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  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

long-term nonfinancial performance. We use a novel dataset compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and find that firms setting more difficult targets complete a higher percentage of such targets. We also find that this effect is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

and development, Jones says. California was another major player, offering wind firms fixed energy prices and guaranteed income streams for several years. These had the effect of luring major manufacturing companies from other industries... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

was chairman, issued a report that noted, “As railways multiply, the collision of interests between them becomes sharp and violent, and where the combatants on all sides are so powerful and opulent, a more than ordinary vigilance and View Details
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • News

Scaling Hope

Photos by Benjamin Norman In 2014, Stephen D’Antonio (MBA 1986) was living the life he had always envisioned. He’d been a partner at Morgan Stanley for nearly two decades. He sat on the Firm Management Committee and was the COO of the... View Details
  • Web

Industry Information - Alumni

startups–both private or recently public–that are worthy of consideration as places to start or continue a career in StartupLand. Strategy + Business Weekly news website published by certain member firms of... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

only for building an international beauty empire but also for the ginger-lily shower gel he is using these days. As head of the New Yorkbased firm that makes popular scents such as Jovan and Stetson as well... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

hard to quantify in the time-series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

How "sleepy" or "awake" are you when it comes to your stock portfolio? If you're like most people, you probably don't spend a great deal of time monitoring your investments. So when another company uses stock to acquire a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • August 1994 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

ITT Automotive: Global Manufacturing Strategy (1994)

By: Gary P. Pisano and Sharon L. Rossi
ITT Automotive is in the process of developing a new-generation antilock brake system (ABS), designated the MK-20. The case focuses on the level of automation to be used in the production of this new system, and whether all plants should use the same process... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Innovation Strategy; Production; Product Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Belgium; Germany; United States
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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Current Research

Information Dissemination in Capital Markets

 

Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

solving some of the world’s most pressing problems. "The course has completely changed me today. I feel like a new person, with a new thought process, driven by purpose, committed to doing the right thing."... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

Above: Dowling at home in New York City: “There’s no one model for being a working parent.” Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) had built a successful career in leadership development and executive coaching at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 24 Jan 2011
  • HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

world's collective conscience. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees.” A new multimedia case by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé offers a flip side to the nightmarish scenes that unfolded in real time on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations
  • 26 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life.  Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In several markets, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 1993 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

COMCO Holding AG (B): COMCO Martech

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
COMCO Martech was a new breed of joint venture for COMCO Holding, a mid-sized Swiss-German company that had grown over a five-year period through tie-ups with small, start-up companies. Whereas a typical COMCO venture provided services to a large German retailer, was... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Business Startups; Trade; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Switzerland; United States; Europe
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  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

Diversification By: Kuppuswamy, Venkat, George Serafeim, and Belén Villalonga Abstract—Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.” Eisenmann has developed a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding