Financial - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

stock and see if it is positive or negative.” Finance is another field in which Teodorescu predicts that machine learning will become more common, as banks and financial companies will use data about how customers use money to predict... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

terms of not only financial performance but management practices and reputation in the community. The result of her efforts is the MBA elective course Globalization, Culture, and Management. According to Paine, as students examine the... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics last year, The Performance of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

consistently increase or decrease in quality level” Sheen decided to pursue the product perspective of mergers in order to help determine the cause of post-merger financial effects. "On average, the previous research has shown that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

respondents helped frame the challenge of "just enough." For example, Saurabh Dwivedy commented, "So long as there is humankind, there will be unfulfilled desires and broken dreams and a longing for 'being there.'" Pointing out the distinction... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

web of business ties, lending, and cross-shareholdings. In Germany's financial sector, it might be the insurance giant Allianz. In Italy, it may be a set of powerful families. In Russia, it can be the Russian mafia and other protection... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

function that made it clear the CEO could carry the new firm forward. An affiliation with a previous employer, which suggested skills and connections that could benefit the young firm. Other people on the core management team—the chief View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

sources of support, both financial and nonfinancial, for such institutions? And aren't these some of the very dilemmas faced by organizations encountering the "innovator's dilemma"? What do you think? Original Article There are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

suboptimal, and they used these insights to start developing their own solutions. It was a real privilege when a Big 4 audit firm that participated in my research gave me direct access to its clients. Across an array of clients I interviewed and surveyed nearly 100... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

02 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

inevitable early losses involved with the new acquisition. Moreover, the company’s principal financiers were venture capital investors, and an IPO or sale would represent an investment exit for them, and their goal is return maximization.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

for the company. It was about keeping the business unit alive and not jeopardizing thousands of jobs overnight." A financial analysis of the return on such contracts called those beliefs into question. "After completing a thorough audit... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

Chrysler South Africa, who had returned to his native South Africa after apartheid ended, motivated a hostile, unproductive black work force by engaging with them in their dream of building a Mercedes for Mandela. This was all about culture, not about View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

14 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 14

political party dynamics, terrorist attacks, rising infrastructure and energy demands, and a global financial crisis. How can the nation's leaders implement economic reforms to ensure continued development? Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

development. The multiple measures will typically include both financial and non-financial measures that are leading and lagging indicators of performance. They may be used in a balanced scorecard, shareholder value-added, or other... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

offers free cradle-to-grave service on a financial software product that costs, at most, $50, said Frei. If Intuit fielded the same number of customer service calls as its competition, it would be out of business, she said. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

innovations on their own, the entire corporate R&D budget would now be dedicated to producing breakthroughs. Bradley knew that attempting to manage these projects under the constraints of the old organization would not work. Inevitably, conflicts over the... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

Investors diligently manage financial portfolios to maximize returns on their assets; yet corporate managers who invariably proclaim their business customers to be "valuable assets" rarely manage their relationships with them... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

don't "get." They put up a web site that anyone can access, but it's hollow; there is nothing there other than some financials and a picture of the company's headquarters. They haven't understood how to create the store like... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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