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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

Pension Investment Fund (GPIF): Incorporating Climate Risk in Investment Decisions Uncovering and Pricing Climate Risk in Long-Term Investments Daniel Schrag on the Science of Forecasting Climate Change:... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

company in January 2001. In the late 1990s, the company increased prices and lost many consumers to less expensive soup brands. Rather than bring prices back down, to maintain earnings Campbell cut costs by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

the company's business plan. The company had gone through much of its cash and needed additional funding to continue operating. At the same time, two VC investors were deciding how to proceed with their investments in Maricopa. The larger VC firm questioned Maricopa's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Science Foundation Science of Science & Innovation Policy (Sci-SIP) Award for Assessing the Impact of Non-Practicing Entities on U.S. Innovation with Umit Gurun, Scott Kominers, 2015–2021. Lauren H. Cohen : Recipient of a 2021 Top Cited Article Award from Wiley... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

http://hbr.org/product/Opening-the-Valve--From-S/an/415015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-016 Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B) The (B) case provides significant detail on Valve's initial decisions but keeps the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

  Working PapersLegislating Stock Prices Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on firm stock prices. While it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

for shareholders. However, there is a sense, expressed by John Ippolito, that there is a lack of perception in boards of directors of "what constitutes 'creating value' in the enterprise many boards are too ready to turn over the keys to the incoming CEO—then... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • February 1997 (Revised May 1998)
  • Case

Tire City, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester
A small, rapidly growing retail distributor of automotive tires must present a set of forecasted financial statements to a bank in order to obtain a five-year loan. Expected growth rates given in the case and historical financial ratios derived from recent financial... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Financing and Loans; Price; Supply Chain; Distribution Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

course, is only one of many factors that determine a film's market performance. Film characteristics such as story line, genre, and the use of special effects also affect demand. The role of directors and other creative talent could play a role. In addition, View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

ending up with huge medical bills we couldn’t pay.” Inspired by this personal experience, Rabah chose to build a career in health care. She studied biology as an undergraduate at Cornell, where she developed a strong interest in drug View Details
  • May 1997 (Revised May 2004)
  • Case

Precision Worldwide, Inc.

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
A competitor has developed and introduced a superior product that is less costly to manufacture. Precision Worldwide must decide whether to match the competitor's product, when to do so, and how to price, given that it holds a large inventory of its now inferior... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Price; Cost; Competition
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  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

model, the company would sell sequencers at a higher price to those entities that already purchased sequencers, primarily major research labs and pharmaceutical firms, but position its machine as a faster alternative to existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

exponentially since we were at HBS. I marvel at how quickly things have changed. When I started in this business, if a client wanted price and volume information, someone had to literally go to the library to consult the books put out by... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 13 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

higher." If we had allowed that to happen, then you would have been made worse off by our decision to allow kidneys to be legally sold, even though you would not sell your kidney. All of a sudden you are not eligible for the best... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

inclusion, and the introduction of option pricing and hedge funds. Please contact: specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu to access copies of retired cases for research. Current HBS Cases are available to purchase through Harvard Business Press .... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/gino_shea_deception_chapter_2012.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

wisdom of the crowd, with each product being reviewed many times (some with more than 1,000 reviews). Because of this, the way in which information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

appears afterward. Martha Lagace: It's a clever idea to tell your story through the fictional character of Jim Barton, a fledgling CIO. Why describe CIO challenges through fiction? Rob Austin, Dick Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell: Our View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace