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- 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015
over time and may be tempted to ape someone else's system, and so they will find it difficult to align different parts of the organization with shared priorities. As Corning, a leader in glass and materials science, has found, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
subset of countries. This paper uses a difference-in-difference analysis that compares US equity holdings in affected and unaffected countries. The international investment responses to JGTRRA were substantial and imply View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
Nelson Peltz in 2012. He wanted to split Kraft’s global business by spinning off its North American grocery products unit, which Rosenfeld wound up leading as an international business renamed Mondelez.... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
to drag the economy into a recession. The Bush administration approved a fiscal stimulus package exceeding $150 billion. Interest rates had been repeatedly cut at the fastest pace in decades, to 2.25% as of March 2008. The Fed, in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship
founder-related programs, resources, and guidance. Joiner Students interested in joining a startup (internship or full-time role) and are seeking opportunities to build relevant skills and understand the startup recruiting process. Investor Students interested in... View Details
- 27 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership
In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
one standard deviation more than average—cuts $21,000 from the median award of $175,000. “As soon as one party is substantially more informed than the other, it’s going to result in pretty unfair outcomes,” Egan says. More incentives that... View Details
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
are not driven by reverse causality. These patterns are not driven solely by common law nations such as the United Kingdom and United States, but also hold in Continental Europe. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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John Rogers
sustainability. My generation faces a number of challenges and I am excited to help develop solutions that meet them. On an individual level, I look forward to working with farmers and seeing in their eyes the same love, grit and... View Details
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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About
force in US finance and industry. At the age of 23, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank, where he worked as a teller. Just 14 years... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
know how to do it." The third thing is team. We look for engineering vision and execution, sales, and entrepreneurship in a team. Typically, it's at least two people; sometimes it's three. In the early stages, I tend to invest behind... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
individual ethics and as a specific version of a broader argument made for centuries by theorists from Hume to Hayek. I also provide evidence of an example in which real-world policy judgments are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
stagnant. By 2007, declining home prices and rising rates on adjustable rate mortgages triggered a wave of foreclosures, causing devastation to millions of Americans. Firms like Lehman Brothers pursued an aggressive strategy of borrowing... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
they can relocate their headquarters to a hub, as GE recently did (but make them much smaller). A less expensive strategy is to create an innovation lab or corporate outpost in a talent cluster, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Events - Business & Environment
and is a faculty affiliate of BEI. He has been working in climate tech entrepreneurship and venture capital for a number of years, and he is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for several companies and VC/PE View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
directly estimate the practical capacity of the resources supplied as a percentage of the theoretical capacity. There are various ways to do this. As a rule of thumb, you could simply assume that practical... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
to wonder whether having shed much of her femininity will compromise her effectiveness as a leader. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406096 PublicationsFinding Lost Profits: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
Conference as a student. Nneka made an impact on the founders at that conference and, three years later after working in healthcare consulting and View Details