Master Limited Partnership - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

Linda Hill's book for the star performer-turned-new-manager, Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity appeared a decade ago to much acclaim. Much of the original book is still fresh today. But a new edition, Becoming a Manager: How New Managers View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

November – December 2008
Article

Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?

By: Anette Mikes

Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships

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23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

need to get out there and create data." Collectively, these five discovery skills constitute what we call the innovator's DNA, the code for creating innovative business ideas. By mastering these discovery skills, you can learn to act... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

recovery. He explained that during the recession suppliers would also be laying off workers, which limited their capacity to respond once the recession ended. Honeywell made arrangements—during the Great Recession—to be “first in line”... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

structure, because the typical partnership and corporation of this era is a dead structure, a stupid structure." At Divine Interventures, said Filipowski, companies are brought together in an "econet," functioning as... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

applicants were being discouraged by many employers from going to full-time MBA programs, that part-time MBA, executive MBA, and other masters programs were seen as attractive substitutes, and that the students who came were not as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

leave, the smaller the next fund is. That’s because limited partners often take the time to look at the partnership makeup at private equity firms when deciding which ones to invest in. View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

charity can't reach the root of the problems; it just treats the symptoms. Most business partnerships with schools, for example, are limited in scope: they usually provide local resources to augment a school... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

19 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Evolution of Agribusiness

COFCO Ltd.Alberto Weisser, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Bunge Limited Professor Bell moderated a discussion of agribusiness past, present, and future. Professor Goldberg shared his perspective on the inception of the field of... View Details

Keywords: Re: David E. Bell & Ray A. Goldberg; Agriculture & Agribusiness

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

through all that...and come up with clear policy," he said. But he agreed with Sebati that some governments are committed and others are not. Limited Resources Clear policies have been hard to come by in much of Africa, according to... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

overestimates of the actual substantive conflict. To an outsider, those caught up in disintegrating partnerships or marriages often appear to hold exaggerated views of each other. Such partisan perceptions can become even more virulent... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

marketplaces and the SMART Box for term loans, are steps in the right direction, and could provide a useful basis for federally-mandated disclosure boxes. 3. Develop joint guidance on bank-fintech partnerships View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

U.S. economy and policy. Among the major points of discussion: The importance of right-hand tail companies. Distribution of returns and the tensions between limited and general partners. Human capital: where is it coming from now, and... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

12 Apr 2016
First Look

April 12, 2016

higher average value. Using data on 165,410 projects posted on Kickstarter (2009–2015), we report findings consistent with the model's predictions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50821 Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

dimensions. The most obvious was the structure of the organization. While this was a corporate division rather than an independent partnership (like most venture organizations), the XTV partners crafted an agreement with Xerox that... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

trying to build institutions is like building sandcastles. There is no foundation," he said, citing the analogy of a bricklayer and an architect. "The ones appearing to do the job initially are bricklayers," he said. "The View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

finance. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207086 Survey Masters LLC Harvard Business School Case 107-061 A small survey research partnership has reached the... View Details