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Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era

The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

has an advanced degree." As an alternative way of achieving this objective, Bobby Mackie suggests that faculty development "could include more two-way movement of staff, building communication links, and networking between... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Payout Policy

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz

03 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness

04 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services

October 2007
Article

The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital

By: Michael D. Kimbrough

Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details

Keywords: Information; Value Creation; Fair Value Accounting; Research and Development; Financial Statements; Capital

Citation

19 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business

11 Apr 2023
Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

skyrocketed by 5x. This has forced one of the facilities to temporarily shut down their production. BTG Bioliquids highlighted that this was a major concern for them, and they are now exploring how to best hedge this risk. They are looking into View Details

April 4, 2009
Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details

Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations

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Kristin W. Mugford | About

and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Kristin retired in 2013 as a Managing Director and partner at Bain Capital, one of the world's leading alternative investment firms, after nearly 20 years as a private equity and credit... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

subtle tweaks to everything from varying shades of color to alternative placement of links and menu options for booking properties. It’s part of an innovative culture of experimentation that pervades every aspect of how the company... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

after they recover from the momentary chaos, many will start thinking about diversifying their risk and trying to develop alternatives in other countries. The biggest losers from the coronavirus [in business] are service industries that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

desirable alternatives in the fullness of time. “No” sometimes means just “no for now.” Careful listening and sensitive longitudinal stewardship are key for successful long-term philanthropy. 8. Don’t wait too long to start your visits.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

been reached, so it is a good alternative to the H-1B. Dependents of H-1B1 visa holders, classified as H-4, are not eligible to work in the United States in H-4 status. + – E-1 Treaty Trader / E-2 Treaty Investor These visa categories are... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Which is why we have committed to you that no one at Aon is going to lose their job because of this COVID-19 outbreak.” Alternatives to salary cuts In addition to salary cuts, firms announced other initiatives to reduce payroll expenses... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

found that the most effective apologies acknowledged responsibility, explained why the action happened, and offered to fix the damage. Be transparent with employees. Provide the context around why a decision was made, the alternatives... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

of Digital Innovation and Strategy CORe AI Essentials for Business Alternative Investments Business Analytics Business and Climate Change Business Strategy Creating Brand Value Design Thinking and Innovation Digital Marketing Strategy... View Details

02 Jun 2010
What Do You Think?

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

much is the level of my execution diminishing my level of profits ." Eddie Jiang provided an alternative way of thinking about the relationship of these three factors by suggesting that they are multiplicative rather than additive.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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