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IFC: London; Entrepreneurship in the UK and Europe
This immersion course is designed to provide “a view from the bridge” between the HBS campus and Europe for those who are interested in understanding the region’s extraordinary recent explosion of entrepreneurial activity and capital deployment, who want to meet...
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- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March left the startup world reeling. The biggest lender to fail since the 2008 financial crisis, SVB had become the preferred funder of the startup, tech, and venture capital worlds. Its quick and sudden fall, as higher...
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In my research historical inquiry plays an important part in understanding the continuities from the pre-1949 past and the complex convergence of business institutions in the process of China’s current economic, political, and social modernization. Historians are able...
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
Contending with that value maximization approach is "stakeholder theory" which says that managers should make decisions so as to take into account all of the interests of all stakeholders in a firm. (Stakeholders, he notes,...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
when they pay their workers fairly—and struggle when they don’t, the research suggests. Resentment leads to employee backlash Rouen’s research findings add a layer of understanding to previous studies on the effects of pay disparity on...
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by Dina Gerdeman
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
How corporations govern themselves has become a matter of broad public interest in recent decades. Amid this many commentators and experts still disagree on such basic matters as the purpose of the corporation, the role of corporate boards of directors, the...
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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
understand the board selection process, best practices, and critical skillsets to help them succeed. After the first program ran in 2016, participants decided the class was too strong to allow their connections to dissolve once the...
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Meaningful Work as a Process of Imagination, Narrative, Self-Efficacy and Enactment
I am particularly concerned with the elicitation of images as they represent, in their association and amplification, the fullness of cognition in its affective, rational and behavioral dimensions. Careers may be conceptualized as a reciprocal interaction of...
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- October 14, 2019
- Article
A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance
By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan
How corporations govern themselves has become a matter of broad public interest in recent decades. Amid this many commentators and experts still disagree on such basic matters as the purpose of the corporation, the role of corporate boards of directors, the rights of...
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Corporate Governance;
Mission and Purpose;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Performance;
Measurement and Metrics
Paine, Lynn S., and Suraj Srinivasan. "A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 14, 2019).
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
level of debt as a percent of nominal GDP; the interest rate; the inflation rate; the growth rate; and changes in the exchange rate if some debt is owed in a foreign currency. The note discusses how these factors interact to affect...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Jurgen's research focuses on the challenges and opportunites to the energy sector created by technological change and externalities, in particular those associated with greenhouse gas emissons. Specific areas of interest include the development of potential pathways to...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Belgium’s reckoning with a brutal history in Congo
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
know that anyone can access these ideas.” Dina Gerdeman: Finance intimidates people largely because the system is so complex, but you say there’s an easier way to understand it. Can you explain how? Mihir Desai: Finance is often talked...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- August 2023
- Teaching Note
Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China’s Richest Town
By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 313-103. The case is designed to give the students an understanding of the local Chinese entrepreneurial state and how foreign and Chinese firms have worked with it to create China’s richest small city. The major themes are—local state...
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- 05 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program
business in other languages and cultures. While both law and business were of interest to me in college, the importance of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach became clear in my first job after graduation during a meeting in Mexico...
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- March 2002 (Revised March 2002)
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Note on Regulatory Choices
For many firms, government interaction is expansive, influencing the conduct of firms and industry structure. The visible hand of government, in the form of a regulatory scheme, plays a role in firm affairs along with the invisible hand of market forces. Deregulation...
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Dyck, Alexander, and Indra Reinbergs. "Note on Regulatory Choices." Harvard Business School Case 702-054, March 2002. (Revised March 2002.)
What Does "Stakeholder Capitalism" Mean to You?
Business leaders are being urged to adopt a multistakeholder approach to governance in place of the shareholder-centered approach that has guided their work for several decades. But through hundreds of interviews with directors, executives, investors, governance... View Details
- 2010
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Creativity
By: Beth A. Hennessey and Teresa M. Amabile
The psychological study of creativity is essential to human progress. If strides are to be made in the sciences, humanities, and arts, we must arrive at a far more detailed understanding of the creative process, its antecedents, and its inhibitors. This review,...
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Hennessey, Beth A., and Teresa M. Amabile. "Creativity." Annual Review of Psychology 61 (2010): 569–598.