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- December 2010
- Article
The Case for Professional Boards
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected by the agency distortions commonly found in full-fledged state-owned firms. Using panel data from publicly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
probably the single most remarkable thing about the historical narrative is the length of time for which firms' international economic activities were apparently motivated entirely by considerations of arbitrage, with no replication in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
technology to erase debt CEO and cofounder Rohan Pavuluri (AB 2018) was inspired to launch Upsolve, which helps low-income and working-class families overcome financial distress, after learning that a bankruptcy lawyer costs a prohibitive... View Details
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Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade off service quality and price, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
The Medicaid program provides a much needed health insurance safety net for 52 million of our nation's poor and medically needy, but its price tag threatens the financial stability of the states, growing 9.5 percent in 2004 alone—far... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
boutique investment firm; Bear Stearns; and then Gruss Partners, where he concentrated on risk arbitrage and bankruptcy investing. In 1994, Paulson was ready to return to his entrepreneurial roots and set up... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
Investindustrial's team had the following exit alternatives: 1) a trade sale to an automotive buyer; 2) a secondary buyout, partial or complete, by a financial investor; 3) a relisting in Hong Kong. Each... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
a social mission. In what is one of the first commercial financing deals in the world, Akula must decide at what value to sell equity in SKS, and to whom to sell it. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
to indicate the opposite: the company claimed that it had no other choice because the sides failed to conclude a contract on the terms of future trade. The case takes a look back in history for clues that may resolve this paradox. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities (NPEs) View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
Rebalancing by Individual Investors Authors:Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini Abstract This paper investigates the dynamics of individual portfolios in a unique dataset containing the disaggregated wealth of all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Baker Library Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
between two broad, general varieties of state capitalism: one through majority control of publicly traded companies (e.g., state-controlled SOEs) and a hybrid form that relies on minority investments in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Started in June 2013, TTIP negotiations had gone on much longer than anyone had expected. With elections coming on both sides of the Atlantic and a rising opposition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 1998 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Han Young Labor Dispute (A), The
Examines the evolution of a labor dispute at the Han Young maquiladora in Tijuana, Mexico. The dispute began over union representation at a 120-worker company, but soon escalated into a source of tension between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and a test for the... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; International Relations; Labor Unions; Trade; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Government Relations; Canada; United States; Mexico
Kennedy, Robert E., and Brian Irwin. "Han Young Labor Dispute (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 799-084, December 1998. (Revised October 1999.)
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to persistent fluctuations View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and production levels in the face of uncertainty about pollution permit prices. Students form groups of five, and throughout the exercise students may buy or sell permits within their group. Trading outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne