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- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
a very good record which are the LBOs, almost never go for that sort of CEO. They look for an industry figure who really knows a lot about the business and that company—often a retired CEO. Q: Is it easy to predict who's going to be the...
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- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
little about why this sale surprised the auction community? Deepak Malhotra: Auctioneers are often able to predict selling prices pretty accurately. In this particular auction, actual prices were approximately seven times initial...
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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
in sales respectively. Most companies in the industry were valued at $1 million per employee, and this company had 40. However, NASDAQ had just dropped about 20% (April, 2000), and voices predicting the end of the tech stocks' ride were...
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by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
(Study 1). Product priming also increases the speed with which product-relevant individuals come to mind (Study 2). In Study 3, consumers felt subjectively closer to networks primed by specific products, and this felt closeness predicted...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
the Congressional Budget Office predicted that federal incentives would cost the United States about $7.5 billion by 2019. China appears to have hit its ceiling: The central government reduced subsidies on individual cars by 20 percent...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Noting that nearly 40 percent of the alumni present had graduated from HBS since 1980, Piccus predicted a lively exchange of ideas between dynamic business professionals and some of the School's leading academicians. "This is an historic...
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Alejandro Reyes
- January 2021
- Supplement
Aster DM Healthcare: Budget Exercise
By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein
In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had...
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Decision Making;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Judgments;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cost vs Benefits;
Finance;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Condition;
Financial Liquidity;
Accounting;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Management;
Crisis Management;
Health Pandemics;
Health Industry;
Asia;
India;
United Arab Emirates;
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
the context in which specific CEO candidates were successful. It is all too easy to ignore both the past contextual framework of success and the present one. Are they aligned? Does success in one context predict success in a new one?...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
core business of distributing financial information, Bloomberg has added print, broadcast, and other media, with 400 reporters in 70 bureaus writing 3,000 business and nonbusiness stories daily for outlets in 25 countries. This explosive work in progress has some...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment intensity"—that is, the number of a firm's employees relative to its size. He then View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
competitors know how to deal with regulators, says Quelch, "but with all those entrepreneurs coming out with flavors and advertising, they would no longer be able to get traction in their business." Tobacco Companies Take Control Quelch View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
bloggers about whether Amazon's profits will ever live up to its promise are predictable every time its earnings announcements come around. Of course, Bezos's strategy hasn't hurt the company. Its current market value is $135 billion....
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- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
boundaries. We then examine the evidence, using a unique dataset to construct firm-level indexes of vertical integration for a large set of countries. In line with the predictions of our model, we obtain three main results. First, higher...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two accounting-based characteristics—book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
and then develop theories that will help predict behavior in the future. I don’t know that I had a clear hypothesis about this research question at the start. You hear so much said about how much people don’t like open offices, but...
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Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
Documenting the actual levels of inequality within and across countries is generally considered a critical input to the design of economic and social policy (7–10); we suggest that assessing laypeople’s understanding of those levels, and how that understanding View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
predicted he wouldn’t graduate grade school, yet he graduated college with honors because my family focused on what he was capable of and believed in him. “With ArtLifting, our mission is to empower disadvantaged individuals through the...
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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital markets, reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but leaves the overall weighted average...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
why consumers desire unusual and novel consumption experiences and voluntarily choose leisure activities, vacations, and celebrations that are predicted to be less pleasurable. For example, consumers sometimes choose to stay at freezing...
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Sean Silverthorne