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- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
CLIMB (Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business) program. The yearlong, comprehensive offering for both new and experienced business leaders combines courses on leadership, strategy, and finance with shorter courses in... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
outcry from users, legislators, and the general public, to force the company to do a better job of protecting private information. In an initial response, Facebook informed its blog readers that it had suspended the consultancy from the... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English translation. Baker Library at HBS and the HBS Business History View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
that minor emotion induction, the anxious negotiators made lower initial offers and bartered less favorable prices than the neutral participants. Anxious buyers, for example, ended up with a $6.60 final... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
expansion, and intrinsic business characteristics. The Indian models are all focused factories, but one is a hub and spoke model, with a hospital hub and ambulatory spokes, while the other offers only ambulatory services and is located on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
averted pollution laws in many countries over a ten-year period. The second involves Zappos’ sudden initiative to eliminate all but one manager, the CEO. The two examples share at least one thing in common: they both involve changing... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
productivity would improve—especially as the bricks-and-clicks retail model worked in an increasingly coordinated manner to offer the consumer a seamless shopping experience. The Internet Threat While recent retail sales figures seem to... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in skill, but caste affinity to the politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone has to take initiative to give a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals
school at Harvard is not cheap. The great news is that both HBS and HLS are exceptional at supporting veterans through the financial aid process. Many veterans qualify for educational assistance programs through the VA. HLS and HBS match Forever/Post-9/11 GI Bill... View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
1933. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Initial versions of cellophane were waterproof, but not... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
existence since 1694 and are currently in use in a host of countries around the world. They blend elements of lotteries and savings programs. In particular, these products offer savers protection against principal loss and liquidity, but... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
School Note 811-016 This note discusses how some firms (start-ups and established companies) maximize customer value and profits via their pricing processes. It is aimed at companies that compete on the basis of performance initiatives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Prior stock price peaks of targets affect several aspects of merger and acquisition activity. Offer prices are biased toward recent peak prices although they are economically unremarkable. An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on state-owned and foreign firms. The case describes the formidable challenges she initially faced, her... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 2023
- Working Paper
Segmented Going-Public Markets and the Demand for SPACs
By: Angela Ma, Miles Zheng and Jessica Bai
We provide a regulatory-arbitrage-based explanation for the origin and proliferation of the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). SPAC sponsors act as non-bank intermediaries, and the SPAC market structure appeals to yield-seeking investors and riskier,... View Details
Keywords: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies; Non-bank Intermediaries; Regulatory Arbitrage; Adverse Selection; Initial Public Offering
Ma, Angela, Miles Zheng, and Jessica Bai. "Segmented Going-Public Markets and the Demand for SPACs." Working Paper, 2023.
- November 2011 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
L'Occitane en Provence
By: Bo Becker, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Scott Mayfield and Mayuka Yamazaki
Cosmetics company L'Occitane en Provence must decide if it is the right time to go public, and, if so, where to list. The firm could list on Euronext in Paris, close to the firm's headquarters in southern France, on one of the large exchanges in the U.S., or perhaps in... View Details
Becker, Bo, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Scott Mayfield, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "L'Occitane en Provence." Harvard Business School Case 212-051, November 2011. (Revised November 2012.)
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
enhanced its relationships with established customers and employees. Ford and General Motors provided the initial impetus for radials when they demanded the new tires, and Firestone marketing managers responded by giving their core... View Details