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  • 02 Aug 2024
  • HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

In the midst of this crisis, VHSS, the German Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

down from the semicircular banks of seats in Aldrich 9. Price tags (retailers wouldn't have to re-mark them for discounted sales). Billboards. Sheet music (self-turning scores). Eyeglasses with news headlines projected inside the lens... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 08 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

which are bonds whose proceeds are used for environmentally sensitive purposes. After an overview of the U.S. corporate and municipal green bonds markets, we study pricing and ownership patterns using a simple framework that incorporates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

made possible by a shifting "mix" featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity. Skyrocketing price-earnings ratios of information-rich corporations are a natural result of this. Growing ratios of market-to-book value that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

that employer’s name on their curriculum vitae? “You have this great name on your CV, and suddenly it goes from being an asset to a liability,” says George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

industries in its preferred direction. We find that exogenous price shocks proved particularly helpful in this regard. The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose Authors:Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code

By: Kristin Mugford, William Vrattos and Radhika Kak
In 2016, India passed a new bankruptcy law (IBC) to counter a brewing bank crisis and increased corporate distress. Homebuilder Jaypee Infratech, one of India largest distressed companies (the “dirty dozen”) began restructuring under the IBC in 2017. Two years later,... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decisions; Judgments; Voting; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Public Sector; Asset Pricing; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Bonds; Investment Return; Price; Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Bids and Bidding; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; India; Delhi
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  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

patients, and 12% of total Medicare spending are associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49218 Stock Price Synchronicity and Material... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets, private banking, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

in the month of July. A sudden drop in capital market prices for an asset class can be caused by news affecting fundamental values or by a widespread liquidity shock. The implication of a shock to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

potential approaches to establishing evidence of social influence in partially endogenous networks, and they may be especially persuasive in combination. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-136.pdf Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25120&i=25122&cs=0b17ff7f3d16c64e4a6b72b71b876054 2013 pub Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes? By: Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica Abstract—Does providing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 May 2017
  • News

Facing the Board

began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM)?... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

should be designed to fit the corporate strategy. Although the results are capable of alternative interpretations, analysis provides no support for the view that "lean and mean" headquarters lead to better performance. Asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Case Study: The Credit Bureau

same house for a long time, and in that world it made sense to own the same sofa for 10 years. The new generation has been forced to buy fixed assets even though they know they’re going to be moving before long. For them, the furniture... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
  • 26 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

the company? The 409a is an independent valuation of common shares. But it’s also a critical metric in determining your equity grant price and future tax implications if and when you decide to sell your shares. 2. Plan for Pivotal Job... View Details