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- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
GuthrieHarvard Business School Case 411-023 Mekong Capital, a private equity firm specializing in investing in Vietnam, had grown dramatically since its inception in 2002 and faced numerous organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
assumed it was some combination of choice, poor financial decisions, and bad luck,” says Shumway, the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Cicero Group, a Salt Lake City–based consulting firm that uses advanced analytics to help clients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
account for transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while reducing transparency and aggressively maximizing earnings and debt. Creative accounting is part of the competition among auditors that has led to lower profit margins. As a result,... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
I joined a section of MBA candidates representing a variety of industries including corporate strategy, manufacturing operations, and private equity. Every day, the case method demanded an extensive level of preparation in advance of the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
"It appears that some career histories mattered more than others in helping to get the biotechnology firms founded and to move from private to public status," Higgins writes. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
surprises as you did your research for the book? A: The biggest one was how large a role private firms played in dragging the government back towards regulation. In most of the cases I studied, it was firms,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
engage in instrumental networking influences how dirty this networking makes them feel. Three laboratory experiments and a survey study of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Climate Change
On Sunday, 300,000 activists took to the streets of New York for the People's Climate March, the biggest climate protest in history, and the United Nations on Tuesday held the Climate Summit. In the spirit of Climate Week, we present insights from members of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (photo via LinkedIn) Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (photo via LinkedIn) It was building spreadsheets as an HBS intern at a private equity firm that convinced Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003)... View Details
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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion Course Number 1412 Professor Lauren Cohen Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 sessions Project “Investment firms of the ultra-wealthy spend as much as 72% of their... View Details
- 21 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion
President of Auditory Insight, a boutique management consultancy focused exclusively on hearing healthcare. We partner with senior leaders of device and biopharma hearing healthcare companies to develop successful commercialization strategies. We also consult to... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
but their passive investment nature offers few checks on those companies’ executives. Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds As investors increasingly demand investment opportunities that match their social beliefs, financial services View Details
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the private sector follows suit,... View Details
- Profile
Behrad Mahdi
leaders." Behrad will apply his newfound skills as a summer intern at Censeo Consulting Group, a boutique operations consulting firm recognized for its emphasis on values and work/life balance. "After HBS," Behrad says,... View Details
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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
corporate strategy, ranging from conglomerates and private equity firms to tightly related corporate entities and startups. It demonstrates that the same "better off" and "ownership" tests apply to every... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
a private equity firm focused on the North American energy sector with $15 billion in funds. “We’d walk in the woods and think how amazing it was that this kind of geography still exists in New York.” So... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
technologies could be used to create a captive one-to-one relationship between firms and consumers, so that customers could literally be viewed as assets. We should start to realize that things are not that simple. Ultimately, a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace