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Fola Folowosele
career vision. However, I've also learned to be flexible and open to taking advantages of opportunities that present themselves even if they are not necessarily part of my original vision. Prior to coming to HBS, I was told that it was a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
taking place with another company. Using a third party puts distance between the company and the candidate and gives both sides the freedom to discontinue discussions without damaging their egos and reputations." Another View Details
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
Similarly, buyouts of high-tech firms were supposed to be too risky, yet recent transactions have proved the received wisdom to be false. Private equity is a dynamic industry, at whose heart is the taking of calculated View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because they have fewer opportunities to diversify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
are significantly different to the inter-industry vertical FDI visible at the two-digit level. These subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage considerations in traditional models, where firms locate their low skill production stages abroad in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
wealth. The focus of Investment Strategies is financial markets, principally equity markets, taking the perspective of an institutional portfolio manager and considering the efficacy of value investing, arbitrage, and other active... View Details
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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
equity, and human-centered values into emerging technologies. This demonstrates how a human-centered, inclusive approach to algorithm design can proactively surface risks and guide more ethical, effective innovation. Strategically,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Taking in Business, Investing, and Life by Karen Firestone (MBA 1983) (Bibliomotion) Firestone has developed four core tenets of risk-taking that are applicable when anticipating, evaluating, and responding to View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
can think strategically about where the business will be and how they might build for the future. A great example is Lou Gerstner (HBS MBA '65). When he took the helm at IBM, he had to take $7 billion out of the company's cost structure... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
policies, and processes take in encouraging volunteerism and ownership on the part of customers? How can the risk be mitigated? Are customers being underutilized by the typical enterprise? Going forward,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
While the risk functions of some organizations have a culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative scepticism, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
how and why diversifiable risk should be priced in VC deals even though investors are fully diversified. We then take our theory to a unique data set and show that while investors do earn zero alpha on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
believe that they are more than money-making machines: they are a vehicle for advancing societal goals. They deliver more than just financial returns; they also build enduring institutions. At great companies researched for this article, institutional logic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Nathalie du Preez
what my key strengths were and what I enjoyed. I was afraid to take risks and explore opportunities outside of finance. HBS made me realize that I should pick a career that focuses on my personal strengths... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
commercials, for example, have traditionally gone together—the former creating value for the consumer, the latter capturing it for the company. When TiVo came along, it allowed viewers to record the shows they wanted without all of those annoying ads. Another early... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal, Cristy Barnes considers the company's characteristics and how they differ from a typical investment. At the same time, the CEO and the venture capitalist are exploring the true costs and benefits of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to another continent, our alumni friends in Germany have been doing a wonderful job of organizing the upcoming 2000 HBS Global Alumni Conference, scheduled to take place in Berlin, June 13-16. This milestone three-day event, titled... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
micro-theorists in economics call biased risk-evaluation?...[It's one in which the bias prevails that you] attach 'gain' to a probabilistic assessment and you trigger action; attach 'loss' to it, you get inaction." Pallavi Marathe elaborates on this thought... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett