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- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
millions of extra pounds in tax revenue collected. "I’ve seen behavioral economics come into play in a variety of contexts, ranging from employee compensation and investment decisions to corporate strategy." The letter is an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
our curriculum. Was HBS alone in not offering a consumer finance course? No. I surveyed the top twenty MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
director of Nedcor, South Africa's second-largest banking group. HBS professor Linda A. Hill's session, titled "Unbundling and Black Empowerment," featured an impressive panel of advocates for black economic progress. Vusi Khanyile,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception to operation to play a... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
those markets and potentially crash the economy. “We really want to protect the people who interact with, and rely on, the markets,” says Jones. “That could be a veteran, a teacher, or anyone who has their life savings invested in a 401K... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
since the Federal Reserve Board had helped to bailout investment bank Bear Stearns. Deflation, not inflation, had become a top concern. Interest rates were near zero percent. Five million jobs had been lost.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Arthur Rock
journey into venture capital began with an early stint in investment banking at Hayden, Stone in New York City. His natural affinity for finance led him to encounters with a number of small companies around... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
this situation, donations are likely to decline, investment surplus has declined and biotech partners are challenged to finance joint projects as well as their own operations. Beall is striving to find a cure for cystic fibrosis while... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
its plans to develop radical innovation even when it thinks highly of the market potential for the radical innovation. The incumbent does so to avoid validating the high market potential to the entrant, who may otherwise be encouraged to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
mechanics of private banking and federal finance correct. Their models are therefore fatally flawed, so their predictions of doom (and inflation) should not be taken seriously.” Is JohnfrmCleveland right? Is modern monetary theory a fancy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
penalties to infringement," says Cohen. Patent trolls bank that, in some cases, companies will settle rather than pay the time and monetary costs of fighting infringement lawsuits. In others cases, patent trolls seek sympathetic... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
the idea of a potential internship program began to grow. So, when Westphal read about Facily and was connected with Dzodan, the timing and pairing was ideal. As the first intern in Facily’s history, Westphal utilized his experience from View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
implemented by a developing country's government frustrated by widespread short-selling in the illiquid market for its currency; amid relatively sound economic fundamentals; when foreign direct investment was exempted from the... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal