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Placement - Doctoral
School of Management, Accounting Department Dissertation: Technology and Crowdsourced Information: Implications for Capital Markets and Regulatory Enforcement Advisors: Charles C.Y. Wang (Chair), Jonas Heese, and Joseph Pacelli 2022...
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- October 2013 (Revised February 2019)
- Teaching Note
Red Hen Baking Company
By: Richard Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Lisa Paige
The case explores the decision to expand in a small business setting. In 2007, the Red Hen Baking Company (RHB) was deciding whether to move from its cramped and inefficient Duxbury, Vermont facility to a new facility in nearby Middlesex, Vermont. It had been in...
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- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
impair goodwill when their reputation concerns are low, suggesting that those executives are subject to their own opportunistic motives. We also find that the greater propensity of former auditors and investment bankers to report goodwill...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Management, a technology-sector hedge fund. Previously, he worked at Vector Capital Management LP in San Francisco and at Goldman Sachs International in London. Originally from Norway, Abrahamsen earned an undergraduate degree from the...
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- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Business or Company Management (17) COVID-19 (127) Capital Markets (13) Capital Structure (1) Capital (61) Cash Flow (1) Cash (2) Central Banking (2) Change Management (66)...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
reputational capital often entails sacrificing short-term gains in return for long-term profit. For example, some negotiators are habitually straightforward, guarding their integrity with great care despite...
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by Deepak Malhotra
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
social cues from reputation stakeholders and from prominent third-party bureaucratic actors can serve as symbolic signals that can affect the decision making of regulatory agencies. Our findings suggest that while social cues from View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Hedge Funds | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Guides Hedge Funds Hedge Funds Hedge funds, originally created with the aim of hedging risk in a portfolio of long and short positions, invest in assets from an investment pool typically funded by a limited number of reputable sources....
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
implement the layoffs quickly—in less than a year—to minimize workplace disruptions and gain credibility with the capital market. For some companies, however, strategic and business factors could warrant a more gradual approach to...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
should look at the impact of brand sponsorship on influencers’ reputations because, really, their social capital is the foundation of influencer marketing,” Zhang says. “If consumers aren’t perceiving social...
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- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
reflecting an outstanding career.” “Peter Crisp has played a leadership role in venture capital. His name and reputation will guide our work to further entrepreneurship and innovation at HBS and at Harvard,” said Eisenmann. “I am honored...
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Susan Young
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
says Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS. “And even in the US, when you look at sources of early-stage capital for new entrepreneurs, it tends to be friends and family.” But making sure families will work well together can be...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel...
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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
payments to its pension fund and drawn down all the fund’s cash until there was nothing left but a $50 billion unfunded liability. Capital markets had deemed the island an unacceptable risk. “They had lost access to traditional capital,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
start up Blue Ridge Capital in New York City, where she found her calling: hedge funds. The summer after entering HBS, she worked for Lone Pine. While a student, Hughes has kept a hand in Lone Pine's affairs, has read a novel a week, and...
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Charlie Hogg
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
Sustainable Production (led by professors Willy Shih and Michael Toffel) Ghana: Doing Business Across Africa (led by Senior Lecturer Hakeem Belo-Osagie) Israel: Startups and Venture Capital (led by professors Paul Gompers and Richard...
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April White
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
pots and pans and numerous other items, became chairman of Alcoa. Edward Prizer, who became president of Vacuum Oil in 1918, made his reputation by organizing the firm's domestic and foreign sales operations. Clarence Mott Woolley,...
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by Laura Linard
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
hoarders, who hold back their hardest workers from moving on. “Many of the best people are ambitious, and if they feel blocked from advancing, they’ll leave to look for respect and status,” Cespedes says. “The best sales leaders are what I call talent magnets; they...
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by Dina Gerdeman