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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Finance and Organizations for "Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation" (May 2023) with Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. Ishita Sen : Received an INQUIRE Europe Research Grant in 2024 for “The Market... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
on, by appreciation on their stock market investments. Some speculation via short-selling is necessary and appropriate; it adds liquidity to the market and limits excessive optimism. But too much speculation turns the markets from an investment View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
“I suspect this may actually be lower than the true extent of unsafe multitasking, given the fact that not everyone would easily admit to a behavior that is recognized as problematic, if not illegal.” Almost 43,000 people died in vehicle... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show that this is due to workers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
simultaneously manage the seemingly contradictory dualities of the job: integrating direct decision-making with indirect levers like strategy and culture, balancing internal and external constituencies, proactively pursuing an agenda... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
numerous undertakings to roll out no- or low-emission products and processes in multiple sectors. Hence, the major auto producers, globally, have announced commitments to phase out production of new internal View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Cohen : Winner of the 2022 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Master's World Powerlifting Competition Championship (83kg). Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
has reinforced the perception of critics that markets for the digital currency—used primarily as an investment vehicle as it is not widely accepted as payment for goods and services—are little more than global casinos operating with... View Details
- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- Profile
Nathalie du Preez
Why was getting a HBS MBA important to you? HBS, in particular, appealed to me for its general management focus, the diversity and quality of its people, its close alumni network, and of course, the case study method. I believed this unique learning View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
(AMS), an international business and IT consulting firm. "The impact the professors were having on my sectionmates and me made a deep impression." Wasserman recalled that one of the most enjoyable aspects of his work life had been helping... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
challenge we see in platforms is that they are vehicles for good as well as evil. And the vast majority of platforms in the last 10 years were only focused on the good and not on the potential for evil. There are two theories about how to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
automotive company Aptiv for the first autonomous commercial rollout in 2018. To date, customers have logged about 25,000 driverless rides and awarded them an average of 4.94 out of 5 stars. (A human pilot and copilot tag along, both to educate riders and to take... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
free license plates—no small inducement when plates for internal combustion vehicles are awarded by lottery in cities like Shanghai and Beijing, and can fetch more than... View Details
Otto H. Falk
As head of Allis-Chalmers, Falk introduced a product line of earth-moving and other heavy machinery, including tractors, which used the internal combustion engine. Falk was hugely successful in leading... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
established players transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles, it will be intriguing to observe Ather Energy's progress and how they respond to evolving market dynamics. Tarun... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
electricity grid are associated with carbon emissions. But an electric vehicle is less carbon intense (in terms of pounds of CO2 per mile) than a 25-mile-per-gallon internal View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
trucks. The systems captured the energy created when braking and applied it to acceleration, reducing the demand on the internal combustion engine. The model was similar to that used in hybrid cars, but the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
course, one can argue that this is what the highway system of the U.S. (or any country, for that matter) is all about. Or at a more micro level, it is what General Motors, Ford, and others created when they built a system of complementors based on the platform of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett