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Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership Transitions 2008 Bankruptcy... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

balances, mobility, and social networks as well as borrowers’ self-reported income and employment. We further show that this positive impact is more pronounced when borrowers have limited access to credit, take loans for business... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics

  • 07 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen & Breno Schmidt; Financial Services
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names. The changes appear non-random across brokerage firms, analysts, and tickers, and have a significant impact on the overall distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

How Wicked Problems Drive Business Performance: A Review of the Academic Literature

By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti
Recent years have seen a rise in the number of businesses engaged in the pursuit of “purposeful” activities – that is, activities that engage with the broader community in ways that expand beyond the pursuit of shareholder value. Many of these activities involve... View Details
Keywords: Wicked Problems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Performance
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  • September 2002 (Revised March 2003)
  • Technical Note

Technical Note on Equity-Linked Consideration, Part 3: Cash-and-Stock Deals

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The consideration paid by an acquiring company to a target can be a combination of cash and stock. During the 1980s and 1990s, for example, approximately 12% to 13% of all deals between public companies involved both cash and stock. This case series describes the basic... View Details
Keywords: Price; Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Podcast - Business & Environment

Climate Resilience and Poverty Alleviation: Acumen Founder & CEO Jacqueline Novogratz 16 JUL 2025 | Climate Rising In this Climate Rising episode in our series on climate resilience, Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen shares how View Details
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

descriptions and more high-quality photos, the authors discovered. After controlling for better photos and captions, researchers found virtual tours had an “insignificant” impact on final prices. That’s in contrast to a roughly 1.1... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

Waves in Ship Prices and Investment By: Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract—We study the returns to owning dry bulk cargo ships. Ship earnings exhibit a high degree of mean reversion, driven by industry participants' competitive... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

advantage of an exogenous shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

  PublicationsPricing to Create Shared Value Authors:Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much value as possible from every... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Efficiency in Science By: Fabio Bertolotti, Kyle R. Myers and Wei Yang Tham 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research We develop a method to estimate producers’ productivity beliefs in settings where output quantities and input prices are... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

while net volume is low, then market participants either agree with each other (they are “homogeneous”), or they are not sensitive to price changes (they are “inelastic”), resulting in large price View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

sustainability disclosure, and alternative ways of measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental or social impact leads a firm to... View Details
  • October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
  • Case

Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere

By: Mihir A. Desai, Frank Williamson, Mark Veblen and Yuming Zou
Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. has made an initial bid to acquire a primary competitor, Paul Revere, from conglomerate, Textron. The due diligence process uncovers a significant block of problematic disability insurance policies. Provident is forced to assess... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Financial Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Business Strategy; Cash Flow; Price; Bids and Bidding; Financial Reporting; Business Conglomerates; Insurance Industry; Service Industry
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  • 1993
  • Working Paper

Currency Hedging Over Long Horizons

By: K. A. Froot
This paper reexamines the widely-held wisdom that the currency exposure of international investments should be entirely hedged. It finds that the previously documented ability of hedges to reduce portfolio return variance holds at short horizons, but not at long... View Details
Keywords: Currency; Hedging; Transaction Costs; Exchange Rates; International Markets; Real Exchange Rate; Purchasing Power Parity; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries
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  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

price of oils and fats in the decade and by plowing back profits rather than remitting great dividends. By 1929 Unilever had received $12.2 million from its U.S. business since the time of its start, but thereafter the company reaped... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

and launched the fund in early 2003. While the firm performed well during 2003 and 2004 (both in terms of returns and new assets), in 2005 the results began to suffer. Describes the process of designing the firm, the resulting team dynamics, the strains on the staff... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

be aware of the range of powerful, dynamic, and often conflicting forces shaping the emerging competitive environment. The globalization of markets, the increasing homogeneity of customer needs worldwide, the impact of the digital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne