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13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect

didn’t realize that we had shared professional interests,” Model recalls, laughing. “It was just a social thing.” Only after graduation would they realize how well-matched their ambitions were: Model, who had a background in investment... View Details

2014
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Payout Policy

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin Schmalz

We survey the literature on payout policy, with a particular emphasis on developments in the last two decades. Of the traditional motives of why firms pay out (agency, signaling, and taxes), the cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Investment; Financial Services Industry

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Policy 37, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 231–258. With Scur, Daniela, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, and Nicholas Bloom. The Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Communication Patterns , Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9,... View Details

05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

current state of access to bank capital for small business from the best available sources. We explore both the cyclical impact of the recession on small business and access to credit and several structural issues in that impede the full... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

She launched the nonprofit consulting practice at the Parthenon Group. Then in 2010, her friend Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who had built Social Finance UK with David Blood (MBA 1985), was looking to expand the organization. “Tracy had the combination of mind and will... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

20 Dec 2023
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New School

In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and students who suddenly found... View Details

April 2011 (Revised July 2011)
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Renewing GE: The Africa Project (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary

This case profiles the evolution of General Electric's African American Form (AAF), an employee affinity group, and its efforts to increase the company's involvement in Africa. The AAF formed in 1991 to help advance GE's recruitment, retention and development of black... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Africa; United States

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21 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

these additional terminations are wise choices, but it helps to illustrate how the disclosure channel has a meaningful impact on competition and many millions of dollars of R&D investment decisions.”... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

necessary to decide how they will be spread over the merging companies' workforces. This decision can significantly impact the merger integration process and how the stock market values the merger, by sending employees and investors a... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

Investment (SRI) screens, and to understand drivers of demand for impacting investing more broadly. The case also explores the challenges the founders face when aiming to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

reason for this difference becomes obvious when we recalculate the quarterly cost of performing the customer service activities. In the exhibit "The Impact of Practical Capacity," time-driven ABC analysis reveals that only 83... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

their own way; they flounder and eventually leave, reinforcing the judgment that they weren’t worth investing in, she says. Adopting the development mindset To foster more equity, firms need to move away from an assessment culture and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

and in our success as a family," notes L.E. Simmons (MBA '72), founder of L.E. Simmons & Associates in Houston, which manages a private equity fund that invests in the oil service industry. "We all believe in and support what Kim Clark is... View Details

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2023
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How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

by thinking about how it might have changed an important decision, had we had it in place when we made the decision. My experiences in researching and putting a value on an effective culture tell me that if notions concerning deep purpose are to have practical View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry Expansion of the Case Method The Case Method Classroom Teaching & The Case Method Impact on... View Details

2010
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Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro

All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

under Finance) Randolph Cohen Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Foundry AI Lab Thomas Eisenmann , Shikhar Ghosh Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Field Course: Investing... View Details

09 Jun 2022
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The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

with a group of sectionmates I didn’t know very well. I met one of them through a Women in Investing Club event, and she invited me on the trip. As an introvert, I was hesitant at first—spending a whole weekend with people I didn’t know... View Details

July 2011
Article

The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking

By: Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner

This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private equity sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships are an... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment Return; Relationships; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry