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- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the demand by issuing equity. We use time-series... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
West, and Christian Lebiere Publication:Special Issue on Decisions from Experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (forthcoming) Abstract Erev, Ert, and Roth organized three choice prediction competitions focused on three related... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
explore a wide range of contemporary business issues and top management concerns. Beyond that, the program was aimed at giving these leaders the opportunity to reap the benefits of spending time with other top-level women executives. In a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
for the addition to the company's balance sheet of a significant amount of new debt and a reshaping of the capital structure. While leveraged buyouts had been used in Europe for several years, this was likely the first LBO done with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
reported in the trade literature are used to illustrate policy issues as well as the spillover effects and resolution of disputes. To cope with these developments, two significant changes in conflict policies evident in current U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
is reinventing how organizations compete in the digital world. The School welcomed the first cohort of fellows at the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), bringing together researchers and practitioners to address critical View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
the freedom to pursue the questions that interest them most and stay close to practice, generating insights that can help address the most pressing issues confronting businesses, organizations, and society. The faculty then bring the... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
many U.S. airlines, the debt owed to customers in the form of miles is a value significantly larger than the airlines' market capitalization. This is simply not sustainable. Airlines have already reduced the value of miles by making seats... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get at the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Business: Innovating How We Innovate Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Special Issue on Management Innovation-Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. ChandlerIndustrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 2 (2010): 465-482. Abstract Science has long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
non-viable project into the viable camp. An example might be a community solar project that would not generate enough cash flow on its own to attract bank debt and thus would not get built—unless the additional capital made it work for... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
is set at the close of the annual meeting in May 2008, when shareholders have voted against all incumbent board members. Steel Partners must act quickly. The case serves as an overview of corporate governance issues in Japan, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
can’t yet afford to pay market rates. For some qualifying students, the Rock Loan Forgiveness Program helps reduce their debt burden after graduation. FAST FACTS 45 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Rock Executive Fellows, and Venture Capital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
activities, we found that they feel compelled to address hot-button issues and are guided by their own values as well as the history and culture of their organization. They also complement their public activities with a “ground game”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Business School Case 213-008 High yield bond fund Proventus Capital Partners (PCP) has invested in underwater bonds issued by Preem, a large oil refinery. As maturity approaches, in the midst of financial crisis, Preem appear unlikely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne