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  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.  We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

market. We provide a framework to understand the dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. We find evidence that bundles have a significant negative synergy effect and that consumer valuations for component products are positively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

"money management" and the "investment systems platform" businesses. Students analyze why BlackRock decided to unbundle its Aladdin investment platform and if the firm should consider expanding the platform in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy. The strategy map reveals the strategic chain of cause-and-effect relationships that eventually links investment in employee skills to improved financial performance. As the senior executive of a major bank declared: Partnering... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

SchmidtHarvard Business School Case 612-082 Merck is known for its commitment to investing in basic R&D. Are Merck's long-term investments justifiable when the firm faces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

takeover: In a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors between 1993 and 2006, we find that announcement returns and long-term abnormal returns are high for the subset of targets that are acquired ex-post, but not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

Additional information and data gathered from the event is expected to be distributed later this year. "We need a vision that says transportation and infrastructure (are) important, so important that a lot of people have to come to the table and decide which... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

seven Cs. Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises As demonstrated after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese businesses have a unique capability for long-term survival. Hirotaka Takeuchi explains their strategy of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

investing the time or recruiting people to improve those processes.” The researchers conducted the survey over nine months between October 2015 and June 2016, in partnership with the membership organization WomenCorporateDirectors... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

entrepreneurs who also were starting from scratch—those for whom social ventures were still in the very early phases. They identified an ideal data pool through a partnership with Echoing Green, a socially focused investment organization... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

responsible for sustainability, and top executive incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability metrics. Moreover, they are more likely to have organized procedures for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

at Crucell since 2009. In September 2009, Johnson & Johnson acquired 18% of Crucell for $400 million. This investment was part of a business development deal. Subsequently, in 2012, Johnson & Johnson acquired Crucell for $2.8... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

Statement. In April 2010, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave his final approval. The Federal Aviation Administration added its approval in May. As the United States attempts to cope with long-term damage on the Gulf Coast from the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Australia. The country's national government has recently instituted changes to its foreign direct investment (FDI) policies that could affect Tavistock's goals for its long-term View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union invested to be managed for the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers and other mobile carriers had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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