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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
he acquired the struggling firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Thus began Gordon’s 65-year career at Kidder, which he helped lead to prominence as one of the top underwriting and M&A firms in the world, while also imparting trusted financial advice to numerous View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that identifies the entire capital structure for 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 1998 and 2009 and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sixth Annual Cyberposium an SRO Success
Fiorina, group president of the global service provider business at Lucent Technologies. Her address was followed by "Attackers vs. Defenders: The New Media Wars," a panel featuring leaders of major Internet-related companies - such as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
implications for leaders in three distinct areas. First, he stresses, managers should not assume that conventional wisdom based on contemporary U.S. experience will transfer to developing countries unaltered. For example, highly... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
how are they likely to shape the future for media competitors, advertisers, and their agencies? HBS professor Alvin Silk has long studied such issues, and his latest findings, presented in a new working paper, "Restructuring in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
down the road?” PE managers can also teach you the value of managing cash. Most PE-acquired firms are capitalized with 70 percent debt, compared with the 40 percent average of U.S. public companies. Thus PE managers know how, in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
business, government, and academia, with service as U.S. undersecretary of state; chairman and CEO of the NYSE; chairman of the SEC; and founding dean of the Yale School of Management. Ann S. Moore (MBA ’78)... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
and the concentration of the certification industry. We also analyze the possibility that certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency. Working Papers How Do... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic is restructuring the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Site Credits - The Art of American Advertising
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
effort they enjoyed wide institutional backing. Courts of law routinely supported those who made predictions based on dispassionate scientific rules rather than those who, say, enlisted the help of the stars. Many U.S. jurisdictions... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed that diversified View Details
- Fast Answer
Commodities Research: data and reports
Foreign Agricultural Service PS&D (Production, Supply & Distribution) Provides both data and monthly analysis on agricultural commodities. View Details
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
products has kept up with the massive growth in the volume and complexity of these products. The recent experience with U.S. subprime products adds to such concerns. Worries center on the "correlation modeling" that underpins... View Details
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
most tragic organizational failings in American history: the inability of the country's government and its relevant agencies to forestall the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil. The case is dedicated to Waleed Iskandar (MBA '93), a... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Only difference: Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter—the newest... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49873 forthcoming Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Development U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Industries: financial analytical data and tools
sites typically don't have near the amount of equity, debt and fund market data coverage or analytical features of the licensed services such as Bloomberg and LSEG Workspace. LSEG Workspace Bloomberg Professional Vast array of stock,... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Peter Barge, CEO of the newly created Corporate Solutions Group of Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), is executing a restructuring of the U.S. corporate real estate services division that will enable the company to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
the United States has changed over the past few decades following several M&A waves. Concern has been raised that the industry has become highly concentrated, dominated by a handful of large holding companies. In the paper "How Concentrated Is the View Details