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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
and cause-related marketing. This excerpt focuses on the collaborative stages.Collaborations between businesses and nonprofit organizations are becoming more prevalent, important, and complicated. Marketing plays an increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
conversation. What are the major market forces that are transforming the health-care system? First and foremost, it's consumers. They have already revolutionized the retailing and information industries because they are so busy working... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
head — incurred from Pop Warner through the NFL — have rocked the sport. (One telling statistic: NFL veterans can expect much shorter lives than the male population at large.) Many other contact sports — boxing, ice hockey, soccer,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk William K.L. Fung (MBA 1972): E-Commerce and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
potential value of new technologies by first holding them up against the company's business model.We argue that successful firms tend to interpret the potential value of nascent technologies in the context of the dominant business model already established in the firm.... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
similar to long-maturity fixed-rate debt. If the pension fund enters into an equity asset swap in which it pays the total return on a standard index of the stock market (e.g., S&P 500) and receives in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
Portnet a global standard, particularly as the state-run corporation expands overseas. It now has about ten port ventures in seven countries. Khoo reckons that within the next six years, more than a third of PSA’s business will come from outside Singapore. PSA is to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Online Fashionistas
only a day or two) of a single designer’s clothing line or a small group of brands, all at discounts of up to 70 percent. Having “revolutionized the fashion world” (Forbes.com, June 15, 2010), the company is expecting revenues of $400 to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
hoping that will align market expectations with its policy views. But in some cases, markets just disagree with Fed approaches, and there’s not much they can do about that. The... View Details
- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
How much is a CEO worth? What is appropriate compensation for the leader of a large and complex organization? One frequent reply has been “Let the market decide.” The “market” apparently decided that Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld was... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a centralized market for such... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
over-involvement (of) customers have led to bitter intellectual property right disputes customers simultaneously trying to drive the product in two (or more) very separate market directions (or) feature creep that literally prevents... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Phillips and Nelson: Book reviews are their business. Courtesy Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips Three years after launching Bookmarks magazine, a bimonthly guide to new books, Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips (both MBA ’95) are still refining their View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
interest rates than predicted by the standard expectations hypothesis. We find that, since 2000, such high-frequency "excess sensitivity" remains evident in U.S. data and has, if anything, grown stronger. By contrast, the positive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- January 2011
- Supplement
Matrix Capital Management (C)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-060, January 2011.
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Your Customer Relationships By: Avery, Jill, Susan Fournier, and John Wittenbraker Abstract—Consumers have always had relationships with brands, but sophisticated tools for analyzing customer data are finally allowing marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn’t reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period, the equity markets in the United States outperformed the rest of the world in... View Details