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- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
responsibility. The kidney dialysis and medical services firm Davita Health Care Partners is one company that has embraced such an approach. Because it takes mentorship seriously, the firm reaps the rewards... View Details
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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research
personalization tools to create numerous reports. You can even set up alerts for new company or firm developments and transactions. LSEG Workspace PE data includes investments, portfolio company and View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
four leading global food safety firms gives their testing a certain level of external validity that they may not enjoy by doing their own testing, although big companies such as Nestle remain strongly committed to in-house monitoring. In... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
2018 by Charles Scharf, who has focused on cleaning up the messes and restoring the confidence of regulators. These succession failures illustrate some of the risks companies face during CEO transitions, and they raise some obvious... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting people be at home, but now you can see more large establishments requiring folks to come back. I’ve been talking to the largest technology firms about this: They’ve created... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We determine, in a competitive setting, the optimal operating regimes for a firm that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent industry affect the internal development of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among 250 offices of a multinational... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
their own self-interest? Supporters say integrated reporting brings benefits to companies, including better risk management, development of strategies for long-term sustainability, and positioning of the company as a leader and innovator.... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
likely to be affected by climate change or related regulation and recommend steps it should take to address related risks while simultaneously seizing emerging opportunities for investment or innovation. On the engagement front, BEI... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM)?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
little to do with each other. This is a huge problem. A sustainable society requires that all companies be committed to sustainable strategies. Increasing social expectations regarding a company’s commitment to sustainability mean that View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 26 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto
wanted to be able to experiment and take career risks and HBS seemed to allow me to do that through the 2+2 program. The second reason I applied to HBS is because it felt like there was zero downside. In fact, the way I thought about it... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
harder than her male classmates to succeed. From her father, a Hungarian immigrant with no business training who bought New York City's Chelsea Hotel and turned it into one of the Big Apple's most famous addresses, she learned to take View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty Authors:Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut Publication:Marketing Science Abstract A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate future demand. But given that such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
strengthen consumer protections. The risk they run is that too stringent regulation could make it harder for borrowers in need to get money. In today's challenging economic climate and with high unemployment, "many Americans borrow... View Details