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- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
financial perspective. Building a Bridge to PE/VC At HBS, Mbanusi and Sheil became friends and were linked together by a shared desire to pivot their careers into investing as well as a passion for making a positive impact on the world.... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
different types of seats are filled) on distributional objectives is comparable to the effect of adjusting reserve sizes. Either lowering the precedence order positions of reserve seats at a school or increasing the number of reserve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
graduates, to address climate change?” Ratnika Prasad (MBA 2020), Associate Director at The Nature Conservancy "There has been a seismic shift in the last few years, whereby concern about the climate and sustainability has finally begun to take a rightful seat as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
true that there are plenty of positive statistics out there. Women make up 46.4 percent of the Fortune 500 workforce and just over 50 percent of management, professional, and related occupations. Our research, however, shows that there’s... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
common and strategic sustainability practices. This dynamic distinction helps for understanding whether and how sustainability practices can help companies establish a competitive advantage over time. How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
of the highly educated, Wallace says the move has boosted the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and turned into a competitive advantage. Ovia is among a handful of companies that are rethinking their screening process, for reasons that range from... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
with HBS Research Associate Susan Winterberg. "This isn't just an academic interest for us," Sucher says. "We want to change how people think about this topic. We know there are sound and legitimate reasons why companies turn to layoffs—to respond to... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and sizable. Compared with credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
proposals that received a MV between 1997 and 2004, we find that the frequency of implementation has almost doubled from 22% between 1997 and 2002 to 41% in 2003-2004. With respect to the determinants of the implementation decision, we find a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
are situations in which you can reposition the bargaining in a way that is not gendered. For example, if I see an opportunity for leadership, and believe that in that position of leadership I can attain additional value for those who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
and adapt leadership and talent management best practices to law firm structures and challenges. Chapters cover all of the important aspects of strategic talent management and provide practical guidance from law firm talent management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
market conditions and, indeed, to a company's own strategic decisions. By serving the U.S. market from Japan, Toyota in its early days implicitly considered that market to be on the periphery of its own region. The North American West... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- Profile
Sheila Marcelo
Filipino students and met Ron Marcelo, a student at Yale. The pair married and had a son, Ryan, while both remained in college. When the young family moved to Boston, Marcelo deferred her admission to Harvard Law School in order to gain litigation experience. “That... View Details
- 14 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise
MBAs. One career opportunity through the SEI is the HBS Leadership Fellows program which enables recent graduates to work alongside senior management on strategic initiatives at non-profits or public sector organizations for a year. With... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
with content offered at positive prices, and peer-to-peer file sharing networks, which do not seek profit maximization, use p2p network architectures, and offer content for free, constitute two new business models for the distribution of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
CEOs can meet their challenges once that top position is achieved. The book covers the importance of family, effective time management, discipline in all its meanings, and the relationships between the CEO, the board of directors,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
fantastically! Max perfectly understood where I was coming from. She spoke genuinely about how fulfilling it was to find a leadership position in the arts with her business background, and helped me envision how I could do the same.” With... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. +Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications;... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
around the strategic direction that the company is taking would require giving different types of information to board members and having different discussions in board meetings, but the effort to revamp the meeting process and agenda... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan