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  • 01 Dec 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

Summing Up What Will it Take to Save the Managed Mutual Fund? In this month's column, I purposely took what I assumed was an extreme position in asking if this was the twilight era for the managed mutual fund. The responses the column... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

After a brief interview with the city’s Chief Innovation Officer and HBS/HKS joint degree alumnus, Shireen Santosham, “I knew she would be able to use someone with an MBA skill set.” “We have a tremendous amount of work and responsibility... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

what happens when people make decisions based on their confidence about how strongly to volunteer their own opinion in group decisions. Organizations thrive or fail based on the strategic decisions that stream from top leaders. Should the... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • March 2006
  • Case

Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds

By: Malcolm P. Baker and Elizabeth Kind
Howard Atkins, the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, is considering issuing $3 billion in convertible debt. With an investment-grade credit rating, Wells Fargo is not the typical issuer of convertible securities, but the market conditions in 2003 are unusual.... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Strategy; Banking Industry
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  • September 2012
  • Teaching Note

Vodafone Japan (A), (B) and (C) (TN)

By: Juan Alcacer
The series of three cases is used in Harvard Business School's (HBS) elective course "Competing Globally" as the second case in the first module (Why?: Strategies to create value globally) (See "Competing Globally: Course Note for Instructors", HBS 713-422). The module... View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications; Technological Innovation; Technology Strategy; Operations Strategy; Information Technology; Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Japan
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    Sara L. Fleiss

    Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund.  Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities portfolio at Harvard Management Company (HMC). At HMC, Sara... View Details

    • 08 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

    Efforts to restrict women’s sexual behavior date back centuries in virtually every region of the world. Now, the end of Roe v. Wade in the United States has returned such limitations on women View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 14 Dec 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

    community center. Such projects are good for team building and may augment limited community budgets, even build new relationships, but they don't change the education system or strengthen economic prospects for community residents. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • August 2001 (Revised April 2002)
    • Case

    Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)

    By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
    Strategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently sold approximately 20% of its Internet auction subsidiary, Ubid, to the public at $15 per share. Ubid's stock... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Subsidiaries; Internet and the Web; Investment Funds; Price; Performance Efficiency; Capital Markets; Auctions; Investment Return; Equity; Planning; Financial Services Industry
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    • 02 Apr 2024
    • Blog Post

    IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores

    traditional counterparts (typically a ~20% premium). However, with advancements in production technologies, the cost gap is steadily narrowing. Additionally, their availability might be limited in certain regions, but as demand grows,... View Details
    • 16 Nov 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

    it imposes limitations and stifles innovation, as I argue in my new book Think Outside the Building. In companies, turf wars between departments and divisions hinder organizational performance. Silo-busting often consists of moving people... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • September 1986 (Revised July 2001)
    • Case

    Eastern Electric Apparatus Repair Company (A)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Harry Gruner
    As principals engaged in structuring leveraged buyouts for a well-capitalized risk arbitrage firm, Bob Meehan and George Schwartz are preparing to bid for the business and assets of a Westinghouse subsidiary. The case focuses on the value of the opportunity, methods of... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Bids and Bidding; Opportunities; Business Subsidiaries; Strategy; Valuation; Equity; Electronics Industry
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      Erik Stafford

      Erik Stafford joined the faculty at HBS in July 1999, where he has taught finance in the required and elective curricula of the MBA Program and in the CFA Investment Management Workshop.

      Erik's research efforts focus on investment management, capital... View Details

      Keywords: financial services
      • 04 Apr 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

      and seeing what sort of results and ads he’d get back. He wasn’t happy with what he saw . Some of the ads were completely unrelated to the search . In a normal company, the CEO, seeing a bad product, would call the person in charge of the... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 27 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

      Companies struggling with diversity, equity, and inclusion might be tempted to hide their workforce data. Why shine a light on a company’s limited progress—or worse, risk a public-relations headache? It... View Details
      Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
      • 01 Feb 2022
      • News

      Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

      • June 1992 (Revised June 1995)
      • Case

      RJR Nabisco Holdings Capital Corp.--1991

      By: Peter Tufano
      An investment manager notices a large apparent discrepancy in the prices of two nearly-identical bonds issued in conjunction with a major leveraged buyout. The manager must figure out whether the instruments are mispriced relative to one another, and if so, how to... View Details
      Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Instruments
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      • 07 Apr 2022
      • News

      HBS Announces New Robert K. Kraft Family Fellowship Fund

      • August 2021
      • Article

      Rate-Amplifying Demand and the Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates

      By: Samuel G. Hanson, David O. Lucca and Jonathan H. Wright
      Long-term nominal interest rates are surprisingly sensitive to high-frequency (daily or monthly) movements in short-term rates. Since 2000, this high-frequency sensitivity has grown even stronger in U.S. data. By contrast, the association between low-frequency changes... View Details
      Keywords: Conundrum; Investor Demand; Monetary Policy Transmission; Interest Rates
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      • Web

      IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

      Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details