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  • Research Summary

Investigating the Economic Role of Mergers (with Erik Stafford)

What is the economic role of mergers? We investigate this issue by performing a comparative study of mergers and other forms of corporate investment, at the industry and firm levels. In our framework, merger activity is motivated by both firm- and industry-level... View Details
  • November 1999
  • Case

Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)

By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly traded corporations in Brazil, looking at the effects of equity purchases by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) on firm View Details
  • 07 Feb 2018
  • Video

Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness

  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In May, Hall convened what he hopes will be a yearly conference of scholars now working in the burgeoning field of incentive design, which draws lessons from both microeconomics and behavioral science and is being... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 10 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li & George Serafeim
  • March 2007
  • Article

Local Company Politics: A Proposal

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
Corrupt politicians, and poor government more generally, are commonly viewed as a primary barrier to economic progress. The roots to these problems run deep in many political systems across the developing world, and attempts at reform have rarely found much success.... View Details
Keywords: Behavior
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Overview

Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
  • September 2008 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Boston Teacher Residency: Developing a Strategy for Long-term Impact

By: Stacey M. Childress, Geoff Eckman Marietta and Sara Suchman
In June 2008, Jesse Solomon, the founding director of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), faced an important decision about the organization's strategic direction. Since its founding in 2003, 125 of its graduates had joined the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and BTR had... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Teaching; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Business Strategy; Education Industry; Boston
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  • 20 Dec 2006
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The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

    William E. Fruhan

    Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University.  He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of... View Details

    Keywords: aircraft; airline; chemical; electronics; grocery; medical supplies; oil ＆ gas; pharmaceuticals; retailing; steel
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    Accounting & Management - Doctoral

    individual firms; rewarding and monitoring the performance of managers; formulating, executing and evaluating strategy by firm managers; understanding the profitability of suppliers, products, customers, distribution channels, and... View Details
    • July 2021 (Revised October 2021)
    • Case

    Allianz Customer Centricity: Is Simplicity the Way Forward?

    By: Eva Ascarza and Emilie Billaud
    This case explores the tradeoffs between product personalization and simplicity as companies grow. The case presents an opportunity to understand whether and how each of these approaches enables and/or limits companies’ abilities to provide customer satisfaction while... View Details
    Keywords: Simplicity; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customization and Personalization; Customer Satisfaction; Performance Efficiency; Strategy; Insurance Industry; Europe; Germany
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    Do Appearances Matter? The Impact of EPS Accretion and Dilution on Stock Prices

    There is a widespread concern among practitioners and corporate managers that transactions which result in changes in future earnings-per-share (EPS) have real effects on stock prices, irrespective of whether these changes reflect differences in future cash flows.  As... View Details
    • February 2023
    • Article

    Climate Solutions Investments

    By: Alex Cheema-Fox, George Serafeim and Hui (Stacie) Wang
    An increasing number of companies are providing products and services that help reduce carbon emissions in the economy. We develop a methodology to identify those companies and create a sample of publicly listed climate solutions companies allowing us to study their... View Details
    Keywords: Decarbonization; Climate Finance; Climate Impact; Climate Risk; Environment; Sustainability; Carbon Emissions; Electric Vehicles; Energy; Renewables; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Emerging Markets; Investment Portfolio
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    Finance for Senior Executives

    Benefits By examining corporate finance from both internal and external perspectives, this executive finance program provides a solid grounding in the fundamentals of finance. You will build the skills and confidence to immediately apply... View Details
    • 09 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Economics of Structured Finance

    Keywords: by Joshua D. Coval, Jakub Jurek & Erik Stafford

      Reinventing State Capitalism

      In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

      • 22 Sep 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

      Although many companies aspire to promote easy interaction and coordination across departments, office locations, and pay scales, the "boundaryless" organization—like the paperless office—hasn't materialized. The corporate silo is alive... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
      • 16 Sep 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: September 16, 2008

      ethical dilemma for managers: Is it appropriate to let mere social category lines interfere with profit maximization? Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-033.pdf Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship Authors:Paul... View Details