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  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We test our hypotheses in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Yuan Zou Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management) Robert Simons Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

capitalist Shibusawa Eiichi in a global historical perspective. The chapter reviews the similarities and differences over time and between countries of proponents of corporate responsibility, including Andrew Carnegie and Robert Anderson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2019
  • Case

Hapag-Lloyd AG:Complying with IMO 2020

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
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  • January 1985
  • Case

Business Research Corp. (A)

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of a decision confronting an entrepreneur: which of two investment proposals should he accept to fund the creation and marketing of a database that comprises the full text of research reports produced by Wall Street investment banking firms? The... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Valuation; Investment Banking; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Service Industry
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  • January 2006 (Revised February 2006)
  • Case

Deutsche Borse and the European Markets

By: Dwight B. Crane and Monika Stachowiak
In December 2004, Deutsche Borse proposed an offer for the London Stock Exchange. Some shareholders opposed the acquisition, leading to the offer's withdrawal and replacement of management, including the CEO and board members. Written from the viewpoint of Deutsche... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Capital Structure; Stocks; Valuation; Corporate Governance; Price; Change Management; Commercialization; Financial Services Industry; Europe
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  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

resource pools, increased corporate operational dependence on IT, and enhanced application opportunities have combined to drive this topic much higher on many companies' agendas. Different companies are impacted in different ways.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2003
  • Case

Procter & Gamble 2000 (B)

By: William A. Sahlman and Ryland Matthew Willis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Launch; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry
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  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

the focal ESG issue, even though such proposals nearly never received majority support. Improvements occur across both material and immaterial issues. Proposals on immaterial issues are associated with subsequent declines in firm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53646 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review The New CEO Activists By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Though corporations have been lobbying the government and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2018
  • Case

Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Venture Capital; Investment Strategy; Investment; Strategy; Ownership; Valuation; Energy Conservation; Equity; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Efficiency; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Street Singer

your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and consumer industry as well. “I work... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

& Private Equity: A Casebook, 5th edition provides an understanding of the ways in which private equity groups work. The casebook builds an understanding of the key distinctions in the industry and reviews and applies key ideas of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

as reflected in price to book valuation multiples, whereas the adoption of common sustainability practices is reliably correlated only with expectations of future performance. Overall, we provide evidence about the role of sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

badly. Other apparent areas of interest in the last 12 months included corporate social responsibility, marketing techniques, and, of course, the ubiquitous Lady Gaga. Here are the Top 10 most-read articles and 10 most-read working papers... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

some responsibility for that. Most of them are neither studying nor teaching emerging best practices in asset valuation and risk management. They need to begin exploring the interior of leading-edge companies to provide detailed,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

unconditional bonuses. The results have implications for companies trying to use bonuses to more effectively manage their salespeople. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53260 forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reply: Do Powerful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54598 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

of how the topics of nonfinancial information, sustainable development, corporate disclosure, and integrated reporting, among others, overlap. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411049-PDF-ENG Belco Global Foods C.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates for improved corporate governance at public companies, focusing on the problems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace