Publications

A talented engineer, Stanley spearheaded numerous technological innovations in the production and refining of metals at International Nickel (Inco) and continued to grow the company through expansion, taking advantage of low asset View Details

Keywords: Metals

Web

Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit - whether through an initial... View Details

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

read in Washington since it was submitted to Congress in January by a Congressional Oversight Panel. Congress created the five-member panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

28 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Real Estate

The crisis may have started with residential real estate but it is also affecting commercial real estate. Asset prices have fallen and are expect to decline further; there are likely to be massive defaults;... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson; Construction; Real Estate

March 2007 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Burt's Bees: Leaving the Hive

Rapid growth is pushing Burt's Bees' natural personal care products into mass distribution channels, with products and brand elements that are less quirky, more commercial than they used to be. Indeed, CEO John Replogle believes that by focusing on efficacious,... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Consumer Behavior; Asset Pricing; Entrepreneurship; Distribution Channels; Product Development; Brands and Branding; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

research by Harvard Business School Professors Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson begs to differ. Financial crises, even ones as calamitous as the 2007-2008 banking meltdown, are surprisingly predictable to those who know the warning signs. “Three years of rapid... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

emergency room. This solution can’t afford to fail. However, owners of high-value assets in lower-risk areas probably should consider investing in less expensive interventions that help them live with water in the event of inundation; the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

barring radical changes, stores with long-term leases are largely at the mercy of the deteriorations in same-store sales and gross margin caused by eCommerce. As brick-and-mortar sales per store decline, fixed assets become less... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

February 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Supplement

Multifactor Models (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Cost of Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation

September 2006
Case

Stedman Place: Buy or Rent?

By: Andre F. Perold and David S. Scharfstein

A couple has to decide whether to continue renting a townhouse or buy the one next door. Allows for a discussion of net present value, internal rate of return, and the costs and benefits of homeownership. View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Asset Pricing; Investment Return; Housing; Family Ownership; Renting or Rental; Valuation

01 Aug 2001
News

T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

who began using that dictum thirty years ago as one of his fundamental principles at Sealed Air Corporation. Dunphy turned the fledgling New Jersey-based company that initially made Bubble Wrap into the world's largest producer of... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

asset that it was willing to buy, and then the banks that held that class of asset would bid the price down in an effort to sell their toxic View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

July 1991 (Revised August 2000)
Case

California PERS (A)

By: Jay O. Light, Jay W. Lorsch and James O. Sailer

Examines California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the world's fourth largest pension fund. Dale Hanson, CEO of CalPERS, has a problem; how does he use CalPERS' influence as the holder of a small percentage of 1,300 American companies to put pressure on... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Retirement; System; Asset Pricing; Performance Improvement; Corporate Governance; Investment Funds; Investment Return; California

June 2005
Article

Currency Returns, Intrinsic Value, and Institutional Investor Flows

By: K. A. Froot and T. Ramadorai

Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; Purchasing Power Parity; Real Exchange Rate; Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Asset Pricing; Financial Services Industry