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The Cost of Friendship
By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov and Yuhai Xuan
We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from performance in venture capital. We find that venture capitalists who share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan. "The Cost of Friendship." Working Paper, 2014.
- 31 Jan 2011
- News
Texas Christian University honors James I. Cash Jr.
- 05 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover
- Program
Driving Digital Strategy
diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Senior executives who are responsible for shaping overall corporate strategy and driving digital strategy... View Details
- April 2010
- Course Overview Note
Managing Human Capital
By: Boris Groysberg
Managing Human Capital, a second-year elective course at Harvard Business School, seeks to create business leaders who understand human resources practices essential to firm performance and who think strategically about managing their own careers. This Managing Human... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent
biggest sports stage to cementing a legacy as a businessman, entrepreneur, and club owner. What’s the best way to build a team around a top performer? How do you value the asset of a star to the broader organization? And, how can an organization make a star’s power... View Details
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Programs & Events - Alumni
Progress in Your Career—on how to make sure your next career move is the right one More Podcasts Find out what's happening at clubs & associations around the globe Global Calendar View Details
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Business & Environment
opportunities in voluntary carbon markets, the role of businesses and governments in ensuring integrity, and how emerging trends—such as the blurring lines between voluntary and compliance markets—will shape the future. Mark also shares View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?
So much has changed since a groundbreaking study found that daughters of working moms often perform better in their own careers than daughters of stay-at-home moms—and are just as happy, to boot. Diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- June 2008 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Galper
Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career—his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a young boy in a family of entrepreneurs, Nalls had a reputation as a hard... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Experience and Expertise; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Galper. "Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls." Harvard Business School Case 808-167, June 2008. (Revised October 2012.)
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Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
year, supporting student founders in... Investing for Community and Capital Market Impact: SE Summer Fellow Emily Tekamp (MBA 2025) Emily Tekamp 07 Aug 2024 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore View Details
- September–October 2024
- Article
Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?
By: John D. Macomber
A family-owned and controlled conglomerate in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, has to decide what titles and authority to give to a daughter who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an... View Details
Keywords: Succession Planning; Power Grid; Family Business; Management Succession; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Côte d'Ivoire
Macomber, John D. "Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?" R2045M. Harvard Business Review (September–October 2024): 156–161.
- January 2020
- Article
The Job Rating Game: Revolving Doors and Analyst Incentives
By: Elisabeth Kempf
Investment banks frequently hire analysts from rating agencies. While many argue that this "revolving door" creates captured analysts, it can also create incentives to improve accuracy. To study this issue, I construct an original dataset, linking analysts to their... View Details
Keywords: Credit Rating Agencies; Investment Banking; Recruitment; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry
Kempf, Elisabeth. "The Job Rating Game: Revolving Doors and Analyst Incentives." Journal of Financial Economics 135, no. 1 (January 2020): 41–67.
- March 2004 (Revised April 2004)
- Background Note
Seeing What's on Red Auerbach's Mind
Analysis of an interview with Red Auerbach, HBR No. 87201. Alan M. Webber, who conducted the interview, probed for the lessons that Auerbach has learned from a long and productive career coaching and managing the Boston Celtics, a professional basketball team in the... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Research; Sports; Product Development; Communication Intention and Meaning; Sports Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and John T. Gourville. "Seeing What's on Red Auerbach's Mind." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-160, March 2004. (Revised April 2004.)
- 25 Nov 2015
- News
HHL Awards Honorary Doctorate to Harvard Professor Stefan H. Thomke
- 09 May 2018
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4 Ways Women Can Break Barriers by Breaking the Rules
- 26 Dec 2018
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If Your Company Is Going Through a Public Scandal, Should You Leave?
- 05 Oct 2018
- News
Will the Property Industry Change Before the Sea Level Does?
- January 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
De Passe Entertainment and Creative Partners
By: Linda A. Hill
After 24 years at Motown Industries, Hollywood executive Suzanne de Passe has decided to go out on her own to start two new businesses. The case describes de Passe's career from her beginning as Berry Gordy's assistant at Motown Records to her presidency of Gordy/de... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Business or Company Management; Entertainment; Personal Development and Career; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry; California
Hill, Linda A. "De Passe Entertainment and Creative Partners." Harvard Business School Case 494-013, January 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
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Launching New Ventures
backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Entrepreneurs launching... View Details