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  • 15 Jan 2009
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance

difficult than another. Can I Resist The Temptations Of Success? Resisting the Seductions of Success "The basic problem with the flow of success... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

Fibrosis Foundation: Venture Philanthropy Funding for Biotech Harvard Business School Case 808-005 In 2001, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated acquired the San Diego-based biotech company, Aurora Biosciences. The combination of Vertex's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January–February 2013
  • Article

Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities

By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations... View Details
Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Business Growth and Maturation; Profit; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trends; Management Practices and Processes; United States
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  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

the free international flow of goods and is core to many international trade agreements. The day medical schools, medical-device companies, and continuing medical education facilities located abroad might... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 18 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

The fourth year of Harvard Business School’s Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) came during a month of national upheaval and under the ever-darkening cloud of the global pandemic.... View Details
  • August 2012
  • Article

A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending

By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda
We use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks-where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions-give larger loans to small firms and those with "soft... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Customers; Financing and Loans; Credit; Organizational Structure; Banks and Banking; Governance Compliance; Competitive Strategy
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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders their initiatives and performance within the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) domains. Disclosure of non-financial reports has generated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the climate space and asked them the following, “What... View Details
  • January 2017 (Revised August 2017)
  • Case

Earl Gordon - Eastern Circle

By: Steven Rogers and Greg White
This case follows an African-American entrepreneur through the process of sourcing a potential acquisition, valuing a company, and securing the funding to purchase the company. This entrepreneur must decide if he should close the deal and which financing term sheet to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Manufacturing; LBO; Leveraged Buyout; Entrepreneurship; Term Sheets; Deal Structuring; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost vs Benefits; Cash Flow; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Process; Valuation; Value Creation; California
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  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

by $2.1 trillion in 2010 dollars. By either measure, cash flows received from abroad exceeded 160% of net investments, implying that foreign investment over these periods was dynamically efficient. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Going Green at HBS

conservation, eliminate the potential annual discharge of some 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the environment. Also at HBS, the Hamilton Hall renovation project, begun this past summer, is using “green”... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • October 1996 (Revised January 1998)
  • Case

Sony Corporation: Car Navigation Systems

By: John A. Quelch
In the summer of 1996, Masao Morita, president of Sony Personal Mobile Communication Co., contemplated how to formulate its multinational marketing strategy for the fast-changing car navigation systems market. Morita needed to resolve the conflicting views within his... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Standards; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
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  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

characterizing these networks, our primary measure is "hierarchy," defined as the degree to which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

these programs to exist beyond the global pandemic because of the unique ability to connect with students across geographies and expand the pool of potential candidates. To... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count

engaging. Keep the conversation flowing and limit the amount of time you are talking at students by sharing details about your company and hiring process in advance. Within your Company Conversation event... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 10 Jan 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Miguel McKelvey Build the ‘Culture Operating System’ at WeWork?

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport
  • January 2011
  • Supplement

Matrix Capital Management (C)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
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  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

CEOs need to roll up their sleeves and learn more about the customer-facing sides of their businesses, like sales. Source: AlexBrylov Let’s face it: To most C-suite executives, sales processes are often an afterthought or a somewhat... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

Four alumni ventures from distinctly different industries and geographies have been chosen to pitch at the 2017 alumni New Venture Competition on April 25 on the HBS campus. This year's finalists were selected from among 17 high-caliber... View Details