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  • June 2010
  • Article

Star Power: Colleague Quality and Turnover

By: Boris Groysberg and Linda Eling-Lee
In this article, we argue that the existence of greater organizational resources, in the form of higher quality colleagues, acts as a retention mechanism. We test our hypotheses using a panel data set of securities analysts in 24 securities firms over a 9-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Human Resources
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  • 03 Sep 2020
  • Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

see which clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others provide the best value." Even if the Trump rules hold up, they cannot provide the full accounting of prices and outcomes the health care system needs. For that, the United States needs a health care analog of... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health
  • 2007
  • Text Book

Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements

By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Financial statements are the basis for a wide range of business analysis. Managers, securities analysts, bankers, and consultants all use them to make business decisions. There is strong demand among business students for course materials that provide a framework for... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Framework; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Statements
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  • 02 Mar 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

Is the Discussion of Infotech Security versus Privacy a Waste of Time? Summing Up Discussion of this month’s question devolved into a debate about the usual issues: privacy versus security, Apple versus the FBI, citizens versus their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

    Jonas Heese

    Jonas Heese is a Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management (A&M) Unit at Harvard Business School.He serves as a course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum and teaches The Anatomy of... View Details

    • 03 May 2010
    • News

    Leaders and Fiduciaries

    • August 2005 (Revised August 2006)
    • Case

    Grupo Martica

    Grupo Martica commissions a computer security expert to conduct an audit of its systems, network, and processes. This audit reveals that Martica is quite vulnerable, and the company's de facto CIO must decide what steps to take to improve security. He wonders how... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Complexity
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    • November 2011
    • Case

    Brink's Company: Activists Push for a Spin-off

    By: Suraj Srinivasan, Aldo Sesia and Amy Kaser
    The case studies the decision of the security services corporation Brink's Company to spin-off its home security division from the rest of the company. The decision followed intense pressure on the company by three activist hedge funds that felt that Brink's was... View Details
    Keywords: Activist Investors; Spin-off; Leveraged Recapitalization; Debt; Valuation; Hedge Funds; Conglomerates; Investment Activism
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk

    By: Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, Ruth Judson and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr
    A confidential dataset with industry-level disaggregation of U.S. cross-border claims and liabilities, shows U.S. securities to be increasingly intermediated by tax-haven-financial-centers (THFC) and less regulated funds. These securities are risky, in... View Details
    Keywords: Tax Havens; Financial Centers; Geography Of Flows; Profit Shifting; Tax Avoidance; Risk; Safe Assets; Hetergeneous Firms; Endogenous Entry; Endogenous Monitoring; Regulatory Arbitrage; Assets; Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; Global Range
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    • June 2013
    • Article

    Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production

    By: Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam
    We present a model that helps explain several past collapses of securitization markets. Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting endogenous scarcity of informed... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Debt Securities; Financial Crisis
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    • 24 Mar 2002
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

    financing private ventures, it can also offer unique rewards. Harvard Business School associate professor Walter Kuemmerle highlighted some of the issues confronting entrepreneurs and investors in a case discussion on Gray Security... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 04 Aug 2023
    • Blog Post

    Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

    closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.” To keep temperature rise to 1.5°C and avoid a cascade of climatological catastrophes—flood, drought, famine, disease, species extinction, and many, many... View Details
    • February 2016 (Revised April 2020)
    • Case

    In the Name of Democracy? The Rise and Decline of India's Congress Party

    By: Akshay Mangla and Jonathan Schlefer
    In 1950 it looked highly doubtful that Indian democracy would hold—typical family income was $6 a month, only about 15% of the population was literate, there were deep religious and ethnic differences, and more than a dozen national languages were spoken. But after a... View Details
    Keywords: Congress Party; Economic Development; Democratization; Economic Reform; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Development Economics; India
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      Ria Sen

      Ria is a JD/PhD student at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. At HLS, she was a John M. Olin Fellow and the winner of the 2021 Victor Brudney Writing Prize. She previously studied Economics and Mathematics at Columbia University, where she was nominated... View Details

      • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 20 Mar 2019
      • HBS Online

      HBS Online Negotiation Mastery

      Hone your negotiation skills with analytical tools, interpersonal techniques, and real-world practice to secure maximum value for yourself and your organization. Program Dates: March 20, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
      • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 07 Aug 2019
      • HBS Online

      HBS Online Negotiation Mastery

      Hone your negotiation skills with analytical tools, interpersonal techniques, and real-world practice to secure maximum value for yourself and your organization. Program Dates: August 7, 2019 - October 2, 2019 View Details
      • October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
      • Case

      Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election

      By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein
      Following a contentious presidential race, Donald Trump’s 2016 election destabilized America’s status quo. Academics, journalists, politicians and the public at large examined why Trump had won. Many Americans, inside and outside the government, asserted that a... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Industry; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business And Government; Business And Public Policy; Business And Society; Media Businesses; Media Content; Media Slant; Media Regulation; Internet Of Everything; Government Policy; Politics; Political Campaigns; Political Strategy; Political Turmoil; Government; Government Regulation; Security; International Business; International Relations; National Security; Political Elections; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; War; Social Media; Public Administration Industry; United States; Russia
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      • February 1992 (Revised July 1993)
      • Case

      Telefonica de Argentina S.A.

      Deals with the privatization of the Argentine telephone industry. Focuses on the restructuring aspect. Commercial banks owned sovereign debt of Argentina trading at a deep discount to par. The question is whether the banks should exchange their sovereign debt... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Instruments; Restructuring; Privatization; Commercial Banking; Telecommunications Industry; Argentina
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      • September 2003 (Revised February 2007)
      • Case

      PolyMedica Corporation (A)

      By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
      The Securities and Exchange Commission and investors question PolyMedica Corp.'s practice of capitalizing rather than expensing of direct-response advertising. View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Earnings; Advertising; Private Sector; Budgets and Budgeting; Cost Management; Capital Markets; Marketing; Private Equity; Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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      • 25 Apr 2017
      • Video

      Flare Wins 2017 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track