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  • 08 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

unpromising situation stepped Alexander Hamilton, an orphaned, illegitimate (and brilliant) native of the West Indies who grew up in St. Croix and in 1789 became the first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, along with Swiss-born Albert Gallatin and other immigrants,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking
  • 16 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

work authorization to come through before being able to work again. Joshua Rodriguez: My goals for the summer were three-fold: (1) demystify what is data science (2) get comfortable using Python and SQL for data analysis and (3) meet... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

worry about intervening too much." Increased Shareholder Involvement Ferri sees the increased interest in executive pay as an objective opportunity to recognize its importance as a complicated business decision with "huge... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

Education reunion attendees and found that while only subtle changes were needed to improve the MBA reunion experience, the Executive Education model should be addressed more closely. The committee’s recommendation was to undertake a full View Details
Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost fifty years, we theorize a link between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability Here's how these play out on the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • January 2002 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Virtualis Systems (Condensed)

By: Michael J. Roberts and Jay O. Light
Focuses on a graduating HBS MBA who has been working part-time with a Web-hosting firm in California. Discusses the question of which of several "business models" make the most sense for the company to pursue. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Management Practices and Processes; Web Services Industry; California
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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2017
  • News

The Business of Social Justice

earning her MBA, working with the Bridgespan Group to provide financial analysis and management consulting services to nonprofits that serve the homeless and the recently incarcerated as well as to organizations with adult education and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

unrelated issues in which a decision may be endogenously delayed by the allocation of influence resources. Delay is strategically interesting when decision makers with asymmetric preferences face multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

understand how to scale economic mobility and alleviate poverty through state and federal educational policy reform. After graduation, he moved to North Carolina to teach with Teach for America, so he could perform a “360-degree analysis... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

workday events can make or break employees' inner work lives. But it's forward momentum in meaningful work—progress that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

Authors:Mihir Desai and Li Jin Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between firm payout policy and tax incentives. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

order to understand how socially imprinted WISEs may mitigate this negative relationship between social imprinting and economic productivity, we also conduct a comparative analysis of case studies. We find that one effective approach is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2020
  • News

What It Takes

scene in the office of your investor from Presidential Life, and how it changed the firm's approach to decision making? Steve: Sure. This was our third investment. My partner and I had never made an investment before. We were pretty good... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

to get done. It's really the country's decision to determine which problems to solve, although we will say when we can't be helpful in a particular area." Ebrahim's case on the MCC (coauthored with V. Katsuri Rangan) describes the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

examine whether multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

the American Mathematical Society , no. 4. New York, N.Y.: American Mathematical Society, 1951. * Samuelson, Paul A. Foundations of Economic Analysis . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947. * Samuelson, Paul A. " Rational... View Details