Investment Evaluation - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

opportunity for the investment pendulum to swing from fast-money ventures to slower, potentially more rewarding endeavors. “If you are willing dive into the frontier of scientific journal articles, the rewards of science-based innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

not see their role ‘as an enabler of direct public participation in decision-making through formats such as deliberative meetings, and do not believe there are personal benefits for investing in these activities.’ And yet if society is to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

the value of corporate sustainability activities ” Although researchers have studied returns around socially responsible investing and around corporate ESG performance, there has been little attention paid to how public sentiment momentum... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

deliver, and evaluate Sullivan's sales calls on two important retail buyers, Sam Cartwright of Mothercare and Anthony Pierce of John Lewis. The main case provides relevant background information about Faraway's market opportunity,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

February 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Supplement

Multifactor Models (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Cost of Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation

Citation

Purchase

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

whether the e-commerce initiative is achieving its stated objectives (outputs) and thus contributing to the long-term success of the corporation (outcomes). Companies often waste resources on e-commerce initiatives or do not invest when... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

17 May 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

beliefs (confirmation bias), to give ourselves too much credit or not enough blame (self-serving bias), or to place more value on losing $100 than making $100 (loss aversion). In business, a bias-clouded decision can have disastrous consequences, so researchers at... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

When trying to alleviate companies in need, the government should not simply look at sharply lower levels of investments, but evaluate their financial needs using the ‘Groucho Marx’ criterion: companies that are eating up their future and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2010
Other Unpublished Work

Share Issuance and Factor Timing

By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson

We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry. Specifically, we use differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Equity; Stocks; Stock Shares; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Price; Performance Evaluation

Citation

SSRN

03 Nov 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

not only a company's numbers but also the systems that produce the numbers. Finally, public accountants will have to evaluate the work of the boards' audit committees that hired them. The bill for the additional external auditors and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

June 1997 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions

By: Robert L. Simons and Ramsey Walker

Ramsey Walker, a second-year MBA student, must decide how to control a family business as an absentee owner. After providing background details on the publishing industry, the case requires the reader to: 1) make a product segmentation decision; 2) prepare a profit... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Family and Family Relationships; Market Design; Management Systems; Planning; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Segmentation; Corporate Strategy; Investment Return; Publishing Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

breakthrough ideas and entrepreneurs is a tough task for venture capitalists, he says. In his classes, Lassiter teaches the case of Highland Capital: the venture firm evaluated some 400 clean-tech start-ups—and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

because of the challenges associated with measuring effectiveness. Notably, these obstacles are not limited to evaluation by external parties, as firm managers also struggle to assess the returns associated with View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

facilitating face-to-face interactions can provide information that impacts the formation of scientific collaborations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-023.pdf Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne