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  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

Management (forthcoming) Abstract Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that when an index of investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

transmitting information from equity to debt holders. This provides a novel argument as to why information contained in stock prices affects the real value of a corporation. It also allows us to make empirical predictions regarding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

corporate governance in India and, indeed, in Asia. In our research, we ask why it is that Infosys developed a reputation for being committed to shareholder value creation in a country, India, where... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally changing the business's ecosystem. This transformation is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders are facilitated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

holding out as a strategic but minority shareholder in Endesa; or negotiating an agreement with Enel and/or E.ON. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210029-PDF-ENG AME Learning Inc. Thomas Eisenmann and Ann... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

From Where We Stand

career. The inherent value of the Harvard MBA enables you to take game-changing risks that others might not be able to avail themselves of. You will always be able to find a "job." Therefore, when a chance is presented to take a role or... View Details
  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

even value-destructive practices in order to maintain it or inflate it further? And does anyone really believe that shareholders are the only constituency that matters: not customers, not employees, not the community or the country or... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Making the Case for Leadership

company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • June 2025
  • Case

Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
On January 27, 2025, the head of a relatively small hedge fund named Late Apex Partners sent a highly critical letter to the board of directors of Vail Resorts, the world’s largest ski resort operator. In his letter, and the 88-slide presentation that accompanied his... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Governance; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Leading Change; Valuation; Investment Activism; Climate Change; Management Succession; Financial Management; Risk Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Travel Industry; United States; Australia; Canada
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  • 08 Aug 2018
  • News

Getting Life Back in Balance

profit, decently” inspired him to consider what he really wanted to do with the next chapter in life. He also credits the curriculum with integrating corporate ethics and values throughout, and challenging various ways of thinking and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

exchanges. Shareholder protection strongly predicted exchange success, even in countries with high levels of venture capital activity, patenting, and financial market development. Second-tier exchanges in countries with better View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

leave big business in 1970 to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity with SABO, a small manufacturer of lawn-mower machinery with a market value of some 6 million deutsche marks. "I was particularly interested in SABO because of its... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

challenges, should business stay in its comfort zone and focus on increasing shareholder value, as many would argue? Fortunately, some businesses can do good simply by doing well, as General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) pointed... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace