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Turnarounds and Transformation

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  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

and other ancillary services such as mergers and acquisition work, private placements, asset financings, and so on. The mixed results of prior research that we summarized in the Investor Relations Quarterly article are not surprising if... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016

endowment gifts and gifts for capital projects, current use giving has proved vital as a flexible source of seed money to launch visionary initiatives, such as FIELD, the Harvard i-lab, and HBX. The HBS community has responded with... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

supplier—they may stress the importance of many dimensions of cooperation, the mutual need for service and quality, and the long-term time horizon of the joint effort. Yet the retail buyer, for instance—mainly compensated on the basis of View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/when-should-a-platform-give-people-fewer-choices-and-charge-more-for-them.htm Institutionalizing Self-Regulation: The Effect of Commitment, Threat and Surveillance Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Challenges Authors:Michael I. Norton, Samuel R. Sommers, and Sara Brauner Periodical:Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (in press) Contingent Political Capital and International Alliances: Evidence from South Korea Author:Jordan I.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

capital market. Analysts and money managers are mostly worried about quarterly performance. That filters all the way back to management, which feels pressure to deliver good numbers for the next quarter's... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

at the number of times investors accessed environmental and social data on Bloomberg terminals and ranked countries based on the number of "hits," accounting for the size of each country's capital market. We also developed a call to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

and shapers of, beauty ideals. It uses case studies of three prominent firms to support the argument. During the nineteenth century, Coty and other French firms imagined Paris as the global capital of beauty. During the middle of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

the nature of competition. Furthermore, relative to platforms that cannot charge such fees, platforms that charge positive (negative) access fees to consumers have weaker (stronger) incentives to divert search August 2013 Quarterly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

to engage with,” Weinzierl says. “It helps that we’re at a remarkable point in history where we have people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk with the vision and the capital to even make such a discussion possible.” “If a private company can... View Details
Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related negatively to announcement... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

global capitalism are also shown to have been complex. The book demonstrates the unique ability of capitalism to create wealth for societies through innovation, yet also cautions that the history of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

in terms of both the bankruptcy code and the cultural attitudes toward corporate restructuring. This case can fit into an introductory course in a module on capital structure and the tradeoff between the costs and benefits of debt or in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Periodical:Administrative Science Quarterly 52, no. 3 (September 2007): 32-69 Abstract This study of the procurement relationships of two major U.S. auto manufacturers examines the effects of two dimensions of organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

Risk Management to Equity and Credit Analysis Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly 24 (December 2007) Abstract Traditional conventions of accounting and actuarial science distort the valuation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1344068 The Pursuit of Power Corrupts: Investing in Outside Options Motivates Opportunism in Relationships Authors:D. Malhotra and F. Gino Publication:Social Psychological Perspectives on Power and Hierarchy."... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

more than 20 case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning organizational design, human View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne