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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
implement the layoffs quickly—in less than a year—to minimize workplace disruptions and gain credibility with the capital market. For some companies, however, strategic and business factors could warrant a more gradual approach to... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
Hiatt and Sangchan Park Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory agencies' decision making. We posit that regulatory agencies are influenced by the firms they regulate but not exclusively via political... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
countries through both formal business relationships and informal contacts. Formal mechanisms run the spectrum from direct financial investment in overseas businesses that pursue technology opportunities to facilitating contracts and... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
despite recent problems. On a more strategic level, he needed to recommend how to take the company's Sustainability Initiative to the next level and consider whether changes were needed to its organizational structure. Finally, he needed to develop a more systematic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
from making unnecessary new investments in capacity. For example, the vice president of operations at Lewis-Goetz, a hose and belt fabricator based in Pittsburgh, saw from his time-driven ABC model that one of his plants was operating at... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their workplaces. What makes them... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 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
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
crafting their identities; and transforming obstacles into opportunities. Beyond personal strengths, the authors say, another factor was critical: nurturing relationships with mentors who recognized the women’s talent and made it their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
expanded, while disagreements on the terms of natural gas supplies have been resolved. The case describes the impact of the interplay of great power politics, domestic political considerations, and economic factors on the efforts of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
the effectiveness, commitment, and performance of their organizations over the years. We have realized that the leader can be a limiting factor in a journey to transform an organization into a high commitment, high performance (HCHP)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
CNET Networks, Bonnie was a managing director at Tiger Management, a New York-based investment firm. Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999), Symbol Capital Mr. Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, where he... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits beyond businesses. As the thinking goes, middle class workers will see their compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
that help people solve problems in their daily lives. That investment focus on manufacturing would go against the private equity trend, another factor he considered. But he knew few, if any, general partners... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment
about 14% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and about half of global oil consumption. Transportation infrastructure is particularly at risk of disruption from climate change. Finance & Investing Identifying Risk & Opportunity... View Details
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders
By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
Farre-Mensa, Joan. "Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders." 2010.
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
(A): U.S. Treasuries in November 2008 Ryan D. Taliaferro and Stephen BlythHarvard Business School Case 211-049 Investment manager James Franey confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
magnitude of 3% to 7% lower than corresponding buy-and-hold fund returns. Using factor models of risk and the estimated dollar-weighted performance gap, we find that the real alpha of hedge fund investors is close to zero. In absolute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne