Filter Results
:
(2,816)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,816)
- People (2)
- News (581)
- Research (1,895)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (26)
- Faculty Publications (1,195)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,816)
- People (2)
- News (581)
- Research (1,895)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (26)
- Faculty Publications (1,195)
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
C-suite and the human resource function have narrowed the basis for decision making. And we’ll talk about possible solutions, including accounting rules that take stock of how investments in human capital actually affect the bottom line....
View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
billionaire Russian investor Roustam Tariko, has proposed an out of court exchange offer for CEDC's publicly traded bonds and investment in CEDC's stock that would give him full ownership of the company. If the exchange offer fails, the...
View Details
Keywords:
Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
16% greater measurement error variance and imply an average performance penalty of 106 to 277 basis points in annual returns. Finally, reduced-form estimates suggest that ineffective and index-based RPE benchmarks are associated with poorer corporate governance and...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
double-digit drop in stock price overnight. Questions were raised on the company's strategies pursued to meet such targets and on the validity of its three-year planning process. Purchase this case:...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days each month at the company. And they all have significant View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
announcements on trading behavior in a simulated and real stock market setting. I find evidence that the involvement of stars impacts movies' expected theatrical revenues, and I provide insight into the magnitude of that effect. For...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
faculty and students cite the "bias for action" that results—what Fouraker professor of business administration Thomas Piper calls "courage to act under uncertainty." That courage is essential for corporate leadership. "The businessman's View Details
Keywords:
by David A. Garvin
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent View Details
Keywords:
Deborah Blagg
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
here. Do attractive places to live with reasonable housing stock and good mass transit attract talent and that creates the basis for a growing dynamic economy? Or does growth really hinge on having that talent and that talent becomes a...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
often even high school graduates. To train them to work in their stores in things like stock shelving, putting goods on the shelves Or a Microsoft doing that with cognitive diversity individuals, for example, autistics Or more commonly,...
View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
by expanding into new geographies, product categories, and distribution channels. They have also recently developed several strategic partnerships with Silicon Valley firms to expand into an array of digital products. However, after going public, View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
provides a wide array of in-aisle treats and accessories to drive impulse purchases. At the same time, they've maintained a strategy of exclusivity with pet food so that they are not stocking all of the same items that Walmart and the...
View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
consistent with better audit quality from knowledge spillovers due to the joint offering of audit and consulting services. Events related to the repeal of these NAS disclosures in 1982 are associated with a small positive stock price...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
backroom stock for sale items missing from shelves, or even to scale and price produce items or grind A&P's bean coffees. Cleanliness and courtesy standards, freshness and quality standards, shelf-stocking and checkout standards, and...
View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
less-populated county suggesting a role for social factors. Additionally, stock markets respond favorably to divestitures of in-state divisions. Investigative Negotiation Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman Periodical:Harvard...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- Web
Alumni Authored Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
How to Supercharge Business Performance Aguilar, Francis (Frank). Scanning the Business Environment Aguilar, Francis (Frank). [Many Other Works Owned by Baker] Andrew, John. Boeing Metamorphosis: Launching the 737 and 747, 1965-1969Davis, Mort. From Hard Knocks to Hard...
View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
point that is likely to forever change us, as did the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Brooks suggests using this period as an opportunity to take stock of your own life. Does...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
directors manage reputation through disclosure choices in biographies in proxy statements filed with the SEC. Directors are more likely to withhold information about directorships at firms that experienced adverse events. Withholding such information is associated with...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute,...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Annual Report FY20 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
1950s-2000sPersonal archives of Muriel Siebert, the first women to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and serve as president of a member company. View: Contemporary Corporate Archives HBS Art Collection & Program Supported by the...
View Details