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Mark L. Egan
Mark Egan is the Mark Kingdon Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Finance Unit, teaching Corporate Financial Operations to MBA students. Professor Egan’s research concentrates on the intersection of corporate finance and industrial organization. His current research agenda explores how consumers access financial markets through banks and brokerage firms. His work has been cited...
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Mark N. Roberge
Mark Roberge is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He teaches Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing in the second-year MBA program in the Fall term and The Entrepreneurial Manager and Startup Bootcamp in the first-year MBA program in the Spring and Winter terms. Prior to HBS, Mark served as SVP of Global Sales and Services at HubSpot (NYSE:...
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
really struck me about this, and that I really wanted to ask students about, is that Mark Zuckerberg is a very public figure. He's in every newspaper, every day. TV shows, media. He wants to be that public figure. All of a sudden he gets... View Details
- 9 Aug 2010
- Conference Presentation
Traveling for Effective Global Collaboration: Evidence from the Field
By: Mark Mortensen and Tsedal Neeley
- April 2014
- Case
Ford Motor Company: Blueprint for Mobility
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Noah Fisher
Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company's COO, had to ensure the company's current business model of building cars and trucks remained strong, while concurrently navigating the company into the rapidly expanding industry of personal mobility. Personal mobility required new... View Details
- 2005
- Report
Measuring Innovation: Evaluation in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship
By: Mark R. Kramer
Social Entrepreneurship has brought a new vision to the field of philanthropy and, with it, a different perspective on evaluation. In fact, many familiar approaches to evaluation in philanthropy miss the key criteria that funders consider essential to success within the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
the folly of not adhering strictly to the company's core beliefs.2 Similarly, we have observed failed consulting relationships in our field research in which the consultants simply blamed the failure on the client, concluding that the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- August 2024
- Course Overview Note
Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation Fall Term 2024 - Course Outline and Syllabus
By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks
- Article
Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research
By: Robert Bloomfield, Mark W. Nelson and Eugene F. Soltes
In the published proceedings of the first Journal of Accounting Research Conference, Vatter (1966) lamented that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and difficult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the 50th JAR Conference,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
afterwards, their employment prospects were pretty dismal,” says Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. Egan details the misconduct findings in a new working paper, “When Harry Fired Sally: The Double... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a co-author of the study. “The average settlement is in excess of $100,000 and the median is $40,000. These are costly offenses.” Included in the study was any... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the age of 14... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
Harvard Business School, where he teaches the (MBA) Foundations business history course, Creating Modern Capitalism. He also serves as co-editor of the Business History Review. Al Chandler is appropriately regarded as the founder of the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Working Paper
Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations
By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
Through an inductive, multi-method field study at a major design firm, we investigated the helping process in project work and how that process affects the success of a helping episode, as perceived by help-givers and/or -receivers. We used daily diary entries and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mark fifty years after the event, the statistics that marked extreme achievement on Everest were blown away as new records for the oldest, most often, and fastest climbs were logged in over a one-week... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- March 2013
- Article
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This article draws on historical material to examine the co-evolution of economic science and business education over the course of the twentieth century, showing that fields evolve not only through internal struggles but also through struggles taking place in adjacent... View Details
Keywords: Professions; Disciplines; Neo-Liberalism; Education; Economics; Finance; Society; United States
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
this issue. Their studies focus mainly on the organizational and organizational field levels of analysis. In this paper, I aim to complement their work by examining under what conditions individuals are more likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2007
- Report
From Insight to Action: New Directions in Foundation Evaluation
By: Mark R. Kramer, Rebecca W. Graves, Jason Hirschhorn and Leigh Fiske
The field of philanthropy is undergoing a fundamental transition and is moving toward more performance-centered and forward-looking evaluation approaches that provide foundations and grantees with timely information and actionable insights. Based on nearly 100... View Details
- April 2018
- Article
We Ask Men to Win & Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding
By: Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark Conley and E. Tory Higgins
Male entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates with a gender bias in the... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
the world are trying to respond to the tremendous pressure to reduce costs-but evidence suggests that many of their attempts are counterproductive, raising costs and sometimes decreasing the quality of care. Using evidence from field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent
percent of future profits to Beckham. “I’ve asked [Beckham], ‘If we are going to see you on the field at Inter Miami, are you going to wear a Brooks Brothers suit or an Ermenegildo Zegna suit?’ Brooks Brothers is our brand, so I hope... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Robert S. Kaplan, Katelyn Brinegar, Nicole Bassoff, H. Benjamin Harvey, James A. Brink, and Anand Prabhakar Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50229 Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel