Filter Results:
(2,223)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,223)
- People (3)
- News (296)
- Research (1,640)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (852)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,223)
- People (3)
- News (296)
- Research (1,640)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (852)
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
communities." Today, the WWB network provides financial services in more than forty countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the same time, this global organization helps microfinance... View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of them. Rehiring public sector employees who were laid off... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Professor of Business Administration. His interest in expanding the reach of this work drove the launch of the COVID-19 Business Impact Center, an online hub for the School’s intellectual capital related to the pandemic. Research is categorized under six broad areas:... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
solve these problems. Palepu: Rosabeth, you mentioned the structure and design of the organization as possibly contributing to the current problems. What improvements can be made? Kanter: We need more external information—both financial... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
dividends increased every year. This highly successful strategy and its resulting financial performance harbored one potential flaw. Over the decades the company had built impressive capabilities in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Industrial customers prefer to see products and services unbundled and priced separately. Gimmicks are out; reliability, durability, safety, and performance are in. New products, especially those that address the new consumer reality and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
action,” she adds. Of course, many alums will continue to follow the more traditional path of doing well professionally before taking up social entrepreneurship in later life. A generation of economic prosperity has made it possible for an increasing number of View Details
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
noticed trends emerging. “Most companies I worked with received an increasing amount of inbound questions for greater disclosure on their ESG performance from their lenders, shareholders and regulators, but were often ill-equipped to... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture? By: Gibbons, Robert, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal incentive contracts. For... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
River in identifying investments, performing due diligence, and working with portfolio companies and asks how Blue River should build itself into a top-tier private equity fund, particularly as more and more foreign firms target the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on performance pay before the U.S. Senate and served as a consultant to many international companies. The issue of to what extent the financial crisis was driven by misaligned pay incentives is one of the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just as vital... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
that improves our environment, strengthens our communities, empowers our people, and delivers performance for our clients. Clark's role prior to HBS was a Manager (Solutions Analysis) at Resource Environmental Solutions LLC. Devon Sanford... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
focused on the phenomenon of bankruptcy. A consultant to or board member of numerous corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies over the years, Hayes expressed his aversion to Chapter 11 proceedings for companies trying... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
directors—that made it an easy decision for me to join the fund," says Hammond. "I know from my teaching and consulting experience that diversity leads to higher performance and better financial results."... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman