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12 Nov 2013
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Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Industry By: Park, K. Francis, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We examine how heterogeneity in customers’ multi-homing tendencies affects a platform’s response to new entrants in its market. We develop a formal model to generate... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Ascensia Diabetes Care Ask Big Questions AstraZeneca athenahealth ATI Physical Therapy | Advent International Portfolio Company Atlantic Council Augmedix Inc. Autism Spectrum Therapies Avenue Pacific AVIA Axcella Health B Bain & Co. Bank... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

school’s piggy bank in his paper, How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics, forthcoming in Management Science. “Some of the top schools make enormous amounts of money—just extraordinary, close to $200 million,”... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

estate market began to crash in early 1990, heavily exposed banks like Citibank and Chase Manhattan were left largely undercapitalized. John Reed, Citibank chairman and CEO, was caught off guard by the sudden market plunge. While Reed... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

director time and detract from other, more strategic, director roles. Also, as regulations mandate more outside directors, many of these directors lack the necessary knowledge about the industry and business, requiring education about and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities. However, these positive effects are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Roosevelt; Averell Harriman, a banker whose interests included the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads; J. P. Morgan, a banker and financier; and the investment banks Kuhn, Loeb & Company and Schroder, Rockefeller & Company,... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

there is no wave. If one expends energy efficiently, lives life authentically, and eliminates noise to focus on the signal when it matters, things tend to work out well. And it leaves a ton of time to be on the water, kitesurfing. —Bill Tai (MBA 1987) Team Spirits I... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting” with Umit Gurun and Quoc Nguyen. Lauren H. Cohen : Invited to give a keynote address at the launch of the eNaira, Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), 2021. Lauren H.... View Details

03 May 2010
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What Is the Future of MBA Education?

dominated by traders, who believe business school is a waste of time." According to a senior manager at a leading investment bank: The investment banking industry needs to recruit more technically competent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

market-listed and privately held firms in the United States using a rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities compared to observably similar, matched private firms, especially in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

Wasserman. "They have a lot of senior people at the top and very few junior people below them. Several other industries that started out that way - such as investment banking and consulting - have evolved... View Details

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

10 May 2020
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Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

insurance industry Proudest Accomplishment: Being the mother of Elisa and the wife of Andrés Summer Internship: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) - Boston Office How do you do it? I have a great partner (Andy), I’m positive and enjoy the... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Navigating Success in Volatile Times

Citigroup's Global Investment Management and Private Banking Group, prefaced his opening address on Friday evening with a moving account of his return to Lower Manhattan following the destruction of Citigroup's offices at 7 World... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Finance

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

now, and how will they use their power? Will we see bigger bets on likely blockbusters, more intense competition in areas such as streaming and esports, and more industry consolidation? Drawing on dozens of recent case studies, Professor... View Details

02 Sep 2015
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Explaining China's Crash

After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

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First Look: November 12

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

First Look: April 3

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

First Look: March 26

Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

My First Job

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

First Look: November 15

Leadership and Teaming

It's academic. (Not!)

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

Navigating Success in Volatile Times

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Explaining China's Crash