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- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
that increase the required size of a foreign target to ensure the tax benefits of an inversion can deter these transactions but can also lead to more substantive transactions. More substantive transactions are likely to involve the loss... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
structure for meetings where managers can quickly see which aspects of their strategy are succeeding and where they are falling short. The causal relationships enable managers to test whether the theory of their strategy is valid. Q: Does it matter what View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
you build it, they will come' kind of marketing." "Our goal is to foster habits of mind, ways to be present to one's work," he explained. "We realize that because of our small size we're not going to train people to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
shifted his research to project finance, one of the hottest applications of leveraged finance today. "The projects I study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm," he notes. Both the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
which asked Nielsen to remain as chairman and CEO for five more years. He agreed and doubled the size of the company during that time. With revenues of $165 million and 2,500 employees in five countries on three continents, Hazleton was... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
developed a loan guarantee program for Palestinian banks that enables them to increase the size of the loans they make to small and medium-sized businesses. “The views of businesspeople in the region tend to be more moderate,” notes... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
a current client and supplier, Google, which has shown an interest in expanding its reach beyond online search advertising and aims to use the entire gamut of video, audio, and print media to create advertisements for companies of all View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
threats, and to create and execute new strategies. The point is that management and leadership are very different, and when organizations are of any size and exist in environments which are volatile, both are essential to helping them... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
and negotiation of the system. Other HP units ran into similar difficulties. As he and Cannon wrote in their paper, "The most striking finding from these pay-for-performance experiments is the size of the gap between managers'... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
size and age in shaping intra- and inter-cultural trust. Relative firm size has a stronger negative effect on executives' cognition-based trust if their partners were of a different cultural ethnicity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
audiences to the theater than selling toys and other consumer product tie-ins, which is a significant revenue stream for studios. At Roadside Attractions, Eric d’Arbeloff (MBA 1993) has found a niche as a distributor of independent films such as the fast-food... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Nolan. The 5 most-engaging stories on social media How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19 Merck CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
the credit gap in small-dollar loans—those under $250,000, which is the size that 76 percent of small businesses say they need—is very real. While new private sector players like online lenders can help in this segment, they will... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program
you more insight, we checked in with leaders from the WSA to learn out more about their experiences and viewpoints. Here are the six most important things they thought you should know about being a woman at HBS. 1. You’ll find support and resources for women on campus... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
would cost less and would be a faster, healthier way to get to the $1 million mark. —Karen Barth (MBA 1986) They should grow the old-fashioned way: hold back enough cash to grow in a controlled manner. Borrowing money to double in size... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
through sheer size and number of transactions. Unfortunately, there are quite a few good reasons that the marketplace model doesn't work for reCommerce of used electronics (see my article in the March 2013 Harvard Business Review, 'Do You... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
Interactive was contracted in the Spring to provide a series of useful administrative tools including data updates, membership renewal, event management and web templates. Thanks to the work of this committee, clubs and associations of all View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
and series B financing? Dodi: Definitely. The bulk of venture capital comes from institutions, whether they be pension funds or endowments. But their ticket, their minimum investment size is typically $10 million or even more, and they... View Details