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- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217045-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-025 Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium (Abridged) No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Cup Series, we model the probability that a driver crashes his car in a race. Our findings are that drivers crash their vehicles with greater frequency when their positions are increasingly at risk of displacement by their nearby, lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
how companies create value for customers and shareholders. The BSC measures the customer value proposition, and links critical processes and intangible assets to customer and shareholder value creation. Thus, ABC provides a model of cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
of the largest shareholders in both VW and Porsche, who sits in both supervisory boards. Location In A Globalized World As Fear and Knoop looked more closely into the Leipzig decision, they realized that the Leipzig plant only employs... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
Russian conglomerate that has become the third largest shareholder in SUN Interbrew, has announced its intention to take part in the company's management and attain a leading position in the Russian beer market. Is there a role for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
observed corporate accountability reports can be used to determine whether and how those reports create or destroy value for shareholders and other constituencies. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1934322 When Supply-Chain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
plans-epitomized by the ubiquitous 401(k)-which transfer the investment risk from the company to the employee. With that transfer has come a dangerous shift in investment focus, argues Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton. Traditional pension... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
information and instead message to shareholders and analysts something of opposite sign. The data suggest they may be motivated in part by subsequent personal stock-trading opportunities. Publisher's link:... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
the nature of the organization's business and how the organization intends to succeed and outperform competitors. It articulates the critical elements for a company's growth strategy 5: Objectives for growth in shareholder value Targeted... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
SesiaHarvard Business School Supplement 110-050 The (B) case describes shareholder and investor reactions to the 2008 compensation awarded Aubrey McClendon, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy, which according to Fortune Magazine made... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
The firm has also innovated in sourcing capital from a variety of limited partners. Blackstone's culture of centralized investment processes and risk management coupled with entrepreneurial leadership contributed to its growth in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
controversial IPO in 2007, raising $458 million. Many, including Nobel Peace Prize–winner Muhammad Yunus, have accused CB of making a profit at the expense of the poor, passing most of the earnings on to shareholders rather than lowering... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
create value for shareholders and society alike. That worked in many cases. But some executives who were loaded up with stock options succumbed to the temptation to “game” a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
That’s when the courage to take risks came out—because I was so excited about what I was doing.” —JH Ganesh Natarajan Unleashing Employee Potential “It’s not really a textbook leadership style,” Natarajan concedes, but treating employees... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Games, and can earn enough revenue to cover large ongoing costs, their owners—local governments and taxpayers—must pay off the deficits. Summer Olympics stadiums, normally built to seat over 70,000 people, are particularly at risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
doubled to approximately $275 billion annually. But the Golden Age of Philanthropy, as some began to call it, risked spending much of that money unproductively. Of the nation’s more than 1.2 million nonprofits, most operated on shoestring... View Details