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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
be quite so literal, museums across the country are working hard to shed their stodgy images and appeal to a broader spectrum of visitors with blockbuster exhibitions, well-stocked gift shops, remodeled... View Details
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
Spoiler alert: slowing down to focus on team, culture, organizational design, business model and continuous improvement are all a part of the formula. So take a breath this summer and redouble your commitment to building a company and... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- April 2010
- Article
Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large literature looking at the determinants of country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor is the... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Performance Capacity; Taxation; Revenue; Governance; Geographic Location; Trade; Price; Cost of Capital; Risk and Uncertainty; Public Administration Industry; Brazil
Martinez Fritscher, Andre C., and Aldo Musacchio. "Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930." Financial History Review 17, no. 1 (April 2010). (Winner of the Gerry Feldman Young Scholar Prize for the best paper of (a) young scholar(s) of the European Association of Banking and Financial History, 2010-2011.)
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
same. This is in the face of research findings that organizations with significant minority representation are stronger than their peers. A McKinsey & Company study in May of top executive teams in more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
contributors to the learning process? If so, what will have to happen? What do you think? Original Article There will be an endless number of post-mortems concerning the tragedies that befell the residents... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
First Name Last Name Email Phone Number Country Total years of professional experience First Name * Last Name * Last Name should contain only characters. Email * Email must be formatted correctly. Phone... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
of the pack. For empire-builders like Rupert Murdoch, defenders appear to be non-existent, but gorilla-hunters are everywhere. The lesson for the rest of us is to make a few more friends, avoid injuring... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
When it became clear that my summer internship with Maverick Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, was going to be remote, I had a lot of questions on my mind. What would it be like to work with a team I... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- May 2011
- Article
Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting
By: George Serafeim
I analyze Embedded Value (EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Reporting; Cash Flow; Contracts; Equity; Profit; Value; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Earnings
Serafeim, George. "Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting." Journal of Accounting Research 49, no. 2 (May 2011).
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
seemed to be a different kind of conversation going on among the women. I thought it would be worthwhile to bring a group of them together to pursue these conversations further. In addition, I knew that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
advocate for women of all backgrounds? Why are so many people allergic to the word “feminism”? This isn’t to ignore the very real and warranted criticism of the origins View Details
- September 2018
- Article
An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India
By: Budhaditya Gupta and Stefan Thomke
Recent research has studied innovation in emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this... View Details
Keywords: India; Product Development; Emerging Markets; Situation or Environment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; India
Gupta, Budhaditya, and Stefan Thomke. "An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India." R&D Management 48, no. 4 (September 2018): 485–501.
- January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model
By: Robert G. Eccles
Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States
Eccles, Robert G. "Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model." Harvard Business School Case 408-103, January 2008. (Revised January 2008.)
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
edited and abridged version of his remarks follows. The Model T was invented in 1908. Since you had to change your tires every nine months in those days, the tire industry was a good one to be in. By 1970, however, you only had to replace... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
Leading in an Uncertain World.” Alumni from 44 countries converged each day on the modern Queen Elizabeth II Convention Centre in the heart of the old city, just a stone’s throw from Big Ben, Parliament, and... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
had spent a lot of it on a motorbike, selling pots and pans. Haryopratomo: It wasn't about the glamour of being in a startup because it wasn't glamorous to be in a startup at the time. Morrell: Very few... View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
The Global Competitive Position of the Baltic Sea Region
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Ketels, Christian H.M. "The Global Competitive Position of the Baltic Sea Region." Chap. 1.3 in Transnational Cooperation for Prosperity in the Baltic Sea Region, 15–19. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, 2009.
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
factors such as hard work, help from others, or luck. That gap in self-confidence starts as young as middle school, she added, but can be reversed as more and more trailblazing women pave the way—women like Sharon Baum (HBS MBA '65), whom Sandberg singled out in the... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette