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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
September 16 New York Times article. Merrill Lynch's chairman David H. Komansky (107th AMP) and president and COO E. Stanley O'Neal (MBA '78), both of whom were displaced from offices in the World Financial... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
construction and industrial activities and had adversely affected the company's revenues and operating result. The stock of the company quickly fell from the mid-$30 range in late 2007 to $3 in March 2009. In addition, two of the company's former View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
Lacassie Child: Elisa (almost 3 years), Amalia (due May 8th) Student Status: EC Where are you from? Chile Professional pathway pre-HBS: Financial Services in Chile Post HBS Plan: BCG, Boston Office Little... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
and financial distress—a mentally toxic combination for many. In fact, almost half of adults in the United States, 45 percent, say that worry and stress related to the coronavirus and the resulting economic downturn are hurting their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An entrepreneurial firm with limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
closer to market rates. In true throwback fashion, the mutual bank opened a branch office on Main Street in Concord, New Hampshire, and carries the distinction of being the state’s first mutual in 99 years. When the model originated in... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
series, gathers in a basement studio at HBS with Desai and Oberholzer-Gee, as well as the occasional guest, to talk about current events, pop culture, and pet peeves. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance; Moon is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
in boxer shorts is just plain fun. It’s part of who Tim Draper is, the same part that sees opportunities others might miss and finds nothing unusual or scary about taking on established norms. For the moment, however, Draper is tethered to a conference room chair in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Bill Bornstein, chief quality and medical officer of Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, is responsible for the smooth implementation of CPOE at Emory Healthcare, which is a vital part of its $50 million electronic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 316-124 Gotong Royong: Toward Sustainable Palm Oil In late 2015, Jeff Seabright, chief sustainability officer at Unilever, had to report to Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the effort... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
died and his family was running out of funds, he said that "All I had in mind was to make enough money so that my mother would never have to work again." His first job was as an office boy in an insurance firm. His... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
change, which included the 300 top executives plus another 100 natural leaders from the ranks without fancy titles. The 1,350 South Koreans I met at the Shinhan Financial Group Summit outside of Seoul in the fall of 2003 were all... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Web
Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three... View Details
- Web
Deal Making in Real Estate - Course Catalog
member of the Firm’s Executive, Investment and Disposition Committees. Prior to joining Starwood Capital in 2002, Chris worked at CB Richard Ellis in Washington, D.C., where he was Director of the financial consulting group for the... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
volunteers who pick up materials from NCCP’s office to assemble learning packets at home, then bring back the completed packets for the nonprofit to distribute to families. “We created a Volunteer from Home program that allows individuals... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace