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  • November 2005 (Revised November 2007)
  • Case

Meisterchef.com

By: Henry B. Reiling
Two underperforming companies are seeking to combine on terms that will preserve the net operating loss of one for use against their combined future profits or at least against the future profits of the company that generated the losses. The questions are whether the... View Details
Keywords: Code Law; Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost Accounting; Taxation; Corporate Strategy; Profit; Crisis Management; Financial Management; Legal Services Industry; Service Industry; United States
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

globalization entails. All managers now face a business environment where international, macroeconomic, and political phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

environments," Sahlman says. "It is an integrative course in which managers can learn to use the financial perspective to inform resource acquisition and allocation decisions." Today the Entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

stay with the old technology as a rational, proactive choice rather than as a mark of managerial and organizational failure. We then consider the distinctive challenges and organizational dynamics that arise in technology retreats and their implications for the ways in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

they should be,” says Minor, who hopes to delve further into how to effectively shift beliefs in future research. TRUST IN THE WORKPLACE The unduly pessimistic predictions in the political survey sparked Minor’s curiosity about whether the same disconnect exists in... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

The research, based in France, was prompted by an ongoing regulatory debate within the European Union. "In Europe, there has been intense discussion about taxing high incomes in general, and bankers in specific," Vallée explains. In the aftermath of the 2008 View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 02 Dec 2018
  • News

A Chance to Thrive

Patricia Miller Zollar (MBA 1989) Attending HBS was a pivotal milestone in Patricia Miller Zollar’s life. “There is before HBS and there is after HBS,” says Zollar, a managing partner at Neuberger Berman, an asset View Details

    Reginald F. Lewis

    Just 10 years after founding his investment ventures firm, Lewis had established a $2.5 billion financing business, the largest firm owned by an African American in United States history. Through his purchase of Beatrice Food Company, he netted the largest offshore... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 01 May 2020
    • In Practice

    COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

    COVID-19 outbreak might change the way companies think about sustainability. Here’s what they said: Michael Toffel: Companies might prepare better for big disruptions   I hope that the pandemic will increase companies’ attention to View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 19 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 19, 2010

    oriented venture? Continue to operate and expand the company? Expand to other neighboring countries? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310041-PDF-ENG JP Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
    • Case

    Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners

    By: Malcolm P. Baker and Lauren Barley
    Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP), a San Francisco-based bank focusing on emerging growth companies, is considering its strategy in the context of regulatory, competitive, and legal changes. Blake Jorgensen, the chief operating officer and co-director of investment banking,... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Business or Company Management; Conflict of Interests; Change Management; Investment Banking; Financing and Loans; Laws and Statutes; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry; San Francisco
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    • September 2010
    • Supplement

    Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations (CW)

    By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
    This note presents a simple way to estimate time equations using regression analysis in Excel. The note quickly outlines regression analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and... View Details
    Keywords: History; Management Practices and Processes; Activity Based Costing and Management; Learning; Outcome or Result; Financial Statements; Experience and Expertise; Adoption; Communication Technology; Knowledge Acquisition; Management Skills
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    • March 2006
    • Supplement

    Geeli (CW)

    By: Kenneth A. Froot and Li Jin
    A well-performing Chinese manufacturer faces major impediments raising funding to grow. Highlights various imperfections that shape the financing decision. View Details
    Keywords: Capital Costs; Diversification; Cost of Capital; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; China
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    • January 1991 (Revised March 2010)
    • Case

    Westchester Distributing, Inc. (A)

    By: Robert L. Simons and Robert Boxwell
    Focuses on the three-way interaction among internal controls, employee behavior, and incentives. Salesmen are illegally providing kickbacks to customers of this beer-distribution firm. In turn, salesmen are reimbursing themselves by filing fraudulent expense reports.... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Salesforce Management; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 03 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

    research examined firms from January 2009 through June 2018—a period in which the number of companies that were included in the sample and covered by both data providers rose to almost 1,900 from about 340. In 2018 alone, $80 trillion in assets under View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 13 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 13

    foreign market share therefore increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Student-Profile

    Anastassia Fedyk

    Princeton, I took a slightly different approach, and spent a few years doing research and portfolio management at Goldman Sachs. I worked on statistical arbitrage strategies, news sentiment in credit markets, and regime-switching models,... View Details
    • 18 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

    professor who served as panel moderator, the money flow in venture capital may have been down 51 percent in 2001 compared to 2000, but the sum total was still greater than the previous eighteen or so years combined. Ed Kania, managing... View Details
    Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services
    • 10 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 10, 2015

    forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns By: Baker, Malcolm, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Questions for James Austin

    In an email interview, Harvard Business School professor James Austin spoke with HBS Working Knowledge managing editor Carla Tishler about his work on collaboration and his ongoing research.Tishler: You talk about companies transitioning... View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler