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- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
there any lessons learned from that period that might apply if a new wave of bankruptcies comes? Gilson: One example that I like to cite in my classes, and the subject of one of my HBS case studies, is LyondellBasell Industries,...
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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
about the subject in a paper, "Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis" [PDF]. In the Clarksville survey, there were four characteristics that define people who were most interested in the product: They have no...
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
white women to have recently experienced harassment, even when controlling for sector, industry, size of company, age, and marital/partner status. “I was repeatedly the subject of sexual overtures when I first graduated from HBS. From the...
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- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
track5 How Does a Board Introduce to the Organization a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior? The question of conditions under which a board might hire a CEO fired elsewhere for inappropriate behavior, the subject of this...
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
Professors, and similar positions. All of these appointments are made for educational purposes, and thus are subject to this policy. Emeriti Professors without current appointments or assignments are excluded from this policy.back to text...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
metrics to help determine how agile the company is, how agile it should be, whether it is moving in the right direction at the right speed, and which constraints are impeding progress. Surveys of internal and external stakeholders to obtain their View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
learning to predict which candidates will do best in a particular position. The question is, how much should companies weight this information versus the more subjective impression gleaned from job interviews? “Essentially firms [are]...
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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
architect of the course, emphasized the idea that capitalists could be defined as people who "put bets on the future"—by, for instance, making investments, opening sales campaigns, and founding new firms. The subject of forecasting, I...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
the brainstorming session has concluded does IDEO then subject the various ideas to critical voices. Once some really solid ideas have emerged, only then should you begin "toggling," switching back and forth between creators and...
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Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and...
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
measures would work. But the only fixed time frame we know for sure is death. Everything else is subject to moving targets. If you wish to live with a continually renewing sense of success that really seems worthwhile and lasting on all...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
war, yet they are not the solely affected. Women, children, communities, the environment all bear the toils of warfare. The Islamic State’s war in Syria was no different. Women’s freedom vanished – they were subjected to the strictest of...
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- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
his pepper mill of noir. When MacDonald died in 1986 from complications following heart surgery, a distinctive American voice was silenced, and the torrent of words, opinions, columns, stories, and books, an output embracing all manner of View Details
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Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
had been a subject of an HBS case study in the recent past) and considered them to be exemplary organizations (in terms of productivity and profitability) prior to the pandemic. Almost all the companies contacted participated in the...
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- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
University, where I was determined to find the least useful subject to major in (from an employment perspective at least) – Philosophy. What difference do you hope to make in the world? I want to do my part to give a voice to the...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions...
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Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Philipp Chvanov. "Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-066, January 2024.
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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
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HBSGrid Project Directory Space Notifications - Research Computing Services
full, you will receive an email from research@hbs.edu with the following subject line: IMPORTANT: Project directory on the Research Grid is 99/100% full Please first see if you are able to archive any data using the instructions here. If...
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