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- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
was also a Student Sustainability Associate, which connected me with like-minded individuals who are interested in sustainability on campus. Through my time as an SSA and as a Club leader, I built up my relationship with fellow students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
of how the historic merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CBOT almost didn’t happen. She details the reasons behind the derivatives market’s spectacular growth and explains how derivatives affect the lives of average consumers worldwide by influencing... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
"Denial might be best categorized as a form of risk taking." Aruna Sharma pointed out that "It's all about buying time to see if something can be done to reverse the trend ." Joe Schmid opined, "Denial is the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
Dow, General Motors, Nestlé, and Petrobras) and smaller entrepreneurial firms (such as the U.K.'s AIFS and China's BabyCare) undertake critical financing, investment, risk management, and incentive management issues to take full advantage... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
the only way to reconcile stock valuations with fundamentals was to believe that the US economy would grow almost forever at rates never seen before or that investors had stopped caring altogether about risk... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
relationships with their competitors affect consumers' preferences. Through a series of experiments, we show that the competitive context in which a brand operates can affect consumers' purchase interest and purchase frequency. We show... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Environmental pressures, including the risk that we could destabilize the climate through the emission of green-house gases. Poverty and inequality, with fewer people taking greater pieces of the earnings pie. "Should business get... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
policymakers from developed countries have tended to dominate these debates. That may be changing in several interesting ways. Many policymakers in the developing world, as well as officials in the IMF and analysts at the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
intersection of higher education, economic development, and workforce development. And the common thread of all three of those things, particularly over the last 10 years in an accelerating way, has been the importance of talent. And it was really View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.”... View Details
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
earlier paper the authors discussed how D&O insurance can be used to reduce the governance risk facing insurers, by linking coverage to contractual obligations to follow best practice governance controls. In this paper they place... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Ryu Kawano
path." Putting his money and time where his mouth is, Ryu will use the summer to pursue his microfinance venture. "This is exactly the right moment to take risks — I'm doing it now." Long-term, Ryu plans on owning a... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
policy may reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating towards low dividend paying firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the interests of their institutional shareholders. Evidence is provided that both effects are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appropriate required rates of return as a function of investor risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Shad Membership Eligibility | About
for the current rates and membership information Membership Refunds If for any reason it is necessary to cancel your membership or one of your services refunds can be requested at the Member Services Desk. Domestic Partner Shad Hall... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
and women alike rated power as one of the main consequences of professional advancement. Our findings reveal that men and women have different perceptions of what the experience of holding a high-level position will be like, with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
technique. While Dulji Sum opined that "we are not anywhere close to using brain scans for hiring," he suggested that "this could be quite an interesting tool for career guidance." Debra Feldman elaborated on this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
magnitude of 3% to 7% lower than corresponding buy-and-hold fund returns. Using factor models of risk and the estimated dollar-weighted performance gap, we find that the real alpha of hedge fund investors is close to zero. In absolute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Ask A Coach: How Do I Find a Mentor?
importantly the failures. What missteps did they make that you could avoid? It is important when signaling you are ready to take on new challenges not to be too risk averse, but if you can foresee the pitfalls that snagged others on their... View Details