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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Harvard Business Review 89 Abstract Private moments of doubt and fear come even to managers who have spent years on the job. Any number of events can trigger them: an initiative is going poorly; you get a lukewarm performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
intermediary broker, resulting in a schedule of haircuts and financing rates. The model produces comparative statics and time-series dynamics that are consistent with the empirical features of repo market data, including the credit crisis...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
in the United States. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709037 Consumer Payment Systems—United States Harvard Business School Case 909-006 In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
is going to improve their bottom line is a start.” #2: Change the Image The Perkins Fund does not invest exclusively in women founders, but in the 10 years since Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) founded the firm, about 50 percent of the companies she has funded have had...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
have had women founders. Perkins credits this balanced portfolio to her extended network, which includes more women entrepreneurs than that of the typical male venture capitalist. In her experience, the same pattern-matching and emphasis...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been the hallmark of View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
these issues. Firms devote more external capital to finance their share repurchases than to avoid regular dividend cuts. Debt is the main source of capital used to externally finance payouts, particularly when credit market conditions are...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
crowd that the agreement was “proof of the strength of what we could do if we decide to find common purpose.” The head of a regional lumber coalition touted the achievement, crediting his fellow speakers. A representative from the...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
was completed last year. Because international students do not generally qualify for federal, institutional, or private loans, fellowships are a key resource. Many individual and class gifts to HBS have been earmarked for this purpose....
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
reviewing the company's marketing strategy for charge and credit cards in the United States. A variety of growth options exists for students to consider, including further penetration of existing markets and the opening of new markets....
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
traditional systems, where you depended heavily upon operating budgets that came from the state or you depended heavily on grants as a private institution. You know, we designed the model to be self-sustaining on tuition only. Kerr: I...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
(MBA 2002), private investor, senior executive “First, my wife and I felt our top priority was to decide where we wanted to live and then look for a job, as opposed to letting my work drag us around the country. Second, I have elected to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
nonprofit focus on broadband access for families with kids. Also working with community colleges, trying to get them to help reskill underserved populations. And then in the private sector, working at an education technology company and...
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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
be investing alongside a Brazilian private equity firm, GP Investments, and must decide how to structure the investment. Especially, he must decide how to align his interests with those of GP. GP has recruited EI due to its prior...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
bridge and an express railway link to the central business district, represent a $20.1-billion investment. Two-thirds of the funds are coming from government, Lam noted, while the remainder is being sourced from the private sector. Philip...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
the concept that the person who “owned” the final purchaser actually could control the supply process all the way up the line, by controlling the shelf space. From that evolved the concept of private labeling, and Peter formed a company,...
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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
potential for improvement as a reason to avoid the action. In an experiment, making more salient how a donation could be improved significantly decreases giving. Self-serving motives dramatically magnify the effect, suggesting why information may be particularly...
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Carmen Nobel