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  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

  Cases & Course MaterialsAnalyzing New Venture Opportunities Harvard Business School Note 809-163 The note describes a systematic process for framing and researching the issues that should be analyzed in the course of considering a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Boston derails his life. Expelled from school, with a cloud over his head, he jumps at a chance opportunity to interview for a job in Paris, hoping for a fresh start away from everyone who knows his past. Alone in a foreign land, Mason is... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

companies a clear view of risks to and opportunities in their own strategy. Second, One Report speaks with one voice to all stakeholders, who can even engage with the company via Web 2.0 tools and technologies. One Report is thus an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2022
  • News

Lesson Plans

accidental, as Khan relates in his TED Talk from 2011. TED Talk: I was an analyst at a hedge fund and I was in Boston and I was tutoring my cousins in New Orleans remotely. And I started putting the first YouTube videos up, really just as... View Details
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

long-term growth with disruptive potential, Summa invested in four thematic areas that were mapped to megatrends outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—trends Summa believed presented long-term growth opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2022
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

pond: “The great thing about working in finance in India was the opportunity to influence the evolution of the country’s financial institutions and regulatory structures. Very early on, I was part of the group that helped set up a second,... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

out of touch with the realities of the poor. They tend to come from the upper economic classes and primarily interact with people like themselves. Because of this difference in world view, corporate leaders may overlook crucial business View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

of investment because of whims: Investment managers or hedge fund managers can pull the money out of one country and put it into another or into gold or dollars. And if a lot of investors do this at once, the country could experience a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Meal Plan

Holdings, a $300 million fund with investments in several restaurant concepts including Tatte Bakery, CAVA, Life Alive, BJ’s Restaurants and Clover Food Labs. Christian, can you walk me through how the management team at Inspire Brands... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995 to 2002, we find that the shadow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

between what business is and what it can be, the actual versus the ideal. Every one of us can contribute to widening that gap, or to narrowing it by raising the bar. We will have countless opportunities to choose. That is really what I... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

The Long Run

entrepreneur—would take him far away from Calhoun, he returned in 1997 to give his three daughters the opportunity to grow up in the close-knit community he remembered from his childhood. He continued his work across the private and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

opportunities to develop skills (“crucible experiences”) and a greater motivation to relocate out of the challenging context. We also find that managers deployed to a challenging context early in their careers continue to experience... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

This Is What I Do

early pioneer of this proactive approach, also undertaken by Kathy Giusti’s MBA 1985 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and John Crowley’s MBA 1997 Amicus Therapeutics.) The MJFF demands accountability and results, brings together academics and pharma/biotech... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

commit to funding of any particular transaction. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-106.pdf Leveraging Team Familiarity to Handle Uncertainty: A Resource-based View of Team Performance Authors:Heidi K. Gardner,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

infrastructure and ready talent, and an underdeveloped consumer market. Some innovators, however, have succeeded by building franchises to serve poorer consumer segments; tapping the vast opportunity represented by nonconsumption;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced during each phase of her career and how she managed them. Lagarde started her career... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman