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- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
Describes how Royal DSM NV, an $8 billion dollar global corporation, leveraged information technology to enable a major corporate portfolio transformation between 2000 and 2006. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
wealth management platform that integrates products and advice focusing on impact, embedding ESG in research, and building a green bonds business. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318103-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-025 PFA Pension:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
venture money? A: The vast majority of venture capital is allocated to technology-driven businesses: software, hardware, Internet-related spaces. There is also significant investment in the life sciences and biotech. There is some portion...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
Author:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible; i.e., fair matchings do not always exist. However, for many, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
game and that a passive approach is more profitable in today’s market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on top in the long run. This book...
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- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
the effective allocation of work. Cases & Course MaterialsSotheby's & Christie's Inc. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and C.J. WiseHarvard Business School Case 710-412 The fine art auction business has remained a duopoly over its 250...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
methods. Myth Number 1: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs reduce returns on capital and long-run shareholder value. Reality: Companies committed to ESG are finding competitive advantages in product, labor, and capital markets, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
MaterialsKKR: Leveraging Sustainability Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, and Tiffany A. ClayHarvard Business School Case 112-032 The case describes KKR's Green Portfolio Program, one of the firm's environmental initiatives, which has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
of mine, Carl Kester. He takes some offense when I beat up on it. Sorry, Carl!” Sahlman’s perspective was influenced by his father, a successful manager who had dealt with similar kinds of resource allocation issues. Sahlman knew that in...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions within their View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
expenses include a portion of faculty salaries and benefits expense, as well as direct costs for faculty support staff and travel, and for the School’s network of global offices. Additionally, HBS allocates a portion of the costs...
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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company had a plan to share carbon...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
These platforms provide notable benefits including reducing transaction costs, improving allocation of resources, and creating information and pricing efficiencies. Yet they also raise questions of regulation, including how regulation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Print View - Course Catalog
define the entertainment, media, and sports industries, and how those properties together introduce a unique set of challenges and opportunities for managers. Subsequent modules explore: How can entertainment businesses best allocate...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
backgrounds, we had all done similar arts degrees at elite institutions, and we had no divine right to be there. We learned everything we knew about that job on the job. And I was in finance for five years. I wanted to understand how markets View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
business. And most companies are building out what they would call an enterprise PMO to be able to help coordinate and execute that-Kerr: Can you define PMO for us?Petitti: Portfolio and project management office. PMOs traditionally sat...
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