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  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - The year in Review

Faculty Brian K. Baik Accounting & Management Sebastian Hillenbrand Finance Ebehi Iyoha Entrepreneurial Management Elisabeth Kempf Finance Jacqueline Ng Lane Technology & Operations Management Joseph Pacelli... View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Competition in Modular Clusters

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard
The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the activities of R&D, product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands... View Details
Keywords: Price; Profit; Digital Platforms; Industry Clusters; Competition; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
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HBS - The year in Review

Management Seth Neel Technology & Operations Management Charlotte L. Robertson Business, Government & the International Economy Marco Sammon Finance Lumumba B. Seegars Organizational Behavior Faculty Promotions Two faculty members were... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous strides in predicting financial market crashes, panics, and crises. Participants left this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future

insurmountable burden. With that in mind, I attended the college that awarded me the best scholarship and sought out external scholarships and work-study opportunities to avoid relying on student loans. So, when I was admitted to HBS, my... View Details
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

simultaneously manage the seemingly contradictory dualities of the job: integrating direct decision-making with indirect levers like strategy and culture, balancing internal and external constituencies, proactively pursuing an agenda... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

investors had won important victories against large corporations in recent years. Examples of this kind of “David vs. Goliath” battle included BlueBell Capital successfully removing Danone’s CEO in March 2021, Engine No. 1 winning three board seats at ExxonMobil in May... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • News

From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

consistent with external survey results that demonstrate a lack of such alignment is one of the key reasons cited for wanting to leave a current position.) For example, when Adobe began developing a new family of generative AI models... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • 13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect

asset. Agios, awash in cash, wasn’t immediately ready to think about a royalty financing deal, but Model and Mathur stayed in touch. And when Agios decided that the company wasn’t seeing the value of its royalty deal reflected in the... View Details
  • March 2005 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
In 1991, Chile adopted a framework of capital controls focused on reducing the massive flows of foreign investment coming into the country as international interest rates remained low. Capital inflows threatened the Central Bank's ability to manage the exchange rate... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Capital; Governance Controls; Business and Government Relations; Chile
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Alternative Investments ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Alternative Investments $1,850 Next 5-week session... View Details
  • September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
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Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul
The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 16 Jan 2018
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How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

and provides aid to eligible students through our Career Support & Exploration programs which allow students to follow their passion and purpose. 2. Research external fellowshipsThere are a variety of View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

into account external opportunities and threats, the availability of internal resources relative to requirements, the aspirations and values of senior management, and obligations to stakeholders and society. In the context of TEM, this... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Sticky Capital Controls

By: Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro and Andres Fernandez
There is much ongoing debate on the merits of capital controls as effective policy instruments. The differing perspectives are due in part to a lack of empirical studies that look at the intensive margin of controls, which in turn has prevented a quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Capital Controls; Macroprudential Policies; Stickiness; Intensive; (S, S) Costs; Capital; Management; Macroeconomics
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  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

strong interaction between financing choices for innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2519572   Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne