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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
of one-off contributions, constant mentoring and co-authorship with younger colleagues, distillation of advice into accessible and memorable forms, and investment in an institutional legacy. Beyond these aspects, which I elaborated in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
that required a massive amount of investment before it could take off,” says Yoffie, who served on E Ink’s board from 1999 to 2004. “The truism is that getting to that point takes longer and costs more money than the most pessimistic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
led the creation of Tata Hall, Chao Hall, and Klarman Hall. In an increasingly online world, why invest so much in the physical campus? When our campus was built, George F. Baker, our benefactor, said: “This school will not be judged by... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
starting companies. Maybe I should try to forget that I have an investment in several decades of a business career, and see if I can learn fresh, new things." I asked young people who were starting companies to tell me what they were... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Jason A. Kilar
traveled. For some reason, that is very motivating to me. When I came out of undergrad at University of North Carolina, everybody else was going into investment banking and consulting, and I was writing comic strips to try to get the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Matthew, and Michael Ewens Abstract—This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
The analysis finds no impact of financial incentives on learning but significant effects of both goal setting and counseling on real financial outcomes. These results identify important complements to financial education that can bridge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
'56), former head of McKinsey & Company worldwide and president of The Bendix Corporation and now chairman and CEO of Avenir, a private investment group, became founding chairman of the Trinity Forum in 1991. An "academy without walls,"... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. Unfortunately, there is little evidence about the validity of these ratings. We examine how well two of the most widely used ratings—those of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
the bearing and the surrounding components. “Our bearings are known for superior performance in harsh applications. This new line of wind energy bearings positions us to capitalize on a growing market,” says Timken. “We invest $78 million... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
twenty-first century, the distribution of both wealth and income became increasingly unequal. The top 5 percent of the income distribution saw their fortunes rise as both their livelihoods and assets grew. At the same time, real wages for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Exxon Mobil stock. After working for McKinsey & Company and Trammell Crow, he started a real estate investment firm and now runs Waco-based Vananne LLC, focused on commercial View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
some very interesting things happening. For example, in electronics, manufacturers need to have Best Buy as a partner. If you are investing a billion dollars on the next Galaxy launch at Samsung, you don't want your R&D to just become... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings with their medical providers in real time. A year and a half after launching the program, the health system’s internal startup, innovationOchsner,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
just doing financial models.” She is particularly proud of this and similar projects’ positive impacts on individuals’ lives. She cited reliable rents when landowners lease their land to solar or wind farms. This new type of “farming” means survival and a View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
There I was, a young HBS professor who had invested all this time writing one of my first cases, and I was nervous that they would refuse to sign off on it. I remember [the protagonist] standing up and walking away to stare at the wall... View Details
Keywords: Dean