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- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
could fail, but founders and investors who have already been burned by playing with fire take a very different view. One experienced advisor of startups observed, "If you go into business with money from friends and family, then you... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
amount) and to poor advice (extreme estimates that were $5 or $10 off the mark). Even more worrisome, she found that advisors took advantage of the anxious guesser's poor judgment by giving bad advice to increase their own profit.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
senior advisor at Steuben Glass in New York who operates her own consultancy. "It's a great art to define what relevancy means for your brand while keeping its heritage alive. It's a matter of catering to existing clients while... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
judgment accuracy; little is known about the interpersonal consequences of the advice-seeking process. In this paper, we investigate the interpersonal consequences when an advisor believes his or her advice will be ignored. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire specialist outside advisors to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
it’s the best way to do business and it certainly won’t set you apart from your competitors. Many entrepreneurs are getting advice from old-school investors and advisors who saw it done a certain way that worked in their day, but that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Gyaana. Professor Allen Grossman, our advisor for the field study and the business plan, has been instrumental in shaping our ideas and structuring our thoughts. Q: What are the next steps for Gyaana? A: We have three critical priorities... View Details
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
shareholder agreement, there will be less to argue about, and it's easier to keep the process orderly. Prepare For The Day Most family companies that live long enough will face the need for a buyout of one or more shareholders. You should get ready for this likely... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
were proposed. Paula G commented that "Boards need to become more involved to protect the interests of the owners they must look outside to trusted advisors for compliance." Hughe said, "One way to get compliance is to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
and advisor to Alignable, put the team in touch with the company’s CEO. Alignable members received a link to the survey March 26. More than 5,800 responses from companies with fewer than 500 employees were collected within one week.... View Details
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
setup is as unobtrusive as sitting in front of a computer monitor. Eye movements are captured by an optical sensor using infrared light reflected off the cornea. When his advisor at Michigan showed him a huge dataset collected from... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Experiments 1A and 1B found that advice influenced participants more when they thought it came from an algorithm than when they thought it came from other people. This effect was robust to presenting the advisor jointly or separately... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
mutual funds and the income the funds earned from securities lending. Securities lending involved temporarily transferring securities from mutual funds managed by Star Advisor to short sellers and other investors. Income from these loans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
strived for the formal integration of risk management with performance management (the risk function as 'Strategic Controller'). The achievement of the Strategic Advisor role in some banks and the Strategic Controller role in others,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some shareholders about Hikma’s reliance on a combined chairman/CEO position, the long tenure of some directors, and the company’s approach to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713480-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 210-047 Five and Six Dulles Station Cricket Real Estate Advisors needs to decide if they should invest in a proposed joint venture development with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
with these companies in a variety of roles, including those of founders, shareholders, or managers of their own family's firm, as well as those of non-family managers and employees, investors or business partners (e.g., private equity investors), and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
substantial investment of $3 million to $5 million and work extensively with the management team as strategic advisors to help them build that organization. And in fact, some of our investment partners have made significant strides—real... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
paper details the results of nine studies showing that advisors not only get offended when their guidance is disregarded, but they may punish those colleagues by denigrating them, distancing themselves—and in some cases, even severing the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
replaced financial advisors with robo-advisors, which use big data and algorithms to determine the best places to put clients’ money—and appeal to a whole new generation of investors. Technology replaces the financial View Details