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  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

strongly negatively correlated with the value factor. The evidence suggests that public sentiment influences investor views about the value of corporate sustainability activities and thereby both the price paid for corporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Program

Mergers and Acquisitions

your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend This mergers and acquisitions course is designed for senior executives involved in M&A activity who want to broaden their knowledge of financial business valuation methods,... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

earthquake damage. They can take action now to ensure that America invests in growing our domestic stock of world-class suppliers. A national campaign to enhance supply-chain partnerships could also accelerate job creation. America needs... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Web

Hiring Organizations

Dhabi Investment Council Accion Venture Labs Accompany Health Acontor Innovations Private Limited Actis Active Surfaces AdaptHealth Adenia Partners Adept - adept.ai Admaius Capital Partners Adobe Advent... View Details
  • Program

Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

responsible for small funds Entrepreneurs who are seeking private financing Families and institutions in the process of raising their first fund or considering private equity investing Angel investors who are looking to formalize their... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure of innovation and the shift from independent invention to R&D View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Sifan Zhou, Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and PhD Candidate, SUNY Albany

  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52688 2017 Geography, Location, and Strategy. Multinational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2016
  • Article

Industry Window Dressing

By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou
We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers undertake actions—in the form of sales management—to take advantage of these shortcuts. Specifically, we exploit a regulatory provision wherein a firm’s primary... View Details
Keywords: Investor Shortcuts; Industry Classification; Opportunistic Managerial Behavior; Discontinuity; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Sales
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  • March 2009
  • Article

Trading Restrictions and Stock Prices

By: Robin Greenwood
Firms can manipulate their stock price by limiting the ability of their investors to sell. I examine a series of corporate events in Japan in which firms actively reduced their float—the fraction of shares available to trade—for periods of one to three months, locking... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Stock Shares; Investment; Investment Return; Price; Market Transactions; Japan
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  • March 2004
  • Case

L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth

By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and James Weber
In mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Cost Management; Sales; Performance Improvement; Diversification; Distribution Channels; Resignation and Termination; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 2008
  • Book

On Competition

By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
    • January 2008 (Revised July 2008)
    • Case

    Opportunity Partners

    By: Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
    Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing hedge fund and prominent activist investor, has taken a position in a Mexico-based closed-end fund. Following a hard-fought proxy contest in which he advocated for management to eliminate the fund's substantial discount,... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Financial Services Industry; Mexico
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    Aligning Strategy and Sales

    strategic asset, this sales channel strategy program will help you enable essential company-wide alignment. By aligning strategy and sales, you will explore new ways to help sales professionals meet their numbers, how to improve your company's return on View Details
    • 30 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30

    by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities-San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on the success rate of venture capital-backed investments in an... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 29 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 29, 2006

      Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Feb 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 26

    that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these results to show how optimal budget... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 14, 2010

    There is an overall expansion of industrial activity after reform, and highly disaggregated trade data indicate higher exports of new goods. These results suggest that the expansion of multinational activity... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Program

    Disruptive Innovation

    works and determine when to invest in core versus disruptive business models. As you gain insight into the ways that evolving industries, technologies, and competitive forces can affect your business, you will be better prepared to... View Details