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  • May 1991 (Revised October 1993)
  • Case

Collision Course in Commercial Aircraft: Boeing-Airbus-McDonnell Douglas--1991 (A)

By: David B. Yoffie
Describes the competitive situation that has arisen in the commercial aircraft manufacturing industry since Airbus entered in 1970. Having overtaken McDonnell Douglas for second place, Airbus announces plans to challenge market leader Boeing's last pocket of dominance.... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Trade; Ethics; Investment; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Sales; Competitive Strategy; Technology Adoption; Air Transportation Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 2014
  • Article

Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns

By: Robin Greenwood and Dimitri Vayanos
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 for specific maturities trade with arbitrageurs.... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Investment Return
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  • 21 Aug 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Anandi Mani
  • Career Coach

Rohit Sahni

investment pitches, accounting and financial questions, and financial modeling. Rohit enjoys helping students explore a profession within financial services. He also enjoys helping students communicate and synthesize their motivations,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

School of Business, estimates that the total cost to long-term mutual fund investors of just the latter of these practices is about $5 billion per year. John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard family of mutual funds, suggests that mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Clayton S. Rose

    Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • 15 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: November 15

    prevailing research norm. The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities Author:John D. Macomber Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (summer 2011) Abstract Three trends will drive urban... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • April 22, 2021
    • Article

    Shareholders Are Pressing for Climate Risk Disclosures. That's Good for Everyone

    By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
    Does shareholder activism induce firms to voluntarily disclose climate change risks? And how do markets respond to these disclosures? New research finds that the extent of climate-risk disclosure increases by approximately 4.6% for each environment-related proposal... View Details
    Keywords: Reporting; Transparency; Activism; Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Engagement; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 11 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

    business experience after graduation, but eventually would want to pursue a management and leadership education. I applied to the 2+2 deferred admission program because it was a great fit for my long-term goals. Did 2+2 change your path... View Details
    • 31 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

    School finance professor Luis Viceira, an expert on investment management and capital markets, offered his views on how this happened, what it means, and how high the Dow may go in the future. Jim Aisner:  Last week the Dow closed above... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner
    • 05 Jul 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

    acknowledge the value of spending time with one's family, but I do not discount the overall advantage a society enjoys when its members are at the peak of their productivity." Clearly, many organizations regard work-life benefits (as a subset of all benefits) as... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 14 Nov 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: November 14, 2006

    Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dow Chemical made a major investment in the Halle-Leipzig region, one of the largest chemical industry sites in Europe. The executive in charge of Dow's operations in the region, Bart... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Oct 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

    Like investing in a mansion when the real-estate market is at its peak, buying a dry bulk ship in a boom time is a terrible long-term investment, according to new research that predicts cycles in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation
    • March 2008
    • Case

    Novartis AG: Science-Based Business

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
    Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with over $38B in sales in 2007. Pharmaceuticals account for slightly over $24B of that total. In 2007,... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 22 Feb 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

    in Philanthropy, who willspearhead the effort along with Allen Grossman, Bloomberg Senior Lecturerin Philanthropy. But a new understanding is emerging: these dollars, whilecharitable, are still capital investments of precious... View Details
    Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
    • June 2010
    • Article

    A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice

    By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
    We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro liquidity providers, absorbing the large supply shocks associated with changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Investment Return; Government and Politics
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    • 17 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

    As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in... View Details
    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
    • 2008
    • Book

    The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

    By: Niall Ferguson
    Niall Ferguson traces the historical evolution of the financial system, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls "Planet Finance." In doing so, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, from the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial History; Money; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Investment; Globalization
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    Investor Activism and Takeovers

    By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor
    Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely explained by the ability of activists to force target firms into a takeover: In... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Public Ownership
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      Dwight B. Crane

      Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance.  He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently... View Details