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Kevin S. Rollag
do they balance respect for the nation's laws while maintaining a commitment to human rights? How do you run a business in a location where you might be required to impose on those rights? Before, I thought of these issues as...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
have been increasingly demanding a bachelor’s degree for jobs that didn’t traditionally require one. Since only a third of the US population has a bachelor’s degree, the pool of candidates for those positions is limited. Compounding the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of shareholder power. The result is the imposition of ineffective, costly, or counter-productive...
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- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
to the demise of entire industries. Note that Pisano and Shih are not calling for the return to the US of jobs in mature industries or those in which product innovation can be separated from manufacturing. Nor are they claiming that this...
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- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
potential profit drivers rather than the first troops to cut in a downturn. Ton's working paper, "The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality", examines how mundane activities such as stocking shelves, setting up displays, labeling, and View Details
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
collaborate with like-minded investors to ensure stable returns sold their holdings 3.4 years after the first funding round, on average. "FOR A LOT OF ENTREPRENEURS, IT'S JUST ABOUT ... HOW MUCH FUNDING THEY'RE GETTING TO SURVIVE TO THE...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Photos by Kunle Ogunfuyi Even a college degree couldn’t help Temi Abiola, who grew up in Nigeria, land a job. Though he speaks fluent English, he lacked the problem-solving and customer relations skills required for his dream job in the...
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Jill Radsken
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
they are in, and they want to be more flexible.” The pandemic—and the return to office-based work at many companies, including Emirates—was the final push Gillani needed. In early 2022, he left the airline to dedicate his time to a...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
occurrence of default. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44340 Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross Section of Expected Returns Worldwide By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
increase their total equity allocation as the horizon increases, the mean value tilt of the optimal allocation is shown to be positive and stable across time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lviceira/JV_GV_20100223.pdf Bond Risk, Bond View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
than the average U.S. board. Stock returns around M&A announcements and board attendance are also higher in founder-director firms compared to non-founder firms. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
the return required by their capital providers. This led to an extraordinary institutional change that was not accompanied by a corresponding mandate to the Fed and other regulatory agencies to expand their...
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by Staff
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin We’ve also seen an easing of the requirements around the state-level licensure of physicians. In...
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- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunities and substantial returns on investment of the kind suggested by some are years, perhaps even decades, away. It will require not only caution but also a great deal of patience as barriers to...
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by James Heskett
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
work. The case forces the student to choose among the four orders, given limited capacity available, other business likely to come along, and the requirements of each order. The case is an updated version of Fabtek (A). Purchase the case:
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
usually required in a venture capital presentation. “A lot of companies that probably shouldn't get funding will get it” As enticing as crowdfunding is as a concept, it may ultimately have little power to shake up the investing world,...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
affords them greater control over service quality and customer experience, in return for which they accept the added costs of being employers. Hornet's nest The decision by some marketplaces-for-services to treat their workers as...
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- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
whether a business is directly in an ESG field, but that ESG elements should be integrated into the core-value system and management strategy,” notes Murakami. “To do that, we help our portfolio companies identify their ESG materialities, targets, and KPIs. Before...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
the model before tackling the more competitive cities that the traveler-oriented services are blanketing. Testing a few big markets periodically will help confirm whether the return is greater by sticking to small and medium in the near...
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- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Traditional financial advisors cater to baby boomers with substantial savings, requiring minimum amounts for investment upwards of $100,000 to access their services. By contrast, industry-leading Wealthfront and similar firms such as...
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