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- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
Bloomingdale's, McDonald's, and Macy's—and that it will work at about 220,000 merchant locations across the United States that have enabled contactless payments. But some analysts believe that's a small number compared with the nine... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Course MaterialsAirbus A380—Turbulence Ahead Harvard Business School Case 609-041 Multiple delays of the Airbus A380 have shocked analysts and investors alike. What are the causes of these delays and how should investors respond to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers with the highest overlap in analyst coverage, in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation multiples, (c) growth rates, (d)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
in the diabetic space, became MannKind’s marketing partner and helped launch Afrezza in February, 2015. Although the drug had a black box warning and required doctors to perform a lung test on patients, expectations were high, with some View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
policymakers from developed countries have tended to dominate these debates. That may be changing in several interesting ways. Many policymakers in the developing world, as well as officials in the IMF and analysts at the rating agencies,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
to justify its $2.1 billion valuation, given that Diageo had acquired Mey Icki in 2011 from TPG for three times TPG's purchase price in 2006. Investors as well as analysts were questioning the over seven times value increase in Mey Icki... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Large banks—including Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase—were among the former creditors. In October 2005, Eddie Bauer stock was selling for $24 per share. Analysts were projecting target prices ranging from $22 to $35 per share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
the return predictability. In addition, we find that sell-side analysts are subject to these same information processing constraints, as their forecast revisions of easy-to-analyze firms predict their future revisions of more complicated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
predictions. Specifically, abnormal returns to two proxies for private information (insider purchases and analyst recommendation upgrades) are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are obtained for subsamples that further... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
balances provides the company with maximum safety and flexibility. Sales growth has been steady but unspectacular. As the CEO approaches retirement, investors and analysts speculate that the company will change to a more aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
literature. The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again? Author:Joseph L. Bower Publication:Journal of Management Inquiry 17, no. 4 (December 2008) Abstract Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
valuation and is commonly used in practice by stock market analysts and companies themselves. However, it is rarely taught in MBA programs or broached in valuation textbooks. Yet the application of the method raises a number of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
powerful.” While savvy negotiators and analysts generally avoid these pitfalls, the less sophisticated can go astray. Robust correctives to these misimpressions are offered and related to three different kinds of “no” in negotiation: a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
company, faced a strategically important capital allocation decision. After the exit of its private equity sponsors in 2016, HCA had to determine how best to allocate its substantial annual free cash flows among several competing alternatives. Equity View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
over consensus forecasts would be large in the next fiscal year. Our results show that historical inventory and gross margin contain information useful to forecast sales, and that equity analysts do not fully utilize this information in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509028 Iceland (A) Harvard Business School Case 709-011 In May of 2008, a team of sovereign debt analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
specifically for their analyst and investor stakeholders," an issue that needs to be addressed in order to convince mainstream investors of the company's sustainable strategy. Quantifying the value of CSR starts by answering the following... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
which carries highly divergent financial and impact potential. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-035 Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data Cowen Inc.’s broker-dealer, Cowen and Company, LLC, boasted a number of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
two questions. First, when (and why) should a company’s strategy be developed by its CEO versus by some outside analyst or other insider? Second, how does strategy interact with vision (in the sense of a strong belief about the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne