Professional Service Firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

Sooner or later, every company runs into challenges that force them to make tough trade-offs during the innovation process. Harvard Business School associate professor Rory McDonald calls these moments “tensions.” The streaming service... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

12 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

social innovation, as the delivery system for critical goods and services at scale, as the stewards of our cultural heritage, and as advocates for a more just and inclusive society. This SIP will take a closer look at how to be an... View Details

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Student Research - Doctoral

Tedards and Peter Tufano Business leaders are under pressure to address the climate crisis, but they can’t do so alone. Climate alliances can help leaders and firms be more ambitious, responsible, and effective in driving the systems... View Details

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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how markets work and firms compete to craft successful business strategies. 8 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Enroll by April 24 $1,850 Certificate Financial Accounting Professor V.G.... View Details

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

research is widely confirmed throughout the essays of the Handbook. Chandler was primarily concerned with understanding the growth of large, diversified, and professionally managed firms from the late 19th... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2012
News

E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

Palmer Organization 1984 Cofounds Summit Partners 1991 Establishes Stamps Family Charitable Foundation 2001 Becomes Founding Manager Partner at Summit 2004 Receives Outstanding Service Award, National Venture Capital Association About 10... View Details

September 2024
Case

InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility

By: John Macomber, Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken

Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by the high cost and high uncertainty of the project inception phase: the research and engineering and planning prior to financial close and start of construction. Could there be a new kind of... View Details

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10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

Abstract All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Aug 2010
News

A Lonely Crusader

2002, Ackman shorted MBIA’s stock and bought credit default swaps betting that the firm would tank. Then he went public with his bets and a 66-page research report detailing his case. What happened next would have broken a man possessing... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

Generational Changes In The Family Business Board The board of directors in the family firm usually changes over generations and as the ownership of the firm progresses through three distinct stages. 2... View Details

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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

In The Classroom In The Classroom Over the past several years, BFFS project members have been actively teaching courses on topics related to financial stability and behavioral finance. There are courses tailored for Harvard undergraduates, PhD students, and View Details

June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014

By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien

In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry

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21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Salesforce, which acquired the firm in 2021. Microsoft, meanwhile, was finally able to draw users to Teams, the free business communication platform it introduced in 2017 as part of Office 365. "Can these collaborative software platforms... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

Phillip Andrews, HBS Career & Professional Development, 617.495.6086, phandrews@hbs.edu . GO Fellowship applicants and recipients agree to abide by the HBS Community Values and the MBA Honor Code . Awards Award amounts are determined... View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

colleagues and share feedback in ways that enable them to develop and deliver Take charge of your professional development as you navigate the challenges of transitioning from an individual contributor to a leader Who Will Benefit Early-... View Details

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

sectors; and supports more than 700 venture teams each semester. What are the support systems and resources provided at the labs to student and alumni ventures? What sustains this community is the incredible team here that works fully in View Details

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

service relationships is neither well understood, nor consistently factored into service design. In this paper, two laboratory experiments and one field experiment, conducted in financial View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 20, 2024
Article

It’s Time to Unbundle ESG

By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel

ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to... View Details