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  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

Examiner shares are highest for non-US applicants and in electronics, communications, and computer-related fields. However, most of the variation is explained by firm-specific variables, with the largest patent applicants having high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

market often lacks one or more core infrastructure elements, such as a supply of trained business professionals, liquid stock exchanges, predictable contract enforcement, or quality service providers for auxiliary needs like printing and... View Details
  • May 2024 (Revised September 2024)
  • Case

Hakluyt: From Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene
Established in 1995 by a group of ex-British intelligence officers, Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt) was a corporate advisory firm that generated insights by leveraging a unique blend of internal expertise and a global network of well-connected individuals. Since 2019, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Equity; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Management Succession; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Transformation; Consulting Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London
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  • 16 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

questions. The calls are high stakes — a top executive with a murky message can cause share demand to dry up, or worse, a drop in the stock price, faster than you can say, "Outlook is uncertain."... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2024
  • Supplement

Hakluyt: from Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors (B)

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene
This case is a continuation of an earlier study chronicling Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt)’s transformation from an obscure boutique to a global corporate advisory firm with an outsized reputation. In August 2024, the firm faced a pivotal moment as managing partner Varun... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Corporate Finance; Equity; Stock Shares; Corporate Governance; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Growth Management; Management Succession; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Consulting Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London
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  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

no legal duty to protect or serve the companies whose shares they own; they are shielded by the doctrine of limited liability from legal responsibility for those companies’ debts and misdeeds; they may buy and sell View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

model, clientele, client perception, and overall market share must be more than thorough." It may be small consolation to those dot.com entrepreneurs struggling to keep their heads above water, but there appears to be a sense that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

http://hbr.org/2012/03/does-america-really-need-manufacturing/ar/1 Choosing the United States Authors:Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract The U.S. is not winning its appropriate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

our sample period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via non-pecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem. The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently and very efficiently. For instance, while the transfer of a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

invested in technology stocks, relative to their style benchmarks, than their older colleagues. Furthermore, young managers, but not old managers, exhibit trend-chasing behavior in their technology stock investments. As a result, young... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the CEOs of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also served as a director of a telecommunications firm... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did Hong Kong deny Alibaba's requests to list dual-class shares or to allow its partners to nominate a majority of the board of directors and, in the process,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

“inclusive capitalism”? Bower and Paine: In the book we mention terms like inclusive capitalism, but we don’t yet have a label for the more resilient form of capitalism that we have in mind. Certainly it needs to be inclusive in the sense of producing prosperity that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2197876 Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from five data sources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

you think? Share your insights in the comments below. References:Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (New York: Delacorte Press, 2013). Jennifer Maloney and Lauren Weber, "Coke’s Elusive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

not had lower costs of equity (lower stock returns), consistent with a stock market anomaly previously documented in other samples. A calibration suggests that a binding 10 percentage point increase in Tier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Herlihy (MBA 1981) (Gerard A. Herlihy) A satire about another out-of-control commodity and stock market boom. Blowing Smoke: Essays on Energy and Climate by Rud Istvan (MBA 1974) (Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.) From the... View Details