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- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49614 October 2015 Journal of Finance The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments By: Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford Abstract—Traditional risk factor models indicate that hedge funds...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
George is the finance director for the Post Carbon Institute, a California think tank dedicated to promoting sustainable energy that recently examined the Bakken in its report Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts...
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- April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
- Supplement
TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to dramatically change how View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
point—comes too late to have a meaningful impact on people's lives.” “We're not saying that medical debt doesn't matter,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Raymond Kluender, the study’s lead author, noting researchers were...
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- 2007
- Working Paper
Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment...
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Multinational Activity;
Horizontal FDI;
Vertical FDI;
Stages Of Production;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business Subsidiaries;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Competency and Skills;
Production
Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton. "Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13447, September 2007.
- 2011
- Working Paper
From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns
By: David A Lax and James K. Sebenius
Negotiation scholars typically take the individual deal, or a few linked deals, as the unit of analysis. While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of...
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Negotiation Deal;
Framework;
Business Subsidiaries;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Information Management;
Finance;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Corporate Governance;
Business and Government Relations;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Lax, David A., and James K. Sebenius. "From Single Deals to Negotiation Campaigns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-046, December 2011.
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
to lead the way, forcing other countries to act with or without an agreement? And should countries that will benefit most from the entrepreneurial opportunity, as Bharath Krishnan and Ajay Kumar Gupta implied, help finance others? What do...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
leadership position in the Northeast through the strategic use of new technology, marketing savvy, and a management style that encouraged staff to invest themselves in their work. In 1996, BayBanks merged with Bank of Boston to form BankBoston. As with his earlier...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
as a business student at nearby Brigham Young University, pursing a degree in organizational behavior. The original plan was to go into accountancy, but a finance internship was enough to convince her that...
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- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
unionized while others do not? “It turns out there was something that happened in the 1930s that set the rank of unionization in place across states in the United States, and that rank has stayed roughly the same ever since,” says Lauren H. Cohen, the L.E. Simmons...
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by Carmen Nobel
- July 1997 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Chase Manhattan Corporation: The Making of America's Largest Bank
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Cedric Escalle
Chase Bank and Chemical Bank intend to merge, producing the largest commercial bank in the United States, the fourth largest in the world. Projected financial benefits under the merger reflect significant planned reduction in operating costs, including 17,000 employee...
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Commercial Banking;
Profit;
Corporate Strategy;
Value Creation;
Restructuring;
Negotiation;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Resignation and Termination;
Revenue;
Banking Industry;
United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Cedric Escalle. "Chase Manhattan Corporation: The Making of America's Largest Bank." Harvard Business School Case 298-016, July 1997. (Revised April 1998.)
- Profile
Joseph Abel
bigger.” Two years at Bain & Co. gave Joe an insider’s perspective on the connections between energy and climate change; one that became even deeper when he took on multiple roles at Sungevity, a small but innovative solar-energy View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
A Model of Drive and Impact
Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
Finance I course. Coming from an operational background, I had very limited exposure to interpreting problems and solutions through a financial lens. After finally admitting to myself that I was not going to master these concepts on my...
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- December 2011
- Article
Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In...
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Spending;
Private Sector;
Taxation;
Innovation and Invention;
Interest Rates;
Business and Government Relations;
Investment;
Employment;
Power and Influence
Cohen, Lauren, Joshua Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy. "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" Journal of Political Economy 119, no. 6 (December 2011): 1015–1060. (Click here for a response to Snyder and Welch, click here for the data, and click here for the code.)
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
another shot and afterward immediately felt how exercise improved her productivity and mindset. Gomih was hooked and started quickly introducing lifestyle changes to make fitness and wellness central to her life. Business School,...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
persuade people, when the country was falling apart, that you see an incredible opportunity to move ahead,” she says. But all of those cases from second-year Entrepreneurial Finance proved invaluable in helping her grow the View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- October 2009 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo
By: Guhan Subramanian and Nithyasri Sharma
In late September 2008, amidst the spiraling financial crisis, many firms on Wall Street were in a precarious position. One such institution was Wachovia, which entered acquisition talks with Citigroup and Wells Fargo. This case describes the development of these...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Crisis;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Managerial Roles;
Banking Industry;
United States
Subramanian, Guhan, and Nithyasri Sharma. "Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo." Harvard Business School Case 910-006, October 2009. (Revised November 2011.)
- September 2003
- Case
Driving Change at Seagate
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Douglas A Raymond and Lyn Baranowski
A new CEO, Steve Luczo, together with COO Bill Watkins, have led a turnaround of Seagate, raising productivity dramatically and increasing innovation through teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, and other transformations in the culture of this manufacturer of disk...
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Growth and Development;
Transformation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Groups and Teams;
Performance Productivity;
Initial Public Offering;
Going Public;
Information Technology Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Douglas A Raymond, and Lyn Baranowski. "Driving Change at Seagate." Harvard Business School Case 304-002, September 2003.