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- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
perspective of actual consumer buying patterns, a blazer in an atypical size actually has more in common with a fashion-driven product than with the same style jacket in a popular size. For example, sales for 46-regular, one of the most... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
associated with the loss of position renders the director no longer qualified to serve, the message to the outside world is that board membership is geared to the position, not the person. Stated another way, the apparent objective is to have a board View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
common cyclical nature, whether the crash in question was fueled by land speculation, railroad expansion, the booming life insurance industry, or lax regulation of regional stock exchanges. So, will a deeper... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
investigate whether stocks in the euro area have moved from a regime in which national stock markets were priced with discount rates that were predominantly country specific, to a regime in which national... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
objectives. First, this format allowed us to combine the active student orientation typical of case-based approaches with the systematic construction of cumulative theoretical frameworks more characteristic of lecture-based methods. Second, basing the narrative on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Stochastic Volatility Model." Mathematical Finance 7, no. 4 (October 1997): 399-412. Rosenfeld, Eric. "Stochastic Processes of Common Stock Returns: An Empirical Examination." ; Ph.D. diss., MIT Sloan School... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
desires) ... Why should it be any different for the high-flyers? If they are truly good, is it really necessary to pay them more than they can ever hope to spend?" As Stever Robbins says, "Alignment is still a great idea. We've not seen alignment with recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
payments or deferred-compensation arrangements that serve to obscure total pay. And when clubs get rid of poorly-performing players, they do not generally provide them with the equivalent of a golden parachute—a payout that is common... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
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WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services | Baker Library
Pennsylvania. Strengths include deep archives of historical data, a common web interface for access to all WRDS databases, and a variety of output file formats. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available HBS... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
the right place at the right price. Coca-Cola's mantra always has been to be within an arm's reach of desire. To be out of stock is to lose a sale or, worse, to lose a sale to a competitor. But marketers also understand that, by using the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
organizations, Nolan says, technology has so thoroughly penetrated every aspect of the business that its activities, strategies, and functions have become transparent, thereby circumventing any possibility of the disorienting dot vertigo (symptoms of which include lack... View Details
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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
equity firm, search fund model or a public company that through dual class stock is still family controlled. It is also useful for everyone going into general management and / or want to be responsible owner investors. 90% of the global... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
size of stock markets across countries and on the ownership structure of railways and other companies in France. In one of his books he argues that France was the largest "financial democracy" in the world, because of the large... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
high-beta and high-volatility stocks have long underperformed low-beta and low-volatility stocks. This anomaly may be partly explained by the fact that the typical institutional investor's mandate to beat a fixed benchmark discourages... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
movie survives in theaters is not a very useful measure, because it mostly reflects the choice for either a "platform" or "sleeper" release strategy. The former is common for releases by major studios, whereas the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
communities. Heeding the prewar lesson of Enterprise Associates, the founders agreed to raise $5 million in capital by selling two hundred thousand shares of ARD common stock at $25 a share. The idea of... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
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Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
transactions including mergers, initial and common stock offerings, and debentures. The volumes contain agreements between the sellers and underwriters, prospectuses and other literature advertising an... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
valuation. I looked at what they were doing and came up with an alternative - some say more robust - way to derive the formula that has since turned out to have very wide applicability. But at the time, the work only had direct implications for pricing over-the-counter... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
money supply than the visible money stock like bank notes or specie. 7 The account books of small-time storekeepers show how common credit purchases were, particularly in agricultural or frontier regions.... View Details