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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
nothing going right fast enough. The company’s iconic founder and CEO, Fred Smith, had done everything he could think of to save the organization, including gambling the only capital he had left in a desperate trip to Las Vegas... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
something we call "spontaneous private deregulation," and it is not new. Benign or otherwise, spontaneous deregulation is happening increasingly rapidly and in ever more industries. This article surveys incumbents'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
not only result in the unfair treatment of non-shareholder constituencies but can even end up hurting the shareholders in the long run. When we call on managers and directors to check their personal ethics at the door when they enter the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of concepts: how to orchestrate a large number of subsidiary deals, often... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
As I stand here today, giving this Commencement address, I have to pinch myself to believe it is actually happening. When I came to the United States in 1984 to attend graduate school — at that other noted institution in Boston on the wrong side of the river, View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
to represent the best insurance against old-age poverty, even though at a macro level they lead to an economy with more consumption than income, no resulting capital for investment, and so much risk aversion that little innovation and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
engaged in "status rationalization," emphasizing the benefits Japanese employees might obtain by learning English, and prevaricated on whether the change was temporary or durable, a process we call "status stability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
planned to pursue an aggressive schedule, moving the firm's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease imaging compounds through clinical trials and into the market. This involved expanding the firm's facilities and headcount, and he planned to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
right away. Join a protest or take virtual action. If you’ve never participated in a protest before, now is the time to do it! You can also take virtual action by signing petitions, engaging in social media campaigns, calling elected... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
deeper-seated reforms—if we're going to be able to get the economy back strongly on track. [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt is someone who's been on my mind a lot recently. In a moment of great crisis, Roosevelt—at least as the short version of history goes—reformed View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
challenge (or as we might more aptly call it, the opportunity) becomes how many to add to the board, not which one. There is a logic to this. It is not easy for women to rise through the corporate or partnership or government or academic... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Business School's commitment to international business education has expanded. When Dean Kim B. Clark announced plans last fall for the opening of an HBS research facility in Hong Kong, he underscored the importance of the School's Global... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to capitalize on it. Julia Trotman Brady (MBA 1997) Partner, Valo Ventures This is the most... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
productively in the United States. A previous repatriation tax holiday in 2004 induced the return of more than $300 billion to this country, and commentators across the political spectrum, including Andy Stern, formerly of the Service Employees International Union,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
the 21st century. “Africapitalism calls on the private sector to make long-term investment in industries that can create economic prosperity and social wealth.” The idea was inspired by Professor Michael Porter and his theories of... View Details
Keywords: April White