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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in fact behave as if they were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
endowment; and cash transfers made by HBS to the endowment reserve. Use of the endowment distribution is intended to support the School’s operations in a manner consistent with the intentions of donors and the terms of each gift. The University has a responsibility to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured its entire organization to deliver low prices. Wal-Mart's... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
lifestyle, these other products can add brand value and, being produced by others under license, they deliver some extra profit to the Trump organization. "In the world of representative democracy, you have to be the market share... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
occur at any time) will be something that awakes the investor that there is a real time value to money, and it might be better to get some current returns ." Konstantin Tryapitsyn suggests what might prick the bubble. "I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Publishing Platform The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier (MBA 1993) Palgrave Macmillan This candid memoir takes readers into some of the darker corners of Wall... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
increased 30% year over year. “Partly, that’s a result of feelings of oil insecurity and supply reductions,” Erika said. “But Tesla can’t fill all of the orders it’s receiving because of the high demand.” She applauded the choices and added View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
property" has been a powerful shaping force in biotech. The idea behind monetization of IP is that you don't need to actually develop a product; you can just develop a piece of IP, and then capture financial returns through licensing... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
3) there may be no trade-off between value creation and value capture when comparing business models with different degrees of openness. Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Intellectual Property: An Integrated Approach By: Fisher III, William W., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—In many organizations, the R&D, strategy, and legal functions are poorly integrated. As a consequence, firms miss opportunities to create and exploit the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
This column, which first appeared in the August 18, 1996, edition of the New York Times, was adapted from Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff's new book, Co-opetition, published last summer by Doubleday. To succeed in business you have to outsmart the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
those traders’ companies were then paying $20,000 a month. Parker thought he could provide a better service for $500 a month. He was proposing to sell $100,000 worth of debentures and stock representing 10 percent of the company, giving TDC an implied View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
Future (Currency/Doubleday), focuses on share of customer: Using the insights about what makes your most loyal customers different to maximize the value of those relationships. By the end of the decade, many marketers had come to believe... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Companies also are becoming more aware of the need to capture what data they can through first-party cookies, by creating value through content. He offers the example of the website Glossier, whose strategy... View Details