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  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

the move to remote and will continue that plan in 2021. “What Google did especially well when rolling out a remote internship program (in lieu of their in-person program in 2020) was make a decision early and then clearly communicate that... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January – March 2012
  • Article

Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

By: Luis M. Viceira
This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with consumption growth, and in the volatility of bond returns. A robust stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Volatility; Forecasting and Prediction; Interest Rates; Inflation and Deflation; Investment Return; Risk and Uncertainty; Currency Exchange Rate; Cash Flow; Stocks
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  • October 2001 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Negotiation; Ethics; Social Issues; Economic Sectors; Investment; Cost vs Benefits; Project Finance; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Finance; Mining Industry; Chad; Cameroon
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  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

advisable or even necessary to invest in a response. In other cases, you may as well save your money, according to the researchers. The study also concluded that even though high-end customers can be fickle, a company that sustains a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

valuable insights for founders and universities as they invest more into the higher-risk, early-stage research that often results in meaningful innovation. Companies have long teamed with academia, but such partnerships might become more... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

and the consequences of CEO succession and selection decisions for subsequent firm performance and strategic choices. Industry wisdom, company relationships, and technological expertise all matter in our new knowledge-based enterprises.—... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2013
  • News

Selling Crafts with a Story

office. They'd touch base for an hour, give each other homework, and then head to their day jobs—Koss working in private equity, investing in retail companies; Paranjape running a bricks-and-mortar lifestyle store. Then they'd hit the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon; crafts; hobbies; ecommerce; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Arts, Entertainment
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

Overwhelming evidence and experience shows, however, that most companies are unable to transfer employee learning into changes in individual and organization behavior or improved financial performance. Put simply, companies are not getting the return they expect on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

Dilip Soman Abstract Decision researchers have long been interested in behaviors that deviate from rational choice. Of these, the compromise effect has received considerable attention, with it repeatedly shown that the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Choosing the Right Student Loan | MBA

Choosing the Right Student Loan By Katie Kelsall on February 1, 2021 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email At HBS, we consider getting your MBA a shared investment in your future . This means that while we offer... View Details
  • Profile

Nelson Yuan

investment banking at Morgan Stanley and two at the Carlyle Group, where he worked in private equity and debt investment. Efficient way to learn business As Nelson’s career matured, he “didn’t find finance fulfilling.” But making the... View Details
  • Profile

Allie Corless

of playing to my strengths in shaping my career path. My experience at HBS among my peers and in the classroom was ideal for testing my weaknesses; post-graduation, my understanding of my strengths is helping me to decisively build my... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies

selected, on-purpose best, which is how anything you say will be heard. Project Passion. In all your communications with prospective employers, make sure that your level of enthusiasm comes across. Do your research about the company and show that you are willing to... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

that participants who chose by mind wandering would evaluate their outcome as inferior to participants who deliberated (Experiment 1), participants who used mind wandering as a decision strategy evaluated their choice just as positively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

retailers is not too high, having an online channel can actually increase investment in store assistance levels (e.g., greater shelf display, more-qualified sales staff, floor samples) and decrease profits. Consequently, when the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

savings plans made people less likely to save for retirement. Instead of being motivated by their peers’ admirable investment activity, they were demoralized. As writer Christian Camerota explains in an article about the research:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

Note 607-074 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607074 Tickle Harvard Business School Case 807-100 Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2023
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its... View Details
Keywords: April White