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- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
size of the company's assets? The management of financial risks is not just a matter of "protecting" the firm against adverse events. A: As an accounting identity, the total value and the total risk of the assets of the firm...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
cross-disciplinary research. The School also incurred new costs in fiscal 2014 for I.T. infrastructure to support increased alumni engagement, as well as FIELD enhancements in the MBA Program. MBA tuition and fees recover only a minor View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
single-digit growth in the endowment distribution for fiscal 2020. A portion of this growth relates to the increase in the University’s distribution rate. The balance reflects growth in the size of the...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
research expenses at HBS—nearly 19 percent of the operating budget—cut across several line items in the Statement of Activity and Cash Flows. The cost of faculty research includes a portion of faculty salary and benefits expense. It also...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the size of the menu is sufficiently small, low-ability menu setters optimally offer more items in the menu than high-ability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
services and software space has been consistently strong. Students are also joining technology companies that overlap in retail, heath care, and other direct to consumer industries as they find roles in companies that align directly with their specific interests. There...
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Technology
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
feedback influence order quantities. We find that the portion of mismatch cost due to adjustment behavior exceeds the portion of mismatch cost due to level behavior in three out of four conditions....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
"massive issues around the respect of intellectual property rights" in arguing, "It's high time to call into question portions of the Chinese miracle." Perhaps Jack Zhang captured the sense of many respondents best...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain...
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Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
distribution for fiscal 2019. A portion of this growth relates to the increase in the University’s distribution rate. The balance reflects growth in the size of the endowment as a result of endowment gifts...
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Services 5% Depreciation 3% University Assessments 1% Supplies & Equipment 0% Debt Service Faculty research expenses include a portion of faculty salaries and benefits expense, as well as direct costs for faculty support staff and travel,...
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- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
globalized business world, and technologies that are constantly changing. Within that dynamic environment, a curveball can come from anywhere: a portion of their businesses may suddenly dry up, belt-tightening layoffs may loom, or...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
than trying to predict the unpredictable. Predictions often end up as a basis for strategic planning, which he dismisses as "superstitious babble" often carried out in large organizations whose very size exposes them to...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
lines. We model and show empirically that exploration R&D does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
a company remains in the index they will keep holding the stock. Second, large pension funds such as Norges Bank Investment Management, AP, and the New York State Common Retirement Fund. They also tend to hold significant portions of the...
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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
fellowships and professorships, income from the internally generated funds invested in the endowment is unrestricted. Given the economic uncertainty and market volatility, we elected to hold our fiscal 2020 operating surplus in cash, rather than transfer any View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
waste into by-product. In some cases, when the markets for the primary and by-products are "separable," it is optimal to convert only a portion of the waste into by-product and disposing of the rest. In other cases, when the...
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Martha Lagace
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
even more impressive considering that the group’s on-campus programming was paused for a significant portion of the winter to prevent an increase in COVID-19 cases associated with the Omicron variant. Turning to HBP, revenues increased to...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
The price was five times our investment: It had been eight years, a little longer hold than we would have liked, but a very good outcome nonetheless. The CEO would continue to run the company and signed up for a whole new equity package; he asked if StarVest would like...
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