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- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
stories of the families we work with are not unlike my story,” says Owusu-Kesse. The son of Ghanaian immigrants, he was raised by his mother in a distressed Worcester, Massachusetts, neighborhood. “I experienced firsthand the sacrifices...
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Deborah Blagg
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may have lower financial returns but greater social...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
redesigned in a manner that would make Martha Stewart proud — and also gives an outsider a hint that she’s not exaggerating. During her New York days, Reade specialized in buying and selling firms that had gone bankrupt or were in View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—Is racial heterogeneity responsible for the distressed View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48304 forthcoming Review of Finance View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
stirred in the country’s public opinion. Financial markets and bookmakers seem to indicate that Remain is the more likely outcome, but the very last poll of polls by the Financial Times pointed to a chilling...
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
which is hard to explain by the traditional leverage tradeoff with financial distress that emphasizes downside risk. The results are robust to a variety of specification choices and control variables....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
deep financial distress and had no choice but seek a foreign partner. Ghosn, who had never worked in Japan but had extensive experiences in other parts of the world, motivated the middle management at Nissan...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process....
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by Joseph B. Fuller
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
Before she applied to HBS, Dana Hoffmann seemed to be on a dream career trajectory. With a master’s degree in applied mathematics, she had worked as a financial analyst at Symantec, the Silicon Valley security software giant, and was...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
effective nonprofits and away from underperforming ones. We illustrate how innovative information and financial intermediaries, using new measurement approaches tailored for the nonprofit sector, have recently arisen to help direct funds...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
costs, in a financially distressed organization. Purchase this note: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/809161-PDF-ENG Oprah Winfrey Harvard Business School Case 809-068 The case explores the...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
and Erik Stafford Periodical:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines institutional price pressure in equity markets using market prices of mutual fund transactions caused by capital flows from 1980 to...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
thought (versus conscious thought) would reduce frequency of intrusions from an analogue trauma film. Participants viewed a distressing film and were subsequently instructed to think about the film deliberately (conscious thought), to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
other. This year the defending champion diverted to rescue a competitor, damaged his own boat in the process, and had to drop out. But he never hesitated: to aid a mariner in distress is the unquestioned code of the sea. I wish that on...
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- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
address poverty at scale which led him to focus on education and education policy as key to opening up possibilities. After two years teaching social justice in an economically distressed community with Teach for America, Mbanusi joined...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
add-on that’s separate from the financial numbers–laden annual report. “To have real impact,” they write, “these separate reports need to be integrated” into a single One Report that reveals how a company is making sustainability a...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings reconciliation. Although the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
similar: “Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.” Remarkably, Keynes says much the same...
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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Harvard Business Review Managing Political Misfits By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54406 forthcoming Management Science The ABCs...
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Sean Silverthorne