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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using capital to benefit underserved... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
and suburban areas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52059 Financing Payouts By: Farre-Mensa, Joan, Roni Michaely, and Martin Schmalz Abstract—We study the extent to which firms rely on the capital... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Dionne Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Startup Operations Christina Wallace Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Venture Capital Journey Jeffrey Bussgang Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Financial Management of Smaller Firms (also listed under Finance)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
of the Organizational Behavior unit and the HBS Leadership Initiative, believes that the process of becoming a manager requires both a significant psychological transition and a considerable amount of on-the-job training. In the second... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Ashish Dhawan (MBA ’97), founder and senior managing director of ChrysCapital, a private-equity firm based in Mumbai. Even so, Dhawan believes that a growing awareness of the outside world and a sense of competitiveness in the Indian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
has to know the answer to four basic questions. Your setting for this span is determined by the kind of behavior you want to see. To ensure compliance with detailed directives, hold managers to narrow measures. To encourage creative... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
focused now on this problem set. DM: In addition to teaching at HBS, Matheson is also a special partner at the Engine, an MIT-founded venture firm with heavy climate tech investments, and senior advisor venture partner at Breakthrough... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
to raise additional capital. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53962 forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
can achieve. Should he accept the offer provided by a private equity firm that is buying up other small competitors in his industry? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807125 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
bankrupt the company. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53093 2017 The Moral Responsibility of Firms Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—A long-standing question... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Plan Contest taught me how to ground a good idea in the reality of industry by talking to as many people as possible. That was a very good discipline that I still apply,” says Machiels, a partner at private equity firm Pegasus Capital... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has already started to be observed. We show that the cost of making it individually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Program 26 times, and daytime program twice. Both are records. He has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Philippines and Vienna. Before becoming a professor, he owned and operated two manufacturing View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly inexperienced entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School working paper, three experts on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has within them an intrinsic desire... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel