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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
efficiency also had more conventional paths to market based on licensing deals to large seed companies. Alternatively, Arcadia could acquire a seed company and develop and market its seed directly. A different near-term growth area... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
homegrown companies. But all that is changing as firms shape and adapt to global markets. Says HBS professor Mihir A. Desai, "The defining characteristics of what makes a firm belong to a country—where it is incorporated, where it is listed, the nationality of its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
the government—the religious groups that do not work, but whom the government subsidizes. The nation has no large industry of rental housing, nor does it have the rental-constituencies of the United States: the people living in, profiting... View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
was soon eclipsed by Korean companies using technology to leapfrog to the front of the pack, said Fujii. Panelists noted that countries in the region are doing a large amount of business with each other, helping the region grow more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales By: Barbon, Andrea, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, and Augustin Landier Abstract—Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in spreading order flow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
the effects of ethnic ties on the aggregate volume of trade or the effects of ethnic ties on foreign direct investment (FDI) at the country level. In this paper, we add to the large and important collection of literature on the subject by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
forecast characteristic-related stock returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. Our approach is useful for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
solicitation of interest from sovereign wealth funds alongside traditional buyers. IPOs require a leap of faith from investors who have to bet on a new company. The new GM wants to be just that, a corporation intent on presenting itself... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. Using a large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
relationship: the best customer. Ironically, we find that firing the customer is often a case of blaming the victim: managers remain largely unaware of their own roles in creating the unprofitable customers they seek to shed. We reveal... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
who originally challenged Chu to apply his experience to these issues, stepped up as an angel investor for Project Antares, named after the brightest star in the night sky. One of the challenges of the project, says Chu, will come in... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk—a forecast of limited future funding—by modifying their focus to finance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
of cards that is being held up largely by a Communist regime and foreign investors who are for the most part silent about the results of their Chinese investments. Where does the truth lie—at the extremes or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
America) relocate for economic opportunity and for lifestyle choices. At the same time, there is a growing body of evidence that South Florida housing prices are not rising as fast—and in some cases even falling—in areas with exposure to storm surge flooding. Another... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
asset class. In recent years, a growing number of individual and institutional investors have allocated a portion of their capital into agricultural farmland. Private investors, public companies, and sovereign wealth funds are now all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806201 Vignette: Bombay Tyre Manufacturing Ltd Harvard Business School Case 806-207 Presents a U.S.-based investor who had taken a minority position in a publicly owned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel