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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model suggests regulations that limit the issuance of safe securities in good times. Read:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
linked to Virgin only by brand licensing agreements. Should they expand by signing new licensing agreements? Second, what kind of opportunities should he seek? Should they keep acting as a venture capital firm, nurturing new ventures as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
investing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees and contractors to implement it. The market capitalization of the company dropped over $100 billion in one day, now roughly back to the... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
investment without far-reaching central planning. For example, a developer can install PRT to benefit its own property, thereby establishing initial PRT links without resorting to public funds. Despite the high social and environmental... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
favoring those who break the rules seem counterintuitive. "We invest so much time, energy, and money in trying to fit in, be like everyone else and dress the way we're expected to dress, both in our professional and social lives," Keinan... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either debt or equity. This paper examines the investor protections included in corporate bylaws that enabled corporations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310025-PDF-ENG Note on Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry Harvard Business School Note 310-005 This note was created to supplement classroom discussion in the EC course "Managing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
spend some or all of their bonuses on others—thereby creating what the authors call a "prosocial" workplace—are happier as a result. Managers can enhance that effect by providing opportunities to share the wealth. Aurora Capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building collaborative capabilities, assuming that their existing people and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
School Case 214-021 The Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (A) This case concerns the proposed buyout of Acibadem, a leading hospital chain in Turkey. Abraaj, a MENA region private equity firm, proposes to make its first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
many of these businesses is still challenged," says Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing. "From a profit perspective, from a growth perspective, and more importantly from a return on investment perspective." In addition to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
sales people. The article discusses reasons for that gap, the implications, and an example of what one leadership team did to link better its business strategy with sales investments and behaviors. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
business. Under Ron Johnson's "Fair and Square" program, sales had declined rapidly, and quarterly losses and expensive capital investments had put severe pressure on cash reserves. Ullman decided... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in teamwork. The English workforce redesign experience offers important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
tenants to pay the cost of utilities, which reduces a landlord's incentive to invest in LEED, or in other energy efficiency capital expenditures. However, government lessees are attractive to landlords... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Nomura's Global Growth: Picking Up Pieces of Lehman Harvard Business School Case 210-017 What issues commonly arise in international financial management? Kenichi Watanabe and Takumi Shibata, CEO and COO of Nomura Holdings Inc., one of the leading View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SBs on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q. Examining mechanisms for the change in firm value, we find that managers protected by a SB increased View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne