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  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

constraints, with the impact of that decision affecting everything from just their immediate team to billions of dollars of revenue globally. The beauty of the case method is that it breaks down the most complicated problems to small... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

current career plans in any way? This summer, I interned at CDC Group, the oldest impact investor in Africa and South Asia, and at EquaLife Capital, an East African investment fund. I found the role of value... View Details
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rising stock markets. As a nation, then, we make a substantial investment in foundation philanthropy that goes well beyond the original gifts of private donors. We should therefore expect foundations to achieve a social View Details
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

that move faster to meet caregivers’ needs. With those employees goes the substantial investment that companies make in recruiting, retention, and training, says Fuller, who co-leads the Managing the Future of Work project. Raman is the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • October 2007
  • Article

The Effectiveness of Pre-Release Advertising for Motion Pictures: An Empirical Investigation Using a Simulated Market

By: Anita Elberse and Bharat N. Anand
One of the most visible and publicized trends in the movie industry is the escalation in movie advertising expenditures over time. Yet, the returns to movie advertising are poorly understood. The main reason is that disentangling the causal effect of advertising on... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Stocks; Investment Return; Price; Revenue; Quality; Mathematical Methods; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets" (May 2008). Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Business, Finance, and Management category... View Details
  • 07 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

during travel. In fact, tourism accounts for about 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Pollution from travel also has major impacts on human health. One approach to help offset the negative... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

toward a healthy economy and future gains? There are several levers such as investing heavily in robotics and labor-augmenting machinery, but immigration can also be a powerful way for countries to continue economic development and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

American labor unions. Others argue about the importance of maintaining national security. Could they be persuaded to support such a move if the US government invested in American industries at the same time, perhaps similarly to... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

latter's poor behavior in other relationships is unlikely to have much marginal effect. We test the resulting hypotheses by examining how a venture capital firm's reputation for unreliability, triggered by repeated withdrawals from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest part of strategy implementation in most firms, the issues involved in linking selling View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

impact factors in the investment process. The promises are compelling: better long-term risk management, new sources of alpha, and “doing well by doing good.” In contrast, skeptics argue a focus on ESG and... View Details
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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets

By: Pari Sastry, Ishita Sen and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
This paper studies how homeowners insurance markets respond to growing climate losses and how this impacts mortgage market dynamics. Using Florida as a case study, we show that traditional insurers are exiting high risk areas, and new lower quality insurers are... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Natural Disasters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance Industry; Florida
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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

Companies should train managers to root out racial bias from their hiring and recruitment processes. They should also invest in retaining black professionals, in part by reinforcing the message that race will not be a barrier to... View Details
  • 27 May 2015
  • Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

to share ideas and interests where you quickly find people to connect and debate with inside and outside of the classroom. How do you think the section set up impacts the academic environment at HBS?Philipp: The group of 90 is extremely... View Details