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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
Student Financial Aid Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was...
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- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
in the carbon mitigation industry. “This is a great time to be a clean energy innovator.” – Janice Tran, CEO and co-founder of Kanin Energy On July 12, 2022, Kanin Energy CEO Janice Tran announced a major collaboration in the clean energy...
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- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
announcements about additional cities soon. “It’s taken a lot of political courage for Ithaca to say: ‘We want to be the first city in the U.S. and the world to decarbonize all our buildings.’” Keith added: “We don’t know yet how many...
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- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
NBC announced it would be broadcasting the Summer Olympic Games in London in 2012, observers expected the network to take a loss on the event, as it had for Olympic broadcasts for a decade. For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, NBC...
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- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
entrepreneurial ventures. For example, he figured out quickly that he could make more money selling ice cream to construction workers if he offered whole containers, not just individual bars. He started earning money at a young age. BW:...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to brashly demand kickbacks on the commissions iTrust earns from the vendors whose products we sell,” says Varma. iTrust dealt with this problem head on by posting its kickbacks policy on its Web site. It...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Tongish, posted his profile to a now-defunct website that promised online dating with a twist: Women recommended their male friends to other women. Kushner, who had also recommended a friend of hers on the site, spotted Deckinger’s...
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April White
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
first-place finish earned $2,000. Video Embed A 2006 in-flight conversation between Jones and Rogers that led to the formation of Local Motors. But after graduation, the reality of starting a car company from scratch—the actual process,...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on October 4, 2010, when the SEC...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
CEO at J.C. Penney. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/ron-johnson-retail-at-target-apple-and-j-c-penney/an/513103-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-085 J.C. Penney's 'Fair and Square' Strategy (B): Out with the New, In with the Old In his August 2012...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
chairman emeritus of the Bajaj Group, announced that the firm would be donating Rs 200 crore (~$27 million) to address the “on-the-ground challenges” resulting from the surge in coronavirus cases in India. As noted in the Business...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
returning to homeport in Everett, Washington, after a sixmonth deployment, and our stores were almost down to zero. Then, on New Year’s Day 2003, the ship’s admiral announced that the President had asked us to go back to the Persian Gulf....
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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
retiring as a commander in 2013. Vescovo had already earned a place in the annals of exploration. When he reached the peak of Everest in 2010, he became one of just a few hundred people to have climbed all Seven Summits, the tallest...
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
sheet of blue tarp for shade, waiting for fares. Often, their only advertisement was a small hand-drawn sign tied to a post with a bit of wire. “Seventy-five percent of their time ... they were actually idle,” Makarim told a crowd...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/319027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-511 BuzzFeed—What Future for Native Advertising and Branded Content? Jonah Peretti, CEO of digital publishing company BuzzFeed, needs to decide how to respond to Facebook’s View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
that captures all users and earns more than under compatibility. Our model allows a detailed analysis of social efficiency, and we show that entry by developers is socially excessive (insufficient) if competing platforms are compatible...
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Martha Lagace
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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
Academically, HBS adapted quickly. The School’s leadership prioritized protecting the health, safety, and well-being of the HBS community. Once Harvard announced it would move classes online for the final weeks of the semester, more than...
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