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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
both the exchange and the acceptance of ideas-people really hear your message and become open to it. Cultivating warmth and trust also boosts the quantity and quality of novel ideas that are produced. The best way to gain influence is to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
Issue Focus: Innovation In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, we turned to five HBS faculty... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
nearby Hingham, Massachusetts, that she helped create and successfully led over the past eight years. Bourneuf came to HBS eager to gain exposure to developments in the broader business environment and possibly a new career direction.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
still had to justify its existence through profits. He hired the best engineers available, yet expected them to run their areas of responsibility with commercial acumen as "ordinary businessmen." He despised cartels and gained a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Since joining PwC in 1999, Elena has served in a variety of Human Capital roles and spearheaded the firm's signature Vanguard program, a year-long leadership development program for the firm’s Black/African American new hires. She is also... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
its implications for the future of capitalism Lesson Plan After serving alongside senior US Treasury officials during the financial crisis and advising clients at Goldman Sachs, Paige Gebhardt Cognetti took on her hardest challenge: the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
gained a dominant position in Internet search and advertising, and what Microsoft has done so far in its as-yet-unsuccessful effort to catch up with Google. The case then challenges students to construct a strategy that will allow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
of firm entry and exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up skilled labor to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Publishing) How do marketing managers assess the potential for global expansion and help their firms capitalize on opportunities? This book explores which companies and products should expand internationally, what countries offer the best... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
ensuring high-quality care across the system. The arrival of COVID-19, he says, presented “the challenge of a lifetime.” In addition to gaining a deep appreciation of frontline health care providers, says Hatanaka, Ontario Health has... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
Asian Agri appeared well positioned to capitalize on the growing palm oil market, but the broad-strokes vilification of the palm oil industry was a source of serious concern. In the face of great uncertainty, the management team needed to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
their non-connected holdings. A replicating portfolio of connected stocks outperforms a replicating portfolio of non-connected stocks by up to 8.4% per year. Returns are concentrated around corporate news announcements, consistent with mutual fund managers View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
and potential often fail for one simple reason―the enormous challenge for investor relations and fundraising professionals to raise the necessary capital to make the fund profitable. Marketing Alternative Investments builds on the... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508052 Ithmar Capital Harvard Business School Case 809-032 The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace