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  • August 2022
  • Case

Air Wars: Deregulating the U.S. Airline Industry

By: Tom Nicholas and James Weber
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the U.S. government assisted in the development of an airline industry by subsidizing the delivery of mail and allowing mail carriers to also fly passengers. Because the government awarded mail routes to the lowest... View Details
Keywords: Government Regulation; Deregulation; Change Management; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Business History; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Labor; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Industry Structures; Operations; Strategy; Adaptation; Competition; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Bubbles for Fama By: Robin Greenwood , Andrei Shleifer & Yang You FEB 2017 Authors Greenwood, Shleifer, and You evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles using US and international stock return data.... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

unit at Harvard Business School strives to be the worldwide leader in research, course development, and teaching on top managements' use of performance measurement systems to: Communicate with external investors to ensure that their firms' securities are fairly View Details

    Malcolm P. Baker

    Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

    His research is in the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation
    • 24 Jul 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: July 24

      PublicationsThe Need for Sector-Specific Materiality and Sustainability Reporting Standards Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Jr., Michael P. Krzus, Jean Rogers, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Even though the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Sep 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University

    • 17 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: January 17

    http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset Pricing Studies... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Dec 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

    Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
    • November 2008
    • Supplement

    NEC Electronics (CW)

    By: C. Fritz Foley, Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
    Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC trade at a discount to their fundamental value? Can Perry Capital, a U.S. hedge fund, restructure this subsidiary and generate significant returns? This case provides students with... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Decisions; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Price; Ownership; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Electronics Industry; Japan; United States
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    • January 2016
    • Case

    Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
    This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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      E. Scott Mayfield

      Scott Mayfield is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School. Prior rejoining the faculty in 2011, Professor Mayfield was an assistant professor and member of the Finance Unit at HBS from 1997 to... View Details

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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      and structured finance. Luke explains how Key Carbon is financing high-integrity carbon projects and how new overlaps between the voluntary and compliance carbon markets are at the center of their investment strategy. He provides a... View Details
      • July 2007 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      Berkshire Partners: Purchase of Rival Company (A)

      Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, was pleased with their recent investment in the Holmes Group, a home comfort consumer electronics company. The portfolio company was exceeding key financial targets and Berkshire Partners was confident that it would... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Capital Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry; Boston
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      Finance - Faculty & Research

      produces research addressing issues of present and future importance to managers, regulators, and policy-makers. Finance Unit Our intellectual roots are based in a long line of scholars from Robert Merton whose collaborative work on risk management and option View Details

        Robert C. Merton

        Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

        Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

        Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
        • 16 Apr 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: April 16

        of integrated services. Executive Peter Barge is put in charge of a new team, called Corporate Solutions, whose mission was to draw connections between the service lines in order to foster integration. How should Barge structure Corporate... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 14 May 2018
        • Research & Ideas

        Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

        other hand, always prided itself on its personal touch, empowering individual stores—even individual employees—to make decisions about products that emphasize high quality, healthy, and local foods. That decentralization, however, caused enormous inefficiencies that... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
        • 09 Dec 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        Unilever—A Case Study

        of "BO," "Undie Odor," and "Dishpan Hands," and to market the cures in the form of Lifebuoy and Lux Flakes. By the end of the 1930s sales exceeded $90 million, and in 1946 they reached $150 million. By the interwar years soap had a firmly... View Details
        Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
        • 24 Jun 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: June 24

        framework for the analysis of SEPs, identifies several types of inefficiencies attached to the lack of price commitment, shows how structured price commitments restore... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • January 2005 (Revised March 2008)
        • Case

        Kohler Co. (A)

        Kohler Co., best known for its plumbing fixtures, is a large, private family firm. As part of a recapitalization aimed at preserving family ownership of Kohler Co., nonfamily shareholders, who held 4% of common stock, were required to sell their shares to the company.... View Details
        Keywords: Family Business; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Stocks; Price; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation
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