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  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

315-060 The Basic LCA Framework No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-055 Restructuring JAL Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

is a simplistic view. A company's unique competitive circumstances should dictate the innovation portfolio it pursues. Because innovation cuts across functions, only senior leaders can set an innovation strategy. In doing so, they must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

A More Perfect Union

like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

excess returns on high yield and investment grade bonds are low and often significantly negative. The degree of predictability is large in both economic and statistical terms, with univariate R2 statistics as high as 30% at a 3-year... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016

growing faster than expenses for the second consecutive year. The resulting growth in cash from operations enabled HBS to continue to make strategic investments in priority areas while still ending the year with a healthy unrestricted... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

School Case 214-021 The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (A) This case concerns the proposed buyout of Acibadem, a leading hospital chain in Turkey. Abraaj, a MENA region private equity firm, proposes to make its first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2020
  • News

HBS Votes

K1 Investment Management, is leading an effort in his investment firm to give time off for voting for all K1 employees and over 5,000 portfolio company employees. K1 recently... View Details
  • Web

Policy - Business & Environment

2019 survey by Yale and George Mason University: 87 % of people surveyed supported investments in renewable energy (infrastructure and research) 82 % supported regulating GHG emissions (requiring companies to limit their pollution) 72 %... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the impact of the Yale University endowment's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

proliferation of accelerators, and continuation of VC investments have made it increasingly possible to start a business, and in some sectors entrepreneurs were able to attract funds without a real monetization strategy. I agree with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

policies that maintain a low level of average inflation.   Cases & Course MaterialsNovoCure Ltd. William A. Sahlman and Sarah Greene FlahertyHarvard Business School Case 810-045 Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

capital to fund its investment thesis, which was derived from Tomas and Rodrigo’s belief that the rise of Colombia’s middle class signaled an enormous untapped investment opportunity. Jaguar hoped to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

delegation of Chubb executives to discuss insurance issues. In the mid-1990s, Chubb opened representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen to do market research and assess the potential of the Chinese insurance market. In 2000, China authorized Chubb (one of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

and optimizing portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest digital encryption codes in seconds rather than centuries. (The day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.)... View Details
  • 07 Jan 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

drains," the proportion of foreign students studying in U.S. institutions of higher learning, or the likelihood that the U.S. will continue to lose its dominance in the development of new high-level ideas and know-how are overblown.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 20 Oct 2016
  • News

Smart Moves

“Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and by being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you should invest. You can make data-driven decisions, rather... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

with limited financial resources can then focus on supplying superior bottleneck modules, while outsourcing and allowing complementors to supply non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne