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- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
driven by large aggregator NPEs and is not the behavior of small innovators. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms that may have reduced ability to defend themselves against litigation. Finally, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
chartered accountants (CAs) who practice in India and around the world. Further, the CAs in India have much more control over the standards than in many other countries, where standard setting and practice are more separated. Additionally, there is no View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social performance and suggest that CSR View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
telephones sometimes resting on the carpet where furniture had not arrived. Things seemed to be moving fast even for the placid Bussgang, who said, "It's a real challenge putting together a group of people who have never worked... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 909-010 Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding that, as HBS professor James E. Austin puts it, "the boundaries... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm-level data set in a broad sample of developed and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
when it could mean the end of his business as he knows it. “One of the biggest challenges is these institutional changes,” he says. “It’s going to take time.” Some days, the time required to create real change wears on Mawilmada. Yet... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
the tone for company culture and even amid everyone’s hectic schedules we were able to fit in activities to get to know each other. One of the best parts of working on a team are the conversations that happen offline, and this was... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
dollars if the stations don’t work!” Terry’s activism has paid off. By mid-February, the Transportation Department included language – that Terry pushed for – in its initial standards for federally funded charging stations. Specifically,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
result, I definitely felt different as I sought opportunities in a less traditional space — entertainment and media — with a later recruiting time frame. How about you, Sonia? Sonia Sahney: I feel like I’ve taken advantage of the extracurricular View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
members to help select winning designs. Threadless encouraged community members to actively participate by critiquing submitted designs, blogging about their daily lives, posting songs and videos inspired by the designs, and, most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
real bicycle that would fold — something to use for serious cycling that was sturdier than available folding models. He designed and built a prototype in his spare time (while fully employed as an architect) and discovered that others... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Monitoring and intrusion-detection tools routinely log computer activity on company networks and highlight patterns of suspicious activity, changes in software, or patterns of communication and access. Some companies turn off... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
that in real terms, a dollar invested in large company stocks in December 1925 was worth $24.79 by year-end 1979. Exactly twenty years later, that dollar was worth $303.09. Nevertheless, the fact that the upper echelon of society... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
and maintain the same respect in my rewrite. I count myself lucky enough not only to have experienced his impact at HBS, but experienced it in a very personal and meaningful way. —Sunru Yong (MBA 2007) courtesy Office of John McArthur Dean McArthur taught me what View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
2014 became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics. These superstar worries are real, and there are many more one-in-a-thousand talents that could be missed too. But the real... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
increases individual productivity by eliminating potential cognitive distractions resulting from good weather. When the weather is bad, individuals may focus more on their work rather than thinking about activities they could engage in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance