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- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Dan Lennox-Choate
glorious light. "I went in blind," Daniel says, about his transition from platoon leadership in Afghanistan, to becoming the executive officer of a headquarters company responsible for logistics and operations, stationed in... View Details
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Robert Duke Biederman
boardroom. I want to do things like that for my kids. When I was a little boy, my mom was a lawyer in private practice. She left work early and took me to the park for ice cream and a ride on the carousel. I want to build a View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
A Course Correction at Chris-Craft
Julius (MBA 1988) helped steer venerable boating brand Chris-Craft into calmer waters. Heese and Julius are the founders of the private equity firm Stellican, which—as detailed in the story—focuses on “rescuing neglected heritage brands,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the next twenty years. All this... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
in lieu of higher salaries. The claim simply ignores the fact that a lack of cash need not be a barrier to compensating executives.— Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan, and Robert C. Merton Even privately held View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
recommendations but it is unlikely that these funds will ever be raised. National governments, deeply unimpressed by the WHO's inefficiencies and leadership deficit, will be reluctant to give more. Foundations may provide a little. Some View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
Dozens of blue-chip advertisers have flocked to the site; according to Carpenter, iVillage may be the only private content company with more than $1 million a month in revenue. Although the View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
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Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization
to filter for organizations using criteria such as subject, location, and classification. Capital IQ - Profiles of public and private companies and nonprofit organizations. Screen for companies and... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
her rationale for taking her research to the field. "I didn't believe and still don't believe that I could address these questions outside of a company context," she said. "Where else could I track creativity in the wild?" Leslie Perlow,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Franklin R. Anderson Classroom, Aldrich Hall 11 | About
private investment company that he founded in 1988. While a student at HBS, he became dear friends with Anderson and was fascinated by Anderson’s stories about starting businesses in the Hough ghetto of... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
Growing up as the son of a foreign service officer, Tom Dean spent much of his youth in Asia and developed a curiosity about American business. After graduating from the University of Virginia and working at Irving Trust Company in New... View Details
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
therefore critical to long-term revenue growth for most firms, and poor alignment means both direct and opportunity costs for companies. But it's especially critical for owner-president, privately held, and entrepreneurial firms. They are... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
public companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
The Green Industrial Strategy Project More Research Projects The Green Industrial Strategy Project examines how business and government can create, scale, and compete in clean tech markets to accelerate decarbonization. As clean technologies have entered the mass... View Details
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Emerging Market/Frontier Market Fellowship Resources
In-depth reports for frontier market countries and sectors. Company/Data Analysis Capital IQ: A wide range of public and private company information worldwide. For a multimedia learning module on... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Wooldridge, who... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
Ramana Nanda, and James McQuadeHarvard Business School Case 812-072 In 2011, SecondMarket was an online platform that facilitated secondary transactions of illiquid assets, including private company stock.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne