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- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
granted. In sharp contrast, investors in Enron could not judge the value—on the basis of the information they were given—of the contingent liabilities that Enron had incurred either for itself or for its complex SPEs. But even much fuller... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
publishers and retailers to social networks and gaming sites. Job growth on the Internet stands in sharp contrast to the US economy as a whole, which has suffered from high unemployment for years. The report found that the gross domestic... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Financial Studies Abstract This paper examines how financial constraints and product market exposures determine the response of multinational and local firms to sharp depreciations. U.S. multinational affiliates increase sales, assets,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
Their comments concentrated on ways of getting women into positions with the power to hire and promote. Seena Sharp suggested that “Gender equality will be achieved when both women AND men participate in making it happen Women need to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
number of very sharp and very important junctures." Critical Junctures The first critical juncture was the invention of the printing press, which made it possible to have a media industry to begin with. The second major juncture... View Details
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
individual songs. And because song prices are relatively low—labels typically have to sell 8 to 10 digital songs to generate the same kind of revenues as they do with one digital album—this causes a sharp reduction in revenues over time.... View Details
- (Revised May 2024)
- Teaching Note
Lyric Dinner Theater (A) and (B)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Jim Sharpe and Noah Fisher
This teaching note is associated with HBS cases 813-043 and 813-044. View Details
- November 2006 (Revised August 2012)
- Background Note
A Strategic Perspective on Bankruptcy
By: Bill George, Jim Sharpe and Andrew N. McLean
An overview of bankruptcy procedures in U.S. courts, recent filing data and a framework for evaluating a reorganization with creditors or considering opening a court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Turnarounds; Legal Aspects Of Business; Liquidation; Boards Of Directors; Hedge Funds; Strategy; Law; Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation; Crisis Management; Policy; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit; Financial Crisis; United States
George, Bill, Jim Sharpe, and Andrew N. McLean. "A Strategic Perspective on Bankruptcy." Harvard Business School Background Note 407-035, November 2006. (Revised August 2012.)
- Article
Managing the Narrative: Investor Relations Officers and Their Interactions with Sell-Side Analysts and Institutional Investors
By: Lawrence D. Brown, Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement and Nathan Y. Sharp
Investor relations officers (IROs) play a central role in corporate communications with Wall Street. We survey 610 IROs at U.S. public companies and conduct 14 follow-up interviews to deepen our understanding of the role of IROs in corporate disclosure events. Three... View Details
Brown, Lawrence D., Andrew C. Call, Michael B. Clement, and Nathan Y. Sharp. "Managing the Narrative: Investor Relations Officers and Their Interactions with Sell-Side Analysts and Institutional Investors." Journal of Accounting & Economics 67, no. 1 (February 2019): 58–79.
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
that triggered economic chaos in that nation. Along with Argentina's current struggles—the sharp devaluation of its currency, rampant inflation, and civil unrest—past financial problems remain unresolved and much on the minds of its... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
outspokenness of business leaders, marks a sharp break with the past 15 years when CEOs kept their heads down to concentrate on running their own businesses. In part, they were reacting to the challenges of the Great Recession as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
companies have teams of economists, and lots of the smaller companies are starting to hire handfuls of them.” The list includes Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, and numerous smaller companies. Tech companies are turning to sharp... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
the app and the company’s rising market valuation as proof that its business methods were justified. “Many people argued that this startup sharp elbow style—in which the thing that the company was doing was so important that the rules... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
environment, where there is so much pressure on directors, I think there can be a tendency for directors to want to cross the line a little too much sometimes, on the operating side, probing committees on every little subject that comes up." In View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
on five to 10 years of monthly sector returns that are initially drawn from a known multivariate normal distribution. Mean-variance optimization is designed to produce the highest ratio of excess portfolio return to portfolio standard deviation (i.e. the highest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
least gives management the ability to preserve a viable business and create greater value than would be otherwise available for all the firm's stakeholders—in sharp contrast to other countries where "bankruptcy" automatically... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
both sides of the fence (leaders and the led) avoid or diminish the kind of tension that happened at Maverick? A: Leaders need to seek feedback before significant bad events transpire. At Maverick, although morale had gone down, there was no mass exodus of employees to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace