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  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

especially those seeking to invest in companies with longer-term perspectives? George Serafeim: One important takeaway is that firms with long-term horizons exist! We tend to make sweeping statements and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

companies—over a prospective $4 billion to $6 billion debt investment in the company,” he says. Carnival also faced a flurry of lawsuits from passengers alleging that the company didn’t do enough to keep them safe. Slashing expenses to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

must decide whether to extend this relationship through some formal contractual arrangement. Humana's two divisions transacted extensively with one another before its spin-off, and abruptly cutting these ties risked doing long-term harm... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 08 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

capital to fund its investment thesis, which was derived from Tomas and Rodrigo’s belief that the rise of Colombia’s middle class signaled an enormous untapped investment opportunity. Jaguar hoped to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS students on January 23 as part of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2022
  • Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

drip, drip of steady investment that pays off in gargantuan terms down the road.” The leader needs to develop the right mindset, the willingness to forego short-term profit to build a long-term business that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

acquired than those in a control sample. We argue that the combination of hedge funds' short investment horizons and their large positions in target firms makes M&A the only attractive exit option. The results also suggest that hedge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

association as well as the food and beverage brands that supply them. We’ve invested in the industry and served as corporate board members and leaders of industry coalitions, and we now, as educators, prepare future founders and leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

importance for a concept that inevitably will become confused with other developments in management. For example, how will answers to that question be clouded by the political debate surrounding the importance of ESG (environment, social, and governance) and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

funds had their origin in speculating in international currency markets. Currencies have trends, crises, and turnabouts, all of which makes them ideal for speculation. But rarely does one invest directly in currency markets expecting... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

able to attract talent at a discount; the reverse may be true for stigmatized organizations. Likewise, investments in employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 2002
  • Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
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  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

academic studies on the periphery of HRM are beginning to adopt such a view. We argue that the HRM studies so far have given us much valuable learning but that the subject has now reached a point where we need to take a wider, more contextual, more multilayered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

benefit society: asset stripping, short-term profit at the expense of workers, and long-term stability. “There are certainly a lot of concerns around whether these kind of transactions are indeed fomenting inequality by getting rid of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 24 Feb 2021
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

promising successes on the world’s battlefields as they pursue long-term success. “You don’t want to copy and paste the strategy and tactics” from one war to the next, says Malhotra, the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

reserves when investing in bonds of lower ratings. Ratings are also used in private contracts, for example to define the investment objectives of bond mutual funds. Ratings are a concise and well-understood... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

reputational capital often entails sacrificing short-term gains in return for long-term profit. For example, some negotiators are habitually straightforward, guarding their integrity with great care despite the potential for short-term... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

When evaluating whether to invest in a new idea, senior executives often rely on experts. But these advisers often favor ideas that are easy to execute over tough-to-pull-off but potentially groundbreaking plans. The risk for companies:... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
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