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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
payments, and deferred taxes are incrementally value-relevant but that only the impairment of goodwill and deferred taxes reveal new information. Our results indicate that mandatory IFRS adoption alters investors' beliefs about stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
or compensation are either non-existent or academic. And the founder and largest shareholder is very active in governance matters. Then the public offering occurs. Regulation or law requires changes in behavior. Outside members of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
stock price is suffering because of delayed and disappointing results. Removing the controller, however, is proving difficult because he is related to the company's founder. What approaches can the investor take to deal with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
refurbished parts was inaccurate and resulted in profits being shifted from one segment to another. Prior to his report to the SEC, Mayhem had reported his concerns to his managers and to the company’s internal compliance hotline. At about the same time, IGT announced... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
intimacy, and community offered by direct-to-consumer marketing will have an impact on every industry and intermediary," Deighton predicted. Supermarkets may have "dodged a bullet" for now, but direct-to-consumer marketing... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
with an intensive multi-session program that includes instruction on financial modeling, research, and on-campus stock pitch presentations to investment firms. Through a lottery system, a number of the Winternship students also... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
experiences and services at scale, from the smartphone to the desktop to interactive TV." —Bob Lord (MBA 1990), CEO, AOL Networks "Cloud storage will become more specialized (versus generic services like Dropbox). I think we'll begin to see more cloud storage View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
answering this neutral, open-ended question: “Briefly describe one event from today that stands out in your mind.” “It was incredible to have nearly 12,000 day-by-day reports offering a window into the positive and negative things that... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
capitalism powered by private enterprise and appropriately regulated offers the best hope for continuing to improve living standards and the well-being of people across the world. Lagace: What’s an example or two of businesses that are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
usage; however, customer-to-customer communications tended to increase personal-use engagement across latent states and in both data sets. The findings suggest that firms offering digital services should pay attention to how the mode of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
smarter trades, according to the findings of a study by Soltes, an assistant professor at HBS, and David Solomon, a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. To conduct the research, the duo obtained investor meeting records from a mid-cap company traded on the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
continues today. Prices are extremely low, ships are being scrapped, and private equity firms are moving in to invest. Against The Wind The bulk shipping boom-bust trend offers sound advice to investors. "When rates are low and when... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
such as the new iWatch, and I'm offered a service that will alert my doctor of any health abnormalities via the device , I'm going to agree to that. My health will win out over privacy in that case." We have learned to live with and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
over the previous year. The company, which employs about one thousand workers worldwide, went public in July 1999; an article that appeared last February in Red Herring's online edition (www.redherring.com) noted that TIBCO's stock had... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508056 INSEAD Harvard Business School Case 308-009 In the spring of 2008, INSEAD offered a one-year MBA, PhD, executive MBA, and non-degree management education programs to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
university storage facility, benefits from student energy. They buzz about the expansive lab space, which is stocked with 3D printers, circuit board builders, and a wall full of electronic parts and wires. Two other sections of the... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
billionaire Russian investor Roustam Tariko, has proposed an out of court exchange offer for CEDC's publicly traded bonds and investment in CEDC's stock that would give him full ownership of the company. If... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty