Filter Results
:
(1,332)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,332)
- Faculty Publications (754)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,332)
- Faculty Publications (754)
- 2010
- Working Paper
When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs
By: Emilie Rose Feldman, Stuart Gilson and Belen Villalonga
We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793 analyst reports written around 62 spinoffs—a setting in which analysts' ability to inform investors is potentially very high. We find that analysts pay little attention to subsidiaries about to be...
View Details
Keywords:
Earnings Management;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Subsidiaries;
Restructuring;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Initial Public Offering;
Price;
Reports;
Research
Feldman, Emilie Rose, Stuart Gilson, and Belen Villalonga. "When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-102, May 2010.
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
world's poor live in countries where governments lack either the will or the ability to raise living standards on their own. Financial assistance to such governments, therefore, has often not helped their neediest citizens. In fact, in...
View Details
Keywords:
by George C. Lodge
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
revenue and physician compensation. Unfortunately, attempting to save time with an AI tool in taking visit notes may actually translate into increased patient loads. If volume-driven financial incentives remain unchanged, there may be...
View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
collective creativity and insight. These two divergent perspectives pose a paradox that has held the attention of scholars for many years. In response, researchers have marshaled evidence to specify the conditions under which diversity...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
creating the right conditions for manufacturing to thrive. Actions it should take include the following: Funding basic and applied scientific research in advanced manufacturing technologies. Supporting training and education. Saving...
View Details
Keywords:
Gary P. Pisano;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles;
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
What happens when a person owns property? Aside from the well-established financial benefits of equity and potential access to credit, there is the equally strong pull of the American Dream and everything it suggests—the idea that through...
View Details
Keywords:
by Julia Hanna
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
provided-physician visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and tests-to the patient outcomes achieved. And we must replace today's fragmented system, in which every local provider offers a full range of services, with a system in which services for particular medical...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
patents or firm starts. This contribution has been rapidly growing over the last three decades. In terms of quality, the average skilled immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but conditional on educational...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Medtronic Vision 2010
Describes the company's year-long efforts to transition from a medical device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Plan;
Transition;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Financial Management;
Financing and Loans;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Strategic Planning;
Health Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Medtronic Vision 2010." Harvard Business School Case 807-051, September 2006. (Revised April 2007.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
might create conditions harmful to its progress. In addition, we wondered what forces, largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it,...
View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Medical Device Industry Council Harvard Business School Case 706-498 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706498 Patrimonio Hoy: A Financial Perspective Harvard Business School Case 207-059...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
frictions throughout the value chain. With these structural impediments in mind, we visited WayCool Foods and Pixxel, two innovative companies that are attempting to improve economic conditions for farmers, while lowering the carbon...
View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
When I was 17, I moved to the US to study. Back home in Greece, the country was succumbing to a financial crisis. I questioned whether I would ever be able to move back to my country. Many years later, I find myself as Director of...
View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
partners such as incubators, accelerators, government agencies, and other organizations, the NVSC aims to facilitate connectivity within the ecosystem, and leverage the intellectual, social, and financial capital of alumni. That might be...
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
financial crisis. Despite this offsetting expansion, the net effect of the contraction in credit was negative, with lower aggregate credit and deposits growth as well as lower entrepreneurial activity through 2015. Download working paper:...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
also discussed. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607081 Dollar General Going Private Harvard Business School Case 108-015 Intended to improve students' understanding and encourage their use of View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the effect of workplace conditions...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Cuts Harvard Business School Case 709-037 As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy in recession, interest rates near zero,...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace