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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
solutions between sessions, and then get feedback and analysis from participants and faculty when they return to HBS. TGM's pool of collective experience was also cited by other participants as a key asset of the course. Jeffrey D.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
affordable education for all. As he once said of North Carolina's citizens, "In a sense, we are a large family. We will try to direct the proper proportion of our strengths and assets to each member of the family." A Charlotte native,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
improving market share, for example, might target a company where sales have been stagnant for a couple of quarters. Demonstrated profitability is a key competitive asset for older MBAs. “You may be looking for a job after being laid off,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
if one excludes new start-ups, most new capital is provided by debt. Of course, liquidity in the stock market does enable investors to capture gains on their investments, and it also enables mergers and acquisitions. To provide adequate liquidity, however, an View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
commercial buildings in the asset mix. Cities don't claim that office buildings, retail malls, or factories were built for the Games. Even Olympic housing is seldom successfully transformed into apartments or public housing once the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
underlying price of the asset is increasing. It lures people to overextend credit and to overinvest on the prospect that they too will benefit before the music stops. In this case, the music stopped, and as we know, people are falling off... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
hard to think about taxing corporations without figuring out what to do with their foreign profits. As one example, more than half of GE's assets are not in the United States now, and close to half of GE's profits are abroad as well.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, and regulated. It also reviews how funds invest and gather assets in countries... 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
- Portrait Project
Amy Yamner
the decisions that would shape our own lives. My word was COMPASSION. I want to build schools. My assets will be the lives I have improved, my liabilities the ones I have yet to reach. I want to create value through giving children... View Details
- Fast Answer
Industries: financial analytical data and tools
U.S. companies and non-U.S. companies. Covers 25 years of summary M&A statistics, unit divestitures, management buyouts, and specific asset sales. Ibbotson's Stocks, bonds, bills and inflation - SBBI Yearbook
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- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
Jen Wong (MBA 2004), COO of Reddit (Illustration by John S. Dykes) “I met Steve [Huffman] at SFO, I think at like 6:00 AM. We were sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors. ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge flows and active... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
write an exciting case about this topic." Although Becker never spoke with Jules Kroll directly while writing the case, Kroll's reputation is legendary enough to speak for itself. The corporate intelligence firm he started in the early 1970s was just a decade... View Details
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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
investing, managing, and developing investments in real estate and private asset backed companies. The course will be divided into three modules. The first module will focus on portfolio construction and understanding investment risks... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
officer and managing director at New York–based BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, Breitfelder talked to Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) about an area that isn’t always seen as a match for MBA skills. YY: Why do you think you... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
to be a contrarian? Likewise, during a bubble’s revulsion phase, established corporations face interesting opportunities to acquire valuable assets at fire sale prices. One surprise from the early 2000s was how few corporations exploited... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
from its existing term loan lender that includes some aggressive and unusual features. This includes the requirement that, immediately upon filing for Chapter 11, School Specialty undertake to sell its assets under Section 363 of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
The social sector is big business. In the United States alone some 1.5 million nonprofits and other social ventures have combined revenues of $700 billion and control assets valued at $2 trillion—a seemingly substantial arsenal to tackle... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne