Public Market Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

World Company has achieved a gross-margin return on inventory investments of more than 300%—a substantially higher return than any other retailer we are aware of. Dallas-based CompUSA, which sells computers and associated merchandise, has... View Details

Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

decentralized structure, IBM continued to expand further, acquiring ten new plants in a span of 6 years and increasing foreign investment. Watson also continued to invest heavily in research and development, and IBM came to control 80... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

04 Jan 2016
News

Taking Time Out for a Challenge

hit the small African nation in 2014. “Having watched Sierra Leone and its neighbors make great strides over the last decade to consolidate peace, grow their economies, and invest in public services, I knew... View Details

Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

product of the GPP’s Substance Abuse Research Alliance (SARA), an affiliate group of 150 researchers, public officials, and practitioners all working to turn the rising tide of deaths from opioid overdose. Langford, here for the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Sep 2024
News

The Road Less Traveled

Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

societal progress by creating jobs, investing in communities, and bringing the world much-needed products and services. "In an era of budget austerity and political gridlock, business is called on to play a larger role in providing social... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

you raise a lot of capital from public equity markets for biotech companies, there is a mismatch of the governance structure. The assets of a biotech company early in its life are just R&D projects.... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

investing more time and marketing budget on managing the quantity, quality, and location of online reviews, with particular attention paid to TripAdvisor. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

career advice and placement for our students. Our core Real Property survey course is in the fall of the second year. We also have two new winter courses on Emerging Real Estate Markets and Design, Development and Construction. In... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

was spurred by high profits. Typical cable systems outside the top 100 markets earned rates of return on net investment (before taxes and interest expense) over 40 percent. 9 Wired Cities: 1970-1975 (10)... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details

23 Jan 2017
News

The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee

offices. Burwick managed all of this, the article notes, while guiding the company through a transition from public entity to private ownership. Before joining Peet’s, Burwick worked at PepsiCo and as president of Weight Watchers North... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)

Above: Zhang and the popular “Tao Doll” figurines that represent Alibaba’s e-commerce platform. (photo by Christina Gandolfo) I joined Alibaba in 2008 as part of its strategic investments team. I never thought that one day we would have... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

highest-ranking woman in the AOL Time Warner organization — oversees more than 130 popular magazines, including the company’s high-circulation weeklies Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly, along with well-known View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Web

Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising

The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “The province of the advertising novelty is to present to the customer . . . something of a tangible or more or less permanent value.” Fowler’s View Details

February 2011 (Revised September 2016)
Case

Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Nori Gerardo Lietz

In January 2007, Hazem Ben-Gacem, managing director and co-head of Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), needs to decide what to bid at an auction for Moneybookers Limited, one of the top three e-payment solution providers in Europe. However, approximately 70% of... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Private Equity; Investment; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Europe; United States

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14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

impossible feat, claimed by a growing number of companies, is achieved by calculating the greenhouse-gas emissions of the organization's operations, investing in energy efficiency and other methods to reduce those emissions, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

January 2013 (Revised March 2016)
Case

The Private Company Council

By: Karthik Ramanna and Luis M. Viceira

Financial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body—the Private Company Council—to determine separate GAAP for private companies. PCC advocates—including the US Chamber of Commerce—argue that... View Details