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- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
a hotel room at age 11, and among the challenges that something like that poses is that it doesn't give you any real grounding. And this is one line from the book. You say, “Having bounced around as much as I did, I had to set my moral... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
traditional sports are taking notice: Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), owner of the New England Patriots football team, recently announced an investment in a new esports team that will compete in the first-person shooter game Overwatch. “What... View Details
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Jan Pianca
Jan (MSc, International Management, Bocconi University) is the Educational Programs Assistant Director Europe at the HBS Europe Research Center in Paris. He focuses on European employer outreach to develop and manage the School’s relationships with European companies.... View Details
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- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Drawing on generous contributions from the search fund community as well as his own experience, he sheds light on how this community converted $1.4 billion of investments into $8.7 billion, with $1.8 billion going to the entrepreneurs.... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance Authors:Daniel Bergstresser and Jeffrey Pontiff Abstract Taxes have a first-order impact on portfolio returns. Most research mistakenly assumes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
65-year-old person in Southern California and everybody in between. We think there’s a real appetite for this. With our initial free product, we got to over 100,000 subscribers in under 12 months. We’ve since shifted to a subscription... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
fragrances, and toiletries brands were bought and sold, sometimes multiple times. It was clear that a large company from a different industry, whether pharmaceuticals, tobacco, or soap, could buy a good collection of cosmetics and fragrances brands. It was also clear... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock market... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
self-interested. Our cases show that regardless of the precise motivational starting point, as long as cross-sector collaborations continue to serve the interests of all partners, their motivations are likely to evolve. In most real life... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
that assigns a real number to any coalition, S N, such that d(S) = -d(N\S). A game of threats is not necessarily a coalitional game as it may fail to satisfy the condition d(Ø) = 0. We show that analogs of the classic Shapley axioms for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses were ready to invest in Cuba and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
job.” Says Bremer, “Repairing the damage inflicted by Saddam — the material, human, and psychological damage — is a huge task. We will only succeed at if we have a real partnership between the coalition, the international community, and... View Details