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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

By: Sergey Chernenko, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein
We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36%... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Capital; Credit; Financial Institutions
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Organizations are formed in a free economy because an individual or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken in... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations; Value Creation
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Channeled Attention and Stable Errors -- Previous Working Version

By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
A common critique of models of mistaken beliefs is that people should recognize their error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker... View Details
Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Theory; Situation or Environment
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  • May 2007
  • Article

Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Anyone in management knows that employees have their good days and their bad days and that, for the most part, the reasons for their ups and downs are unknown. Most managers simply shrug their shoulders at this fact of work life. But does it matter, in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Performance; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Practice
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  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

average, would switch to the less preferred but cheaper brand. “Substitution patterns that you expect to find in observational data, we were able to find by collecting GPT’s responses,” says Israeli. “That was pretty incredible to us,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

solo founder. This is a highly subjective situation dependent on many factors; some of which I’ll discuss below. Do you need a cofounder? I’ve worked both for and with hundreds of entrepreneurs in the last few decades and on the topic of cofounder relationships, my... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Women at HBS - Alumni

in February 2013. HBS observed International Women's Day on March 8, 2013 with a series of student-focused discussions and events, including discussion of a new case: "Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012". A documentary film,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

world. Her dream is to lead a global organization -- like Save the Children -- that "makes an impact on people all over the world." There is no substitute, she says, for the satisfaction of helping others. "The capacity that people have that goes unseen continues to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 17 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

branch manager or executive roles within a firm, women and men were held to the same standards and punished in comparable ways. The researchers observed the same phenomenon with racial minorities, with African-American men punished more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

The U.S. Job Search for International Students

because a larger company hires more people – and therefore is more familiar with the process, the larger company has no advantage over the smaller, earlier stage company. We have observed that smaller, earlier stage companies are... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

for how these changes would be achieved. The Balanced Scorecard played an instrumental role in this process. While the pieces of the strategy existed, they were fragmented; some observers referred to it as "strategy du jour."... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

relationship, it remains difficult to determine which firms any given piece of legislation will affect, and how it will affect them. By observing the actions of legislators whose constituents are the affected firms, we can gather insights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

listing, click here . IFC: Europe; Decarbonization and Sustainable Production (January 2025) Willy Shih & Mike Toffel This EC Field Course offers a unique educational experience, where students will get to observe and interact with... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

sales managers hire in their own image because how each manager achieved that performance is what got him or her promoted and in a position to hire. But the best results, by far, occur when recruiters can observe the relevant job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jun 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

observing something they wouldn’t be seen doing, and asked him, “What are you doing, Tony?” He would reply, “Nothing,” and delight in observing the expressions on one “anxious achiever” after another. It was... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

such barriers are often a root cause of toxic culture and, in fact, hundreds of honest conversations that I and my colleagues have observed revealed their particular company’s toxic culture. Such revelation wouldn’t be worth much if it... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
  • 29 Sep 2022
  • Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

our own, a way of working we are not used to, a person who approaches work in a way that is radically different from ours (and maybe also one we disagree with), or someone of a different background or race, differences are likely to bring about discomfort. Yet as my... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

2018, much of which came from the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) massive database of Wi-Fi products. The researchers used the FCC documents and other sources to observe firms' positions in a supply chain with rich detail,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

dance floor...The process must be iterative, not static. The challenge is to move back and forth between the dance floor and the balcony, making interventions, observing their impact in real time, and then returning to the action.” This... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

many small and often family-owned firms whose stories are hard to reconstruct. The industry as a whole is well known to be secretive—after all, its foundations rest heavily on mystique. And then there is the frequently observed gender... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics