Investment Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

the spectrum, which was part of what drove me to enroll in the MBA program. What influenced your decision to go into clean tech? I’m definitely passionate about the environment and interested in finding ways to contribute to solutions to... View Details

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Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN

family-oriented. At the end of SELPI, for example, we have a graduation ceremony where executives bring their families to celebrate and take pictures. For these executives and their families, receiving HBS alumni status is a big milestone. Families are part of the... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

sales. Tensions escalated: Komatsu saw Dresser as backward and unresponsive; Dresser complained of learning about key Komatsu decisions after the fact. As the situation worsened, executives from both companies clamped down on... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to View Details

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2021
News

Learning Curve

Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

that the choice women make to leave and re-enter the workforce is just one of many gender-related issues that has long needed understanding. Though it's not unique to executives, it is a particularly compelling subject for MBA women who have made heavy View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2012
News

Health Care’s New Frontier

Massachusetts. As CEO and president, the way Bush talks about that decision reveals a lot about the close-knit culture of a company that last year made the Boston Globe’s “Top Places to Work” in Massachusetts list. “With our commitment to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog

to live a good life? What is important to me, and how will I prioritize my time and energy towards what matters most? Owning Your Actions How do I approach decisions and tradeoffs across different areas of my life? How do I use my time on... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family and friends had initially been surprised by her View Details

November 2024
Teaching Note

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin, had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the... View Details

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Purchase

28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-070.pdf Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior Authors:Daniel Houser, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan Abstract Substantial research with adult... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

Farming for Fuel

with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Alumni Books

times give solid companies and strong managers the chance to seize market share. Fox explains how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert, get new market share, hire good and recently fired talent, increase investments in... View Details

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

"Businesses are becoming so complex that integrating predictive analytics in decision making is not very far away I think 'predictive analytics' is the 'Moneyball' for businesses." Kapil Kumar Sopory said that, "Prevention... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

and more companies have adopted a service management view of the world, which means being locally responsive to customers. As a result, firms have to decentralize and encourage their frontline employees to make decisions on their own. To... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

28 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life. Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

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