Intermediary Asset Pricing - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

four to one. When another premium brand lowers its wholesale price in an attempt to stimulate sales, Heublein’s president decides to increase the price of Smirnoff and put the additional revenue into... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Responses to Currency Crises" (November 2008). Ranjay Gulati : Elected a fellow of the Strategic Management Society in 2009. Josh Lerner : Second Place Winner of the 2009 Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of... View Details

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Unilever proved flexible enough to retain them, fostered by its belief that ultimately consumers worldwide would want its products. Moreover the oil price rises resulted in an extraordinary growth of profitability of the UAC [United... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

Investment Act, which challenged redlining policies of local banks that set higher hurdles for home-ownership among minorities. But it ended with the recent $5.2 trillion guarantee of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac assets after these... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

choices. Sometimes, even financially savvy HBS graduates overlook important opportunities to reduce risks during these life events or they make poor choices that are hard to unwind. Other financial decisions such as protecting assets... View Details

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

them to earn premium prices by reaching undershot customers. They view flight as a positive development. When there are large groups of undershot customers in the higher tiers of a market, incumbents can beat a long and profitable... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

price and had a dozen offers in front of them. Today, layoffs—particularly at growth stage companies—have led to a massive pullback in startup hiring. Thus, some of the most talented people in our ecosystem are suddenly up for grabs... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

the "patent thicket." In many cases, the pooling agreements also specify the pricing schedule in the agreement that establishes the pool, assuring that no party attempts to extract very high fees or to increase its fees after... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

lower emissions) is becoming the focus of operators. Consumers are shifting their product preferences and investors are incorporating these in their asset allocations and specific investment decisions. There will be large changes in the... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

filing for bankruptcy in the courts often results in a forced wind-down of the business. Management is replaced by a trustee or administrator (who is often an accountant or lawyer by training), the firm’s assets are sold off, and proceeds... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

reports have focused on the record number of filings among corporations with more than $1 billion in assets and spikes in filings among retail and dining firms, overall bankruptcy filings are down,” the authors write. Chapter 7 consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

committed to three new efforts: We will launch a need-based waiver of the application fee for all prospective students in all admissions rounds. We will evaluate and revise our current need-based formula for financial aid to account for parental income and View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

business. An eight-year veteran with the prominent New York venture capital firm of J.H. Whitney & Company, he launched his own shop backed by $8 million from the Bass brothers. Seven Honeywell engineers in Boston had come up with a design for a minicomputer that was... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

there a discount offered for completing multiple courses? Yes. If you’re a new HBS Online learner, you’ll pay full price for your first course and then receive a 30-percent past participant discount off your second and third course. Why... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

operations in several cities, leading to more than $950,000 in financing. “Rarely do financial institutions in the US invest in Black women at the $1 million level, especially when the underlying assets don’t hold much value,” says... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate