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Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal? (with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
We model and calibrate the arguments in favor and against short-term and long-term debt. These arguments broadly include: maturity-term premium, tax smoothing, rolling over risk and the cost from defaulting. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion,... View Details
- January 2022
- Background Note
The Florange Law: Encouraging Long-Termism in Equity Markets?
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Tonia Labruyere
This note provides background information on a French law (“the Florange law”) passed in 2014 that the French government said would encourage long-term shareholdings. The note describes the law, what led to it, the reactions it evoked, and similar initiatives in other... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Activism; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Policy; Rights; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Accounting Industry; France
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Tonia Labruyere. "The Florange Law: Encouraging Long-Termism in Equity Markets?" Harvard Business School Background Note 122-065, January 2022.
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
At an event at Harvard Business School that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish US economy—a move that may require a new definition of "competitiveness." Highlighting the panel... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- July 2000
- Article
Managerial Decisions and Long-Term Stock-Price Performance
By: Mark Mitchell and Erik Stafford
Mitchell, Mark, and Erik Stafford. "Managerial Decisions and Long-Term Stock-Price Performance." Journal of Business 73, no. 3 (July 2000). (Winner of Merton Miller Prize Given annually for the best paper published in the Journal of Business.)
- August 2024
- Supplement
Discerene Group: Long-Term Public-Markets Investing
By: Luis M. Viceira and Brent Schwarz
- October 2012 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
Brazil's Enigma: Sustaining Long-Term Growth
By: Laura Alfaro, Hilary White and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
Over the past decade, Brazil's future as a leading world economic power appeared certain. An expanding middle class and commodity boom had fueled economic growth, with GDP growth hitting a peak of 7.5% in 2010. However, the high cost of conducting business in Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Capital Controls; Inflation; Exchange Rates; Stimulus; Competitiveness; Productivity Growth; Foreign Investment; Infrastructure; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Brazil
Alfaro, Laura, Hilary White, and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason. "Brazil's Enigma: Sustaining Long-Term Growth." Harvard Business School Case 713-040, October 2012. (Revised April 2017.)
- February 1991
- Case
Long-Term Competition and Product Variety
Brandenburger, Adam M., and Vijay Krishna. "Long-Term Competition and Product Variety." Harvard Business School Case 191-128, February 1991.
- October 1999 (Revised October 2004)
- Case
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (D)
By: Andre F. Perold
Supplements the (C) case. View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F. "Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (D)." Harvard Business School Case 200-010, October 1999. (Revised October 2004.)
- March 2003
- Article
Foreign Currency for Long-Term Investors
By: Luis M. Viceira, John Y. Campbell and Joshua S. White
Viceira, Luis M., John Y. Campbell, and Joshua S. White. "Foreign Currency for Long-Term Investors." Economic Journal 113, no. 486 (March 2003).
- August 2021
- Article
Rate-Amplifying Demand and the Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates
By: Samuel G. Hanson, David O. Lucca and Jonathan H. Wright
Long-term nominal interest rates are surprisingly sensitive to high-frequency (daily or monthly) movements in short-term rates. Since 2000, this high-frequency sensitivity has grown even stronger in U.S. data. By contrast, the association between low-frequency changes... View Details
Hanson, Samuel G., David O. Lucca, and Jonathan H. Wright. "Rate-Amplifying Demand and the Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates." Quarterly Journal of Economics 136, no. 3 (August 2021): 1719–1781.
- December 1992
- Article
Will Japan Remain a Long-Term Investor?
By: M. E. Porter and Rebecca E. Wayland
Porter, M. E., and Rebecca E. Wayland. "Will Japan Remain a Long-Term Investor?" Nikkei bijinesu [Nikkei Business] (December 1992).
- October 1985 (Revised September 1986)
- Background Note
Long-Term Debt Reporting, Rating, and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt
Hawkins, David F. "Long-Term Debt Reporting, Rating, and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 186-079, October 1985. (Revised September 1986.)
- 2005
- Working Paper
Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-005, August 2005. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 13119.)
- February 2003 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Susan Griffin: Formulation of a Long-Term Investment Strategy
By: Dwight B. Crane and Julia Stevens
Susan Griffin, owner and cofounder of a small manufacturing company, is formulating a long-term investment strategy. Griffin plans to sell her $10 million company and invest the revenue. She must decide how to allocate her investment so that she can rely entirely on... View Details
Crane, Dwight B., and Julia Stevens. "Susan Griffin: Formulation of a Long-Term Investment Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 203-072, February 2003. (Revised December 2005.)
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- May 1998
- Article
Assessing Long-Term Promotional Influences on Market Structure
By: Carl Mela, Sunil Gupta and Kamel Jedidi
Mela, Carl, Sunil Gupta, and Kamel Jedidi. "Assessing Long-Term Promotional Influences on Market Structure." Lead Article. International Journal of Research in Marketing 15, no. 2 (May 1998): 89–108. (Winner of International Journal of Research in Marketing. Best Paper Award.)
- Article
How Mission-Driven Companies Create Long-Term Shareholder Value
By: William W. George
George, William W. "How Mission-Driven Companies Create Long-Term Shareholder Value." Academy of Management Executive 15, no. 4 (November 2001).
- July–August 2024
- Article
Doing More with Less: Overcoming Ineffective Long-Term Targeting Using Short-Term Signals
By: Ta-Wei Huang and Eva Ascarza
Firms are increasingly interested in developing targeted interventions for customers with the best response,
which requires identifying differences in customer sensitivity, typically through the conditional average treatment
effect (CATE) estimation. In theory, to... View Details
Keywords: Long-run Targeting; Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Statistical Surrogacy; Customer Churn; Field Experiments; Consumer Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; AI and Machine Learning; Marketing Strategy
Huang, Ta-Wei, and Eva Ascarza. "Doing More with Less: Overcoming Ineffective Long-Term Targeting Using Short-Term Signals." Marketing Science 43, no. 4 (July–August 2024): 863–884.
- July 1987 (Revised October 2009)
- Background Note
A Method For Valuing High-Risk, Long-Term Investments: The "Venture Capital Method"
By: William A. Sahlman and Daniel R Scherlis
Describes a method for valuing high-risk, long-term investments such as those confronting venture capitalists. The method entails forecasting a future value (e.g., five years from the present) and discounting that terminal value back to the present by applying a high... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Risk Management; Valuation
Sahlman, William A., and Daniel R Scherlis. A Method For Valuing High-Risk, Long-Term Investments: The "Venture Capital Method". Harvard Business School Background Note 288-006, July 1987. (Revised October 2009.)
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
daily visual reminders of belonging, a common purpose, and shared values and ways of working together seem to create? Is it glue that simply cannot be replicated in hybrid work strategies? If so, does this have long-term significance for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett