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  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at least 50 basis points over ten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Liquidity Dean Jay Light began his introductory remarks by characterizing the crisis and collapse of housing prices as a test that has exposed how fragile the recently evolved U.S. financial system is. "Leverage, transparency, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Banking on Success

you’ll keep the cost line flat and that you have the discipline to raise revenues faster than your competitors, your stock price can rise in double digits,” he said. View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 28 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

of eating at the restaurant, suggesting that a restaurant’s reputation was far more important than menu prices in determining ultimate survival. (On Yelp, the correlation between price and reputation is also... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

taking price surveys, organizing product boycotts, and providing consumer remediation services. “The start of properly regulating the economy is to understand how regulation is made, and this means forgetting what we thought we knew about... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary of the company's 1992 IPO. Net... View Details
  • 2005
  • Working Paper

Wintel: Cooperation or Conflict

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David B. Yoffie
We study the incentives of complementors (producers of complementary products) to cooperate vs. compete and how these interact. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Price; Time Management; Product; Product Development; Research and Development; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

help consumers locate a business or person to handle local service needs, get price quotes, and book appointments. Southern California: Kiwilimón (Deborah Dana Beyda, MBA ’08, cofounder) is a food and recipe Internet portal for... View Details
Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • June 2009
  • Teaching Note

Curled Metal Inc. - Engineered Products Division (TN)

By: Frank V. Cespedes
Teaching Note for [709434]. View Details
Keywords: Sales; Product Development; Customers; Business Divisions; Price; Business Strategy; Cost; Production; Mining Industry
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  • June 2001 (Revised December 2006)
  • Case

Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Gillian D Elcock
Set in the context of the rise and fall of the Internet stocks in the United States. View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Price Bubble; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

P&G recently reported the strongest earnings in its long history, and its stock price has doubled since 2000. Key ingredients in the company's resurgence include innovation, micromarketing, and an emphasis on nurturing talent. Notes... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

at around $450 for months). I don’t expect volatility to go away anytime soon, as it is still highly speculative, highly concentrated and doesn’t have enough liquidity yet. Most people think gold and silver have always been extremely stable; but looking back between... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic firms respond by issuing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2024
  • Case

Google Quantum AI

By: David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano and Matt Higgins
Quantum computing may be the most important nascent computing technology of the 21st century. It has the potential to impact industries ranging from drug discovery to cybersecurity. Google's Quantum AI is one of the leaders in quantum research. This case explores the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Price; Technological Innovation; Resource Allocation; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Detecting Structural Breaks in Inflation Trends: A High-Frequency Approach

By: Alberto Cavallo and Gaston Garcia Zavaleta
We combine standard structural-break methods with high-frequency data to identify shifts in inflation trends. We use this approach to study the inflation dynamics of 25 countries from January 2022 to April 2023 and find evidence of a broad-based slowdown in about half... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Global Range; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Analysis; Price
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

By: Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim and Gwen Yu
We study how the availability of domestic credit influences the contribution that financing activities make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in... View Details
Keywords: Domestic Credit; Return Of Equity; Corporate Performance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Statements; Valuation; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Economic Growth
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  • April 2009 (Revised December 2015)
  • Case

Dot.com: Online Pet Retailing

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
From 1995 to 1999, the U.S. experienced a period of tremendous growth in its information technology (IT) sector. The IT industry, although it accounted for less than 10% of the U.S. economy's total output, contributed disproportionately to economic growth. One market... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Failure; Competitive Strategy; Online Technology; Retail Industry
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  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei Sanyo's stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/PIMAp.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the grands crus classés of the Médoc By: Malter, Daniel Abstract—This paper addresses the recent debate about the causality of status effects and identifies the symbolic effect of status on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne