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- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
magnitude of 3% to 7% lower than corresponding buy-and-hold fund returns. Using factor models of risk and the estimated dollar-weighted performance gap, we find that the real alpha of hedge fund investors is close to zero. In absolute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising View Details
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate of their favorite products: Whither the price and the quality?... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
that in real terms, a dollar invested in large company stocks in December 1925 was worth $24.79 by year-end 1979. Exactly twenty years later, that dollar was worth $303.09. Nevertheless, the fact that the... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
distraction: We fiddle around the edges thinking we're making a real difference (and getting accolades), while the planet inexorably warms. The reality is that even if one company eliminates its carbon... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
and the organizational structures which have emerged." His suggestion for companies going forward: Think twice about the strategies and assumptions that are driving your industry. Universities, venture capitalists, View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
being the real culprit. While social networks claim to be enabling great social causes, users are starting to understand they're being milked indirectly for money. There's a sense of betrayal, a feeling that "you didn't tell me what... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
developing Chinese real estate market and introduces issues concerning the search and property acquisition that are specific to Beijing. Also deals with the direct and indirect cost involved in home... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
two new lines of business to complement the two current lines of men's shoes and men's outdoor clothing: A new LOB of men's casual clothing. A new LOB focused on sporting goods: clothing, athletic shoes, and equipment. Achieve distribution synergies by sharing View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
difficulty to their struggle to grow and succeed. 3. The impact of intangible assets on economic transactions: I plan to study commercial transactions in which finances are not the sole currency of exchange, and intangibles like status and reputation of the actors in... View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
of her own goals. She could suggest to her boss, "Would it be better to have a high-profile male partner on this assignment?" because that would send a stronger signal to the company and public... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
In a perfect world, scientists share problems and work together on solutions for the good of society. In the real world, however, that's usually not the case. The main obstacles: competition for publication... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
economics and pop culture, particularly since the recent publication of popular books such as Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Even so,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
through the confusion to identify the next peak that the company should be moving toward? When they're not sure where they're going, how can they guide and inspire others? Grove, author most recently of Swimming Across (Warner Books,... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
can induce ethical behavior in their employees. For example, another series of experiments showed that moving the signature line from the end to the beginning of a self-reported form leads to an increase in truthfulness in the answers. A field experiment at an auto... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete,... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
"In the case of McDonald's, for example, their primary customer is not the consumers who eat their food, but real estate developers. People haven't always thought hard about this issue. The implication... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Strive For Honesty Alongside Low Risk In most of the companies we've studied, managers discussed innovation-related problems with the few people they trusted but acted on their findings in more public... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
The problems and challenges this creates, just from a business point of view. Lots of the organizational and institutional arrangements we have for doing business don't work very well if you start to graft them onto a context like biotech. They're a mismatch. View Details