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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Pay of Finance Professors

By: Claire Célérier, Boris Vallée and Alexey Vasilenko
This paper documents the existence of a significant wage finance premium in academia, and investigates its underlying mechanism. By exploiting an extensive dataset covering wages, publications and socio-demographics for 60,000 public-university faculty from all fields,... View Details
Keywords: Finance Wage Premium; Finance Academia; Wages; Higher Education
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Evolving Academic Field of Climate Finance

By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
The urgency and the magnitude of climate change will affect every aspect of our economies, societies, and planet. The academic finance research has begun to study the financial implications of global warming, although this body of literature is small. The field has... View Details
Keywords: Climate Finance; Finance Academia; Greenhouse Gas; Sustainable Finance; Financial Decisions; Educational Finance; Finance; Climate Change; Transition
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  • October 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Academia Barilla

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Barilla, the world's largest pasta company, has introduced a new high-quality, high-priced product line that features a range of authentic Italian food products sourced from artisan producers. Management believes the line will appeal to consumers seeking healthier... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Brands and Branding; Decision Choices and Conditions; Family Ownership; Nutrition; Product Development; Investment; Food and Beverage Industry; Italy
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  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

In Pursuit of Academia

the work and knowing that a consulting salary would help mitigate the debt she and her husband, Alberto Fernandes (MBA 2012), had acquired to finance their degrees, she turned down the company’s offer of postgraduation employment.... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2017
  • News

The Book Making Us Re-think the World of Finance

  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

Tufano recently talked about the course and his determination to make consumer finance a broadly accepted academic pursuit. Roger Thompson: Why did you want to teach a course in consumer finance? Peter Tufano: The household sector in... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

even if consumer finance was still unpopular. While it might have taken a crisis to convince some, we believed for a decade that this was an important sector that raised serious issues and deserved substantially greater attention in View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and mobilized a group of HBS faculty... View Details
Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia
  • 1 Jul 2013
  • Panel Discussion

Master Class Session on Business and Investing in Africa

By: Euvin Naidoo, Pravin Gordhan, Nkosana Moyo, Moe Shaik, Polo Radebe and Cassim Coovadia
Annual Master Class Evening Session on: 'Business and Investment in Africa' - from Strategy to Execution Keynote address by Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan Led by South African Euvin Naidoo, who serves in his personal capacity as visiting faculty member at Wits... View Details
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  • July – August 2009
  • Article

Restoring American Competitiveness

By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value; Production; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competency and Skills; Service Industry; United States
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Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

difference in the world. Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability The Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project supports research collaborations across Harvard University to understand, predict,... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs

Keywords: by Emilie Rose Feldman, Stuart C. Gilson & Belén Villalonga
  • Web

Private Capital Project

common was 6% with Stanford Graduate School of Business. Notably, HBS was also the first major business school to offer classes in Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital and Private Equity. Today, both are widely emulated, primarily... View Details
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

experience across a range of sectors from finance to government and furthering my education across a variety of fields from statistics to economics. These tools, and the support of the Technology Innovation Fellows Program, will empower... View Details
  • Web

Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

decarbonize operations and supply chains, create inclusive organizations, expand economic mobility, and explore new governance models—all while spurring economic growth. Seeking reliable guidance, many look to academia for impartial,... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

opportunities and jobs, their life satisfaction has steadily declined, the paper notes. That might be due at least in part to women working during the day, then having to return home to the “second shift” of household duties. Whillans—who was an actress prior to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Organizational Inequality at ‘Well Intentioned’ Companies: The Case of ShopCo’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies and Practices.” Summer R. Jackson : Recipient of Funding Support and Participant in the NYU Stern Diverse Pathways in View Details
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

It's academic. (Not!)

background, and they have a good idea of what they want to do with that experience when they get here." The flexibility and freedom of academia has an entrepreneurial appeal that is extremely rewarding for those who want to set their own... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

business leaders as they work to revitalize the region's faltering economy. "Corporate Governance: A Functional Approach," a two-day, HBSsponsored research conference held in Shanghai last July, brought together leading figures in business, government, and View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 18 Jan 2017
  • News

HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa

Conference, drawing some 1,500 leaders from business, government, and academia as well as students to campus. Keynote speeches, panels, workshops, and networking events prompt discussions about furthering business opportunities and... View Details