Investment Evaluation - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

recognized as a result of the bubble—have been those of the analysts who worked in the investment banks. The banks employ two kinds of analysts: Those who issue recommendations about individual firms, and those who try to get investors to... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Latin America - Global Activities 2020

needs—everybody benefits. Ben Roth: Another stream of work is thinking about new kinds of credit products Fondo could offer and evaluating both the new products and some existing ones to understand their impact on borrowers. For example,... View Details

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

that are thoughtfully resourced and leave a smaller environmental footprint. Investors are paying attention, too, with impact investing hitting $60 billion in 2015. Attention to the negative impacts of work on health is also on the rise.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting

Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates... View Details

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53441 forthcoming Operations Research Letters Orienteering for Electioneering By: Kallenbach, Jonah, Robert Kleinberg, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial optimization problem that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Oct 2019
Blog Post

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

organization,” Roberts suggests. 4. Keep confronting racial bias in hiring Companies should train managers to root out racial bias from their hiring and recruitment processes. They should also invest in retaining black professionals, in... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

perspective" that emphasizes cumulative investments over relatively long periods of time. Recognizing that instead of evaluating investments in R&D or new factories on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

from the human CEO over those they attributed to AI, suggesting a deep mistrust of algorithms. To explore this phenomenon further, Choudhury and his team conducted a second study that aimed to control for those perceptions. Researchers asked a second group of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

14 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Making the MBA Degree More Accessible

commitments aimed at reducing financial barriers that often prevent students from underrepresented minority groups from applying to and attending HBS: Launch a need-based waiver of the application fee for all prospective students in all admissions rounds. View Details

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

framework can be used to evaluate how globalization is likely to change the performance of specific markets and thus assess the associated risks and opportunities. Course Content and Organization Most of the cases and class discussions... View Details

05 Mar 2014
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When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

Internet (mobile) businesses and users (have) already evaluated the benefits (and) analysts' valuations can be more predictable " Shankar N. Mandapaka added: "The earlier dot.com bubble was due to lack of proper valuation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

Manuscript Collections Printed Collections Visual Collections Secondary Resources Credits Bacheller, Irving. Keeping up with Lizzie; Charge It (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911 and 1912). Full text available as a networked resource. Darrow, Edward N. A Treatise on... View Details

28 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

instructors and students to build a framework of analysis that enables them to understand the challenges of international trade and investment and master the opportunities they represent. This framework is based on a systematic View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

unfavorable expectations face an additional constraint: their prices and first-party content investment need to be such that low (zero) participation equilibria are eliminated. This additional constraint typically leads them to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

firms and shareholders. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51128 Harvard Business School Case 418-019 Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi Inspired by research linking happiness and productivity, Hitachi had View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account both direct... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

July 2002 (Revised August 2003)
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Unilever Superannuation Fund vs. Merrill Lynch, The

By: Andre F. Perold and Joshua Musher

In 2001, the Unilever Superannuation Fund sued Merrill Lynch for damages of 130 million British pounds. Over the period 1977 to 1998, the Unilever Fund had significantly underperformed the benchmark, and its trustees contended that the poor returns resulted from... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Performance Evaluation; Agreements and Arrangements; Customer Relationship Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Management; Risk Management; Legal Liability; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom

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01 Mar 2023
News

The Exchange: Micro Management

Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

company seems to need a "perfect certitude" of success before investing in something new, Kanter said. "Companies ask me to talk to them about innovation, and the first thing they ask is, 'Who else is doing it?'" Anger... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for... View Details