (For more advice, visit HBS1963.com.) "Too much money can make you just as unhappy as too little." —Sam Abel-Smith "For a successful marriage, don't eat... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say, before the process of writing a check,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
offered by the CMOS technology. And he committed additional resources only when the management team identified and began developing new markets. Rather than pour money into the initial framing, he helped... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
geographical and physical condition.” KevinJFichtner focused on implementation. “Anyone at any age can be inspired to accomplish something that is truly important to him or her I think it depends on how the goal is incentivized.” Ed Hare appeared to agree: “The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
Investment in the inner city can reap social rewards, but there’s real money to be made as well, agreed panelists at the 32nd annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference. Named for Fitzhugh (MBA ’33), one of the School’s first African-American... View Details