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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Sinking By James B Lockhart (MBA 1974) Koehler Books James B. Lockhart, a former submarine officer with the U.S. Navy who went on to play a large part in the government ’s response to the global financial crisis, tells an important story... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
the importance of empowering investors and business & city operators at the local level. This lesson resonated because while climate change is inherently a global problem, the way it has shown up in my life at the different places I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and Italian View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
uncertainty associated with screening early stage ventures. Using data on 652 ventures in high-growth industries, we examine whether experienced entrepreneurs, executives, and investors can predict the outcomes of early stage ventures by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
potential employees and investors as well as to customers." Your Inner Entrepreneur But if entrepreneurship is, as Professor Howard Stevenson defines it, truly "a way of managing" rather than a specific set of activities or personality... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
its currency. Investors started to flee Asia, and the crisis rapidly spread to other countries. Central banks spent billions of dollars to try and defend their currencies, only to seek emergency bailouts from the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
of businesses (e.g., product firms) and that every MSP entrepreneur and investor should carefully consider. In the last section I also discuss an important boundary condition: when is the MSP business model dominated by related-but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
take that into consideration. The bottom line is that you and I can talk about shareholder value not being the primary consideration—but if you're a large investor in a company, you might think that's the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52164 forthcoming Explorations in Economic History Prizes, Patents and the Search for Longitude By: Burton, M. Diane, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—The 1714 Longitude Act created the Board of Longitude to administer a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on liquidation, not only as a means for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
motivations behind and value created by business transformations and spinoffs, identify spinoff strategies, and gain insights into managing chief executive officer and chief financial officer relationships with investors and the financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
perfect set of slides to convince investors to back you and your venture. The authors, veterans of the startup world, show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show to garner financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
entrepreneurship as a trip on a roller coaster, not a rocket ship,” says HBS professor and entrepreneurship expert Bill Sahlman, an early investor in E Ink and longtime adviser to Wilcox. “Very few companies go straight up, and E Ink is... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
of credit. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-066 Responsibilities to Investors (Abridged) This note focuses on managers’ responsibilities—economic, legal, and ethical—to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
was enough to spur the innovation, offering inventors a "seal of approval" they could then use to show investors that their idea had merit. "When you think about the cost of launching a new innovation, it is clearly an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
believed that these holdout creditors created "collective action problems" and presented a major obstacle to successful sovereign debt restructurings. On the other hand, other observers argued that activist investors actually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay... View Details