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- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
American voters want their government to reign in rising drug spending, according to recent polls. They spend twice as much a year per person on medications than the average Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member... View Details
- March 2001
- Case
Sime Darby Berhad (C): Responding to the Asian Crisis
By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Conglomerates; Economy; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Malaysia
Khanna, Tarun, and Danielle Melito Wu. "Sime Darby Berhad (C): Responding to the Asian Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 701-118, March 2001.
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
capable of countering the power of the executive and exercising better governance in companies even as large as Chrysler. Another phenomenon may provide a different kind of response to the challenge. Flush with more cash than good ideas,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
of his week are devoted to fundraising, "it never feels like enough." Education and Outreach Education is a central element in any museum's mission statement. How each museum chooses to fulfill its educational duty in terms of its local... View Details
- September 2019
- Case
Clean Energy for the Future
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Howaida Kamel
This is an industry note on renewable energy – wind, solar, governmental incentives and storage. It covers the recent history of both the wind and solar industries, an extensive look at governmental policies in the United States, including the Green New Deal, and... View Details
Keywords: Green New Deal; Renewable Energy; Energy Policy; Industry Growth; Supply and Industry; Price; Motivation and Incentives; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Howaida Kamel. "Clean Energy for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 720-003, September 2019.
- September 2011
- Article
Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas
By: Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim
Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in financial instrument fair values leads to higher cost of capital. We... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Assets; Cost of Capital; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Corporate Disclosure; Information; Risk and Uncertainty; Value; United States
Riedl, Edward J., and George Serafeim. "Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas." Journal of Accounting Research 49, no. 4 (September 2011): 1083–1122.
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
what it actuallytakes to build a business in a world that’s not always fair, predictable, or politically correct. Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs (Includes Valuation Models + Online Course) 3rd Edition by Joshua Rosenbaum (MBA 2001), and Joshua Pearl... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
and Al Gordon (MBA 1985), president and CEO of the Delectable Dining Group, as the board members. Kashyap opened the presentation, stating the team is recommending licensing the Aladdin operating system to government clients and... View Details
- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD DEC View Details
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
MaterialsChina: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition Harvard Business School Case 706-036 The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with strong View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using dangerously large volumes of runnable short-term liabilities. Specifically, we make the case that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
The Cluster Initiative Greenbook
By: Örjan Sölvell, Göran Lindqvist and Christian H.M. Ketels
After Michael Porter's seminal work on clusters and competitiveness published around 1990, cluster initiatives (CIs) have become a central feature of microeconomic policy around the world. CIs add a new dimension to traditional policy areas such as industrial... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Policy; Investment; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Developing Countries and Economies; Transition; Partners and Partnerships; Science
Sölvell, Örjan, Göran Lindqvist, and Christian H.M. Ketels. "The Cluster Initiative Greenbook." Ivory Tower AB, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2003. (Prepared for the 6th Annual Conference of The Competitiveness Institute (TCI), Gothenburg, Sweden, September 2003.)
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
different innovation policies can help to explain who finances radical innovations and when and where radical innovation occurs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52506 March 17, 2017 Science How Economics... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
health care, higher education, and housing — climbed steeply. To finance what they needed and wanted, growing numbers of households turned to various forms of credit. By 2001, almost three-quarters of all American families owned at least... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
launches developed specially for Africa. It also discusses government relations and the need to develop local production and raw material supply chains. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Positioning The Nation State
By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz
Having a clear, differentiated positioning gives a country an advantage in attracting investment, business and tourism, and in building markets for its exports. Countries like Greece, Spain and Chile are successfully repositioning themselves using coordinated marketing... View Details
Quelch, John A., and Katherine E. Jocz. "Positioning The Nation State." Place Branding 1, no. 3 (2005): 229–237.
- April 2011
- Article
Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy
By: Mihir Desai and Li Jin
This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Investors; Clienteles; Payout Policy; Private Equity; Investment; Taxation; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations
Desai, Mihir, and Li Jin. "Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 1 (April 2011): 68–84.
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'
By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-057. Patagonia’s change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order to use the company’s profit to fight the environmental crisis and be a model for future businesses. View Details
Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Innovation Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna