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  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

insufficient institutional checks and balances. At Enron at the end of 1999, the options that were vested were worth $2.4 billion. That is too much temptation to put in front of people—temptation to sell out secretly, "cooking the... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

Business School Case 211-026 One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management, is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt of Countrywide plc, a financially troubled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Commencement 2019 Address | About

Faced with troubles that seem to be getting worse every year, people are losing trust in existing institutions and their leaders. Capitalism, a system that has brought prosperity to so many, over such long periods of time, across so many... View Details
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

France. An example of special interest will be the widespread laws against the buying and selling of organs for transplantation. The historical record suggests that while repugnance can change over time, it can persist for a very long time, although changes in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives and their View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • Web

Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog

leaders in investing in good jobs that improve worker wellbeing? What role do ecosystems and local/regional economic development initiatives play? Demographics. How will companies and labor market View Details
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

developments. His work examines how "sell-side financial analysts incorporate accounting information in their earnings forecasts, common stock valuations, and investment recommendations." He also analyzes management reporting of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

the leading firm would be costly and could lead to both companies charging less, explains MacKay. One surprise finding of the research was that firms with inferior pricing technology also benefit from this arrangement, so investments in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto, and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al-Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa’s role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri? To... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

two-year orgy of enthusiasm for Internet enterprises. "At some boards of directors," he said, driving the point home, "they institute a $50 fine for every new application you think of." That challenge faced E Ink... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-041 The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies This case is designed to provide an elementary introduction to options and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

traces the consequences of these differences. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44781 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions By: Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

  PublicationsForward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky, eds. Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

raised Audax Group's first fund, and are not able personally to finance the purchase, which would require approximately $30 million. They must decide whether to go through with the purchase, and how to finance it, keeping in mind any issues such an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

lifelong employer due to global competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

traffic are sufficiently improved relative to the offerings of the ad auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace