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- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
promote, in word and deed, the salutary effects of entrepreneurship. In keeping with that objective, in October 1945, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, the first HBS-based professor to be named a University Professor, wrote an article for...
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- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision-making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms around the world. Building on data showing that pharmaceutical...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
PublicationsInnovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse Author:Malcolm S. Salter Publication:Harvard University Press, 2008 Publisher's Abstract Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans
schools and universities are closed this week. Shutting down to help stop community spread Across the country, at least 21 million kids, now home from school. Students are often not at high risk, but their parents, grandparents and the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
high quality to think about. What does that do to the mix of students on our campus? What makes American universities great, and what makes American businesses great, relative to any other institutions in the world historically, has been...
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Roger Thompson
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
the percentage of women entering the sector annually remained stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, according to findings by HBS professor Paul Gompers and Harvard University PhD candidate Sophie Calder-Wang. This disparity in representation...
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Satish Tadikonda Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems Finance John Dionne Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Finance Sara Fleiss Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Scaling...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
George Floyd murder, the protests that we saw at the height of the pandemic. And I think, again, it’s not that these initiatives haven’t existed in government. I think we all see in the private sector and public sector this heightened...
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- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the...
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
enjoy the discussion.Joe Fuller: “Companies that can excel at doing those things are going to keep and retain more than their fair share of the good talent. And that’s a winning proposition in a knowledge economy.” Jocelyn Hittle: Welcome to Spur of the Moment, the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Harvard Business School professor and nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Joe Fuller. It’s my particular pleasure to welcome a fellow academic, Peter Cappelli, to this podcast. Peter is a professor of management at the View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a negative bias in expert evaluations. We analyze the results of a peer review process for medical research grant proposals at a leading medical research university, in which we...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
Publications Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii Authors: Michel Anteby, Filiz Garip, Paul V. Martorana, and Scott Lozanoff Publication: PLoS ONE 7, no. 8: e42673...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
anywhere, and to any industry. That kind of infrastructure can look very different from place to place. In Boston, it took the shape of District Hall, a public venue in the city’s Seaport District that functions as a communal gathering...
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- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
Harvard Business School professors often travel into the field to conduct business research, but it's a safe bet none have had the experience of Professor Robin Ely. She and coauthor Debra Meyerson of Stanford University took helicopter...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm:...
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- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
PublicationsThe Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup Authors:Noam Wasserman Publication:The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Princeton University Press, in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows, which has...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When Intel turned a profit and went View Details