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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
the legitimacy of taking account of “non-financial” considerations when investing in companies. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51511 forthcoming Management Science Maintaining Beliefs in the Face of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
matters are too long. The response of investors who say they care about sustainability-and their numbers are large and growing-is that companies do a poor job in providing them with the information they need to take sustainability into View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
sustainability" companies-exhibit fundamentally different characteristics from a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these policies- termed "low sustainability" companies. In particular, we find that the boards of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
(61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
who also found the study to be a useful source of related research. At the same time, Silberman and EPA colleague David Hindin, senior policy director for innovation and next generation compliance, urged the researchers to look more...
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Annual Report FY20 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Jen Eliason, Associate Director of Diversity & Inclusion, on content curationDistributed to all students in the EC course Leading Difference taught by Professors Frances Frei and Francesca GinoBefore graduation next week, I wanted to send...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Cash By Christopher Kawaja (MBA 2004) and Shannon Matthiesen Independently published Most of us know how to balance the immediate needs of a checking account or to invest long term for our retirement plans. But financial advice falls...
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- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53161 forthcoming European Accounting Review The Role of Overbilling in Hospitals' Earnings Management Decisions By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—This paper examines the role of overbilling in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Harvard Business School Case 517-014 Godrej Agrovet Ltd (GAVL) Nadir Godrej, chairman, and B. Yadav, managing director of Godrej Agrovet Ltd (GAVL), grapple with the challenge of growing their cattle feed business—should they integrate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity activity and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
(in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation, then media at BBDO. When we moved to New York City, I was offered a position as an account executive at BBDO, but I heard that the previous woman in...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
physical headquarters—like literal floors of buildings. So I worked extensively with a team out in Denver, led by a gentleman named Mike Brevoort, who’s the engineering director out there. Mike in 2019 made 23 trips to San Francisco. San...
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
stomach pains to coughs to kidney disease, “Sagwa” was in reality Healy and Bigelow's own formulation. They not only told fictional accounts of its origins but likely invented its name to make their product sound more “Indian.” The...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
vice president of the school's 1,200-member marketing club, she also served as its director of special projects in charge of six committees. At the same time, she and another student partner operated a campus specialty-apparel business,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
business. HR people support leaders, they support managers, they support individuals, they support contractors, they support the CEO, they support the CFO. I mean, they’re really accountable for a lot of different groups. And so the CHRO...
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- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
implementations." In this e-mail interview Miller discusses lessons learned with colleagues Vincent Dessain (HBS MBA '87) and Daniela Beyersdorfer of the Paris-based HBS Europe Research Center. Dessain, executive director of the...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
intellectual content of the field. That same year, under the leadership of Paula Barker Duffy (MBA '77), then administrative director of External Relations, the School's Division of Research conducted a survey that provided a new...
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