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  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

partners investing at the same VC firm at the same time. Furthermore, our estimates suggest the partner's human capital is two to five times more important than the VC firm's organizational View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry; and they can succeed in economic, social, and... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

Business School Case 508-028 Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

guidance algorithms to help robots intelligently operate on beating hearts, the lungs, and brain. My Master of Science (MS) degree helped me develop a vernacular for technical concepts in robotics, cellular biology, human anatomy, and... View Details
  • 28 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

data science makes this model obsolete. Behavioral scientists tell us that where there is human interaction, people will have biases that influence their decisions, typically in the wrong way. “Now decisions are increasingly based on hard... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

nonprofit counterparts. “One of the roles we have to play is getting people to see the humanity of the other,” Crespin observes. In the honey-bee world, Crespin came up with the idea of having beekeepers, farmers, crop experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

entrepreneurship, company location choices, firm governance, local business ecosystems, human capital, K-12 education, fiscal policy, tax policy, capital markets, environmental sustainability, democracy, and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

Jones, G. Abstract—This article highlights the role of business enterprises as influences on ideals of human beauty. The homogenization of such ideals has been one of the most noteworthy features of globalization over the last two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

Experimental Psychology: General The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts By: Morewedge, Carey K., Colleen E. Giblin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Much human thought arises unbidden, spontaneously intruding upon consciousness.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2015 (Revised October 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Annelena Lobb
On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Risk Management; Executive Compensation; Cash Flow; Business Exit or Shutdown; Media; Advertising; Restructuring; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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  • June 2013 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Risk Management; Executive Compensation; Cash Flow; Business Exit or Shutdown; Media; Advertising; Restructuring; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

produce benefits, particularly in light of what's going on now in terms of a number of these privatized firms being de-listed? What is the role of institutional reforms in improving information and accountability?" Global Investor Portfolio Flows Professor Kenneth... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

what it takes to build intellectual and human capital and prepared me for the processes we are now engaged in with our own faculty. What are some of the cultural differences between doing business in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

  PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the governing principle of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

chief supply-chain management officer, chief human resources officer, and CEO. It offers a road map for ambitious managers who want to know which skills they should focus on developing in order to rise up the chain of command. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

the industry and accounted for its resilience and how these are likely to influence its future. Publisher's link: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22872 2006 John Wiley & Sons Venture Capital & Private Equity: A Casebook By: Lerner,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Operations Management) Susanna Gallani Robert Huckman Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Business, Government & the International Economy Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Business and Geopolitics Jeremy Friedman Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Business of Ideas Caroline Elkins Fall... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

financial results are material. But if employees are also a significant audience, then human capital issues become material as well. The Statement, a simple one-page annual declaration by the board, is... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

and performance of private firms; and long-run performance evaluation for newly public companies. He has written numerous journal articles and is the coauthor of The Venture Capital Cycle, published in 1999 by The MIT Press. Forest L.... View Details