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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

How Do Investors Value ESG?

By: Malcolm Baker, Mark Egan and Suproteem K. Sarkar
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives have risen to near the top of the agenda for corporate executives and boards, driven in large part by their perceptions of shareholder interest. We quantify the value that shareholders place on ESG using a revealed... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 2005
  • Other Unpublished Work

Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Financial Institutions; Equity; Corporate Finance
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  • August 2002 (Revised July 2003)
  • Case

LAE Enterprises Corp.

Jay Entrepreneur had to decide whether it was worth his time to plow through a 12-page term sheet for a Series A round of preferred stock prepared by HBS Investors, a well-established venture capital firm that did seed, early-round, and mezzanine financings. He could... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Contracts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • May 2007
  • Article

Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Investment; Policy; Corporate Finance
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  • March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

AMC: The Zero Revenue Case

By: C. Fritz Foley and Donal O'Cofaigh
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic put theatre company AMC’s already perilous financial situation under even further strain. The company’s high levels of debt resulted in a monthly cash-burn which left it facing an imminent Chapter-11 filing in the absence of... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Health Pandemics; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

that preferences for masculinity versus femininity mediated White participants' attraction to Blacks relative to Asians. Analysis of the 2000 United States Census replicated this pattern with interracial marriages. In Study 5, Blacks were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

earthquake damage. They can take action now to ensure that America invests in growing our domestic stock of world-class suppliers. A national campaign to enhance supply-chain partnerships could also accelerate job creation. America needs... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 31 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

eyeballs," says Zhu, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. "Content providers are serving advertisers rather than the audience, and consumers with niche preferences will be out of luck because the content they're... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • July 1998 (Revised August 1998)
  • Case

Optimark: Launching a Virtual Securities Market

Bill Lupien's OptiMark Technologies, Inc., plans to launch a super-computer system in September, 1998 that he believes will release previously withheld liquidity to the securities market. While today's market matches those trades based on price and size, Lupien's... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Financial Markets; Product Launch; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 28 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

challenge of serving customers with different preferences and behaviors when that model is stretched across multiple markets." As a starting point in their research, the authors focused on the organizational decision to franchise or not... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 18 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

consumers to lead you into recovery. But don't forget to stock up to take advantage of the pent-up demand that will be unleashed once other consumers get their confidence back. Don't assume a return to normal. The longer and deeper the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
  • December 2003
  • Case

Sale of Hephaestus, Inc. to Vulcan Ventures, Inc.

Henry Hephaestus founded Hephaestus, Inc. in 1895. Its first product was a tapered roller bearing for use with horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It reduced friction on the axle and reduced the force necessary to move a heavy load, thereby enabling one horse to do the... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry
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  • November 2019
  • Case

Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207091 China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-027 With its dual listings on the Hong Kong stock market and New York View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

while full integration into stock valuation and engagement are considered more beneficial, but they are all practiced with equal frequency. Current practices of different ESG styles, especially screening, are driven by product and ethical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

Harvard professor Theodore Levitt praised Japanese manufacturers for their focus on "what every consumer in the world is seeking: world-class modernity at affordable prices." Either because they didn't understand regional differences in consumer View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

show that empirical findings linking governance, incentives, and performance, which are typically observed in isolation, can instead be interpreted within a simple unified matching framework. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1561903 2006 pub Legislating View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

Industrial customers prefer to see products and services unbundled and priced separately. Gimmicks are out; reliability, durability, safety, and performance are in. New products, especially those that address the new consumer reality and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 21 Aug 2023
  • Book

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

there?’” Wallace realizes that this might be a seismic shift in perspective for people who prefer loyalty and stability, and who might feel unsettled by today’s workplace fluidity. But just as wise investors know how to ride out View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 26 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 26

influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism about risks for the self (Study 1), preferences for gambles versus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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