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16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors analyzed the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2011 (Revised August 2021)
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Gemini Investors

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Gemini Investors was a private equity firm focused on small and lower middle market businesses. Gemini's target investment size was between $4 million and $6 million and a typical portfolio company had revenue of between $8 million and $30 million. In early 2015,... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Investment Funds; Markets; Size; Financial Services Industry; United States

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14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Hythem El-Nazer, a young investment professional at TA Associates, believes he has found an attractive investment opportunity for the firm, MetroPCS, a wireless telecomm service provider. However, two months... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

US Healthcare Reform and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical; Health

December 2020
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XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives

By: Marco Di Maggio, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira

XP, an investment platform, was on the verge of defining whether to do an IPO or selling off a majority stake to Itaú Unibanco, Brazil´s largest financial conglomerate. Under the leadership of Guilherme Benchimol, XP´s co-founder and CEO, XP had risen to become the... View Details

Keywords: Financing Decisions; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Latin America; Brazil

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21 Mar 2016
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Risk Management―The Revealing Hand

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; Financial Services; Financial Services

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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Detailed curriculum information for each program associated with this unit can be found on the executive education website: Program for Leadership Development General Management Program Advanced Management Program Leading Change and Organizational Renewal High... View Details

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General Management - Faculty & Research

eleven major alliance mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major publicly-traded financial institutions–some of which joined these alliances. We use diff-in-diff and other approaches to... View Details

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

Whillans and her team conducted of more than 92,000 job ads found that the more benefits an employer described, the higher the application rates. Plus, when employers described benefits in detail, such as generous family leave policies, they pulled in more applications... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports)

securities; however, they can provide a useful model to students in understanding how investment professionals analyze an industry and what data points they find of most interest. Please note: analyst reports from... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

04 Mar 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field

Keywords: by Timothy Gubler, Ian Larkin & Lamar Pierce; Service

April 1997 (Revised July 1997)
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KPMG Peat Marwick U.S.: One Giant Brain

Demonstrates how organizations can move toward creation of processes and information technology infrastructures for effective knowledge management in order to enhance performance and productivity. More specifically, describes the knowledge management strategy of KPMG... View Details

Keywords: Internet; Information Technology; Knowledge Management; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States

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16 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

customers by matching them “by hand” with early suppliers (e.g., Etsy scoured craft fairs to sign up artisans); acquiring them in bulk (Uber ran promotions during concerts and events); and doing whatever it took to make their offerings attractive, even if it wasn’t... View Details

Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

have deeply downsized their staffs. “There’s a lot that happened in the situation that should sound alarm bells for others,” Montgomery says. “The cases point to risks that can arise when firms facing severe competitive threats adopt a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Sep 2011
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Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

much harder to predict. Because of this, it becomes very expensive for insurance firms to hold the capital necessary to cover catastrophic losses. So they turn to reinsurance firms, paying them a fee to assume that risk. Ideally,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

12 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

working paper Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services by María R. Ibáñez, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School; Jonathan R. Clark , an assistant professor at the University of Texas at San... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

March 2013 (Revised July 2014)
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Bay Partners (B)

By: Josh Lerner and Lauren Barley

In December 2012, Salil Deshpande has rejoined Bay Partners (Bay), which had been restructured following the 2010 departures of three of its general partners. Life was good for Deshpande: his firm had distributed roughly $1 billion to its limited partners (LPs) over... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry

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August 16, 2016

Gemini Investors

First Look: November 14, 2007

US Healthcare Reform and the Pharmaceutical Industry

XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives

Risk Management―The Revealing Hand

Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

General Management - Faculty & Research

First Look: March 6

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

Investment analyst reports (equity research reports)

Solving for Z

Rosabeth M. Kanter

The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field

KPMG Peat Marwick U.S.: One Giant Brain

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

Bay Partners (B)