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- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
social entrepreneurial skills to a corporate board that wants a unique perspective. “I would love to see the day where we don’t have to talk about achievement gap, technical divide, or schools-to-prisons pipelines, because they don’t... View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
apparel and footwear, when City Year requested fifty pairs of boots for its youth service corps program. "In the philanthropic relationship," Austin observes, "each side benefits modestly. The NPO receives funding, goods, or services,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
According to this way of thinking, Mayer has assumed that the personal lives and identities of her work-at-home employees are uniformly at odds with her corporate goals. Yet there is certainly some subset of remote workers who are... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
feel good, especially when it comes to our purchasing decisions. To that end, many major corporations have begun to take special interest in how understanding the human brain can help them better understand consumers. Enter a nascent but... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
that HBS alumni have gone into the world and done just that - today, and in decades past - and have seen their products and services become both pervasive and influential in the American economy. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
healthy workers, benefit their reputations, and engender greater consumer and employee loyalty. Healthy communities also have more money to spend on non health care products and services than unhealthy ones. Underappreciated benefits... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
Boris Groysberg addresses attendees of the HBS Executive Education program Women on Boards. (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Last year, Paula Davila Martinez (GMP 18, 2015) decided she wanted to have an impact beyond her corporate role as a... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
those folks are not going to be part of an organization that does not have good values. And, you know, we try to build in corporate values that just briefly they’re respect, integrity, genuine caring, hospitality, teamwork, excellence and... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
millennials of the merits of their company; others pay lip service to their concerns by making superficial policy changes. Companies struggling to recruit millennials should consider GE’s example of bold action and completely rethink the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
unconditional bonuses. The results have implications for companies trying to use bonuses to more effectively manage their salespeople. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53260 forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reply: Do Powerful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2022
- Case
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Julia Kelley
In December 2021, more than a decade after its founding, Goldman Sachs’s 10,000 Small Businesses program was still going strong — and the firm now needed to evaluate potential program modifications to reach a wider group of small business owners. Launched in the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Government and Politics; Knowledge; Knowledge Dissemination; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Networks; Social Enterprise; Society; Strategy; Demographics; Diversity; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Julia Kelley. "The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program: 2009-2021." Harvard Business School Case 322-052, March 2022.
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
rather by telecommunications carriers. It's the carriers who create design specifications for the manufacturers to meet, and services are largely tied into the carrier's proprietary network. "There are lots of things we'd like to put... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
corporate culture. Pro bono work At Intuit, we give free tax preparation software to any American with an adjusted gross income of $25,000 or less — about 45 percent of the population. The tax system is so mind-bendingly complex that it's... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-096.pdf Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Being Rated (Revised May 2008) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We examine how firms respond to third-party ratings of their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2014
- Working Paper
Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting
By: Kyle Travis Welch
This study examines how accounting has informed private equity diversification claims and demand for private equity investments. Despite research showing private equity lacks portfolio diversification benefits, those marketing private equity assets continue to... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value; Access To Capital; IAS 39; FAS No. 157; FASB; IASB; ASC 820; Covariance Risk; Accounting Beta; Accounting; Private Sector; Valuation; Corporate Finance; Asset Management; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; North and Central America
Welch, Kyle Travis. "Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting." Working Paper, January 2014.
- March 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [509042]. View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Brazilian street girls gain job skills and start their own businesses. After returning to the United States in 1994, she served as economic development director for Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation in Roxbury, Massachusetts,... View Details
- July 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
AllHerb.com: Evolution of an E-tailer
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Christina L. Darwall
Serial entrepreneur Ken Hakuta, in the second year of his latest venture, reconsiders his original strategy of maintaining an independent, self-funded, self-led company. His Internet herbal remedy company, AllHerb.com, has already enjoyed considerable success with its... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry
Amabile, Teresa M., and Christina L. Darwall. "AllHerb.com: Evolution of an E-tailer." Harvard Business School Case 801-099, July 2000. (Revised August 2000.)
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
board papers, policy papers, management strategy reports, business proposals, a commission of inquiry report, minutes of meeting, corporate letters, audit reports, opinion editorials and blog articles. The author also taught a course on... View Details
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