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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
financial products or institutions, rather than look at product or company names, we should look at what functions they perform. In the classroom, we study four functions: payments, movements of money from today to tomorrow (savings and... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
In 2000, Fisher founded ViaCell, a cellular medicines company that became the parent of ViaCord and the subject of an HBS case study. She took ViaCell public in 2005 and sold it to Perkin Elmer in 2007 for... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real... View Details
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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs - Recruiting
“Lean into in-person time upfront as much as you can,” says Brennan. “Starting a new job remotely can be very disorienting. It doesn’t feel real until you meet some people, particularly when you have one-off hires.” It’s not just a matter... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
place, while the results of that innovation leads to learning that reshapes the strategy. Lean Strategy enables company builders to pursue viable opportunities, stay focused, and align the entire organisation while supporting front-line... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had taken the theory to the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive risk-taking. The bill requires... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
close, intelligent attention may be a challenge. We must recognize that there exists a number of public companies that might not merit a significant commitment of wealth by people who would be highly... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Publications June 2015 Review of Accounting Studies Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—We study conference calls as a voluntary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
has a real advantage, to kind of shed some of the barnacles that were created during the Internet experiment and the excessive efforts to grow that many companies felt compelled to pursue over the last four... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
always the risk of embarrassment: Maybe no one would sign up. On the other hand... Sahlman knew for a fact that whenever one of his colleagues offered a course that focused on people in a deal-making context, students signed up in droves. That had been true for the... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England, corrected View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
functions that are thrust to the center of concern during such crisis events. Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action Authors:Leonard, Herman B., and Mark H. Moore Publication:Ports in a Storm: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
children gone into business as well? (JS): We have six children. A couple of them work for me in the real estate business, but Bracken is really the only one following in my footsteps, where he is buying and... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
that "fundamental to trust is integrity so I would build the foundation on integrity." Other favorites included "the extent to which I feel my manager or my organization is being real with me ( doing what it says on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
guided by the invisible hand of the stock market. In Germany alone, some 2,500 companies that would qualify to go public are not listed on any exchange." In rectifying that problem, Europe must deal... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
my memory. Dustin Brown Working in family's real estate business Understand the digital landscape to work more effectively, innovate collaboratively, and respond to new business opportunities. "This course... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
fuel and lost business included—to be $124 billion annually, or about $2,000 per commuter. Mistele and INRIX aren’t in the business of delivering bad news, however. They have been trying to do something about traffic congestion since the Kirkland, Washington–based... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
and analysis. Ramana Nanda: One of the debates in the finance literature has been whether finance follows real activity like real investments and companies setting up. Will... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
from auto dealers, retail stores, and real estate brokers). Finally, Congress missed the main cause of the financial crisis—Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the housing agencies. Given the fragility of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff