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- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
replace it with a fixed-rate debt-like return that matches the risk characteristics of the pension liabilities. Since the typical large pension fund equity portfolio has a very high correlation with the general equity market returns, this... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
also preferred to recruit people with an engineering or technical background, while traditionally British managers were chosen on the basis of "character." The firms and entrepreneurs of the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands have shared one common... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Profile
Michael Maples
I was a kid, my dad once told me `It’s only over when you decide to quit.’” So Maples plowed ahead into his investing career. To raise his chances for success, Maples did what has been characteristic of his career: view the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
popular or unpopular titles relates to their appreciation of those titles, and assess the characteristics of customers in the "head" and "tail" of the distribution of choices across titles. I find that a large share of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
LEVITT The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time — not a minute more or less — a slight man with bushy eyebrows and an... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
characteristics (competence, ambition) and is scarce and in demand on the job market. This research uncovers an alternative kind of conspicuous consumption that operates by shifting the focus from the preciousness and scarcity of goods to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
closer, you’ll see that the characteristics of CEOs really have changed. And many of the factors that determine access to power also have changed. Is the importance of higher education one example? If you think about what was important... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
values and tried many times to formulate the distinctive characteristics of the various services." In essence, the "Navy spokesmen attempted to distinguish between the Army as a 'manpower' organization and the Navy as a finely... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
that those creating powerful technology have to ensure what they build is used for good, and not for harm.” Within 48 hours, over 300 (out of about 120,000) Microsoft employees had attached their names to the message. The Microsoft employee message was View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
with book goodwill and two successive years of book-to-market ratios above one). We find non-impairment of goodwill is increasing in firm characteristics predicted to be associated with greater managerial discretion. We also find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
being curious (with a desire to learn and be the best you can be) is a very important characteristic for Peeksters to have, whether they are joining as an engineer or a salesperson. People who don’t have this quality won’t be a fit at... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “We trained an algorithm to write using... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
leads the loan syndicate (parent-financed deals). Bank-affiliated deals are similar in characteristics and financing to stand-alone deals but have worse outcomes if consummated during the peaks of the credit market. Parent-financed deals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
characteristics and fixed effects. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16294 Law and Finance c. 1900 Authors:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
broken by proposing a formula or framework or face-saving compromise. Movement can also be created by erecting barriers to backsliding that impel the process forward—taking advantage of the irreversibilities characteristic of complex... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
facing the Internet. Note that in the newspaper industry, digital content initially started with different advertising customers, a different business model, and a whole set of performance characteristics that made it appear unattractive... View Details
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
it is so much better to let others talk about your accomplishments than to talk about them yourself. There are many Harvard Business School alumni who embody personal humility. Indeed, as I think about the distinguished alumni we celebrate today, it is a View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
characteristics such as pollution levels, regulatory compliance, environmental management practices that affect operations (such as environmental auditing), and stakeholder engagement (such as environmental reporting). Where Rankings Go... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
suppliers or final consumers, (2) agglomeration allows for labor market pooling, and (3) agglomeration facilitates intellectual spillovers. We assess the importance of the theories via regressions of coagglomeration indices on these measures. Data on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
potential pitfalls of pursuing sole ownership of a foreign affiliate? A: Sole ownership is most likely to be second best in settings where either local sourcing or local selling are the defining characteristics of the affiliate's... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell