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- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
Rawdon relates by phone. “But we were united by our vision of what the company could be.” The two spent the following months pulling together a business plan and fund-raising pitch. “My one-year anniversary at Siebel was the same day we... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
with the ungainly conglomerates assembled in the 1960s and 1970s that provided a variety of seemingly mismatched products and services. And while many consultants and investors are seeking to extend this focused model into emerging... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have a significant bargaining effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
years? Or options related to multi-year performance that happen to be cashed in a given year? Second, does this kind of transparency matter? There is little indication that investors pay much attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
transfer of wealth from public investors to the hands of business leaders, corporate insiders, and financial intermediaries." Headlines remind us of very large payouts to CEOs, regardless of their performance. (In fact, it could be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
ranks of forecasters. By 1925, Fisher wrote, "We now have nearly fourscore forecasting agencies to help the business man." Related Article An Interview With The Author Read The Interview These forecasters emphasized what today we would... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
capital, which includes private equity. So is there something nuanced or different about how you approach it on the corporate side versus the investor or private equity side? Willie: I think on the investor... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
ones. Findings: Our key counterintuitive finding is that Japanese and American founders of entrepreneurial firms are more similar than is often suggested. We first find that in both Japan and the U.S., achievement motivation is positively View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2409251 Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele By: Serafeim, George Abstract—In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
an early investor in Twitter, Weebly, Bazaarvoice, Twitch, Chegg, Demandforce and a raft of others, Maples has been on a long and profitable roll. Part of his success came from his personal experience as an entrepreneur. Having co-founded... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
diced, and parceled out the risk to investors to better set, price, and absorb it. "An ironic argument, as we have learned," he quipped. The housing boom in the 1990s was led by "strong demographics—people coming to this... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
students were welcomed into the program, Daniel Tong, Henry Tao, and Jenny Gao, and we spoke with them about their experience. Tell us a little about yourself and what your interest in climate related issues are. Jenny Gao: I’m originally... View Details
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
challenges related to climate change, a space we were all passionate about. After a few weeks and dozens of calls with experts, we landed on using robotics and AI for verification of forest carbon offsets. Forests are an excellent carbon... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
firms less pessimistically, and eventually they assess them optimistically. Furthermore, we find that more experienced analysts and analysts at higher-status brokerage houses are the first to shift the relation between CSR ratings and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
drop is caused by a liquidity event, the situation may represent a profitable investment opportunity. Investors must assess the likely cause of the recent price drops in the leveraged loan market and determine an appropriate investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
debtor-in-possession financing. United and Delta together raised almost $3.5 billion in DIP financing in their bankruptcies.) Some argue that putting earlier investors at the back of the line is unfair, but Gilson says that giving a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
responsibilities include overseeing finances and operations, helping set and implement company strategy, fundraising/keeping investors updated, business development, legal work, interviewing/hiring/onboarding employees, and working... View Details