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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Beerport) Scheid relates the story of his escape from Bridgeport, Ohio, a dirt-poor, coal-mining, steel-mill town that more than earned its nickname Beerport. Very few people ever left the town, for sons followed fathers into dead-end... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
associated with R&D investment are uncertain, the past track records of firms may give insight into their potential for future success. We show that a long-short portfolio strategy that takes advantage of the information in past track records View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
the long run. This last element is critical, for there is not enough charity or taxpayer money to make a sustainable difference; only the profit motive can do that. Earning And Learning Rather than merely applying superficial aid, the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment in capital expenditure and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- January 2024
- Supplement
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)
By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney
In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Business Earnings; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Small Business; Change Management; Transition; Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Values and Beliefs; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Profit; Revenue; Spending; Global Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Innovation Strategy; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth Management; Success; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Reputation; Adoption; Expansion; Weather; Mission and Purpose; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; Italy
Zuzul, Tiona, and Susan Pinckney. "Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 724-398, January 2024.
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
hang around with. He promises he won't share that information with anyone. Really? Would you trust him? Well, 2.3 billion Facebook users around the world do, but one thing we know about trust is that it's hard to earn and even harder to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
and increase earnings management and CEO compensation following these board appointments. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/malcofrazIII.pdf Paying to Be Nice: Consistency and Costly Prosocial Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
long-term goals,” says Landon. “Elon Musk’s ultimate mission for SpaceX is to colonize Mars, but he has very smartly focused first on launching spacecraft into orbit—a natural stepping-stone to the long-term goal of the company. The early revenue we are View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
2002 when it sold its HDD (hard disk drive) business to Hitachi and continued to build its position in consulting, where it had better odds of earning the kinds of returns it wanted. And that's also the point that AT&T got to in 2004,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
called Say that allows retail investors, for instance, to ask questions at quarterly earnings meetings (something that was historically reserved for the analysts). And now some of our peers are also embracing this opportunity to give... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
out.” Gertsacov has clearly taken full advantage of his time here. A star HBS rugby and ice hockey player, he’s a gourmet chef whose Thai cooking lessons earned his section $1,600 in its charity auction. He also launched a monthly... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible for the inferior investments, as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
controls for sustainability performance ratings, analyst forecasts, insider trading, institutional ownership, earnings quality, and other voluntary disclosure activity. Changes in material sustainability disclosure are followed by changes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
have more income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Further, relative to adjacent periods, the evidence is concentrated in the two calendar quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election, consistent with heightened incentives for firms to manage View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
amazing. And, in fact, it could take off and land itself, but people get freaked out about that. So the pilot does that because they've got to earn their salary somehow. And this flight, Qantas flight 32 that takes off on this morning in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
remarks Balaraj. “A worker earning a salary of $100 a month will work seven days a week if that’s what it takes to get the job done. It’s a huge competitive advantage.” MANISH KEJRIWAL: "Development needs to be accomplished in a way that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
show that individuals narrowly bracket their equity concerns. Across four experiments including 1,600 subjects, individuals equalize components of payoffs rather than overall payoffs. When earnings are comprised of “small tokens" worth 1... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
day, that came through. But, you know, that's the only assessment I would give. DM: You think you earned this reputation through mutual respect. That you would, you know ... JI: Yeah. And doing things when I didn't need it. I wasn't... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details