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  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

appealed to Weeks when he arrived at Corning as a Price Waterhouse consultant after graduating from Lehigh University. “I was impressed with the people and what the company stood for,” he recalls. The feeling was mutual: Corning asked him... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

taking place with another company. Using a third party puts distance between the company and the candidate and gives both sides the freedom to discontinue discussions without damaging their egos and reputations." Another risk that directors face, he notes, is a... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

described moments when they had to summon their resolve to fight back against, for example, short-term moves that would lift the company’s stock price at the expense or its overall health or that would cause... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

market. There are no national furniture retail chains, making market penetration easier. IKEA's location selection expertise and their established global supply chains enable them to offer exceptional category-killer prices that are... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807029 SUN Brewing Harvard Business School Case 207-022 The Khemka family of India, founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing, faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei Sanyo's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

the decline in the number of state-owned companies, however, is the way they are structured. "Some of the largest state-owned enterprises are becoming almost like private corporations," says Musacchio. "They are traded in stock exchanges... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

that most models haven't accounted for this. Why is that? A: The typical horizon-mismatch model studies a manager whose tendency is to take relatively myopic actions (for example, using resources to pump the stock View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

Under a carbon tariff, foreign firms with a production cost advantage adopt clean technology at a lower emissions price than domestic firms, and foreign entry can increase in emissions price when foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2011
  • Teaching Note

Citigroup's Exchange Offer (TN)

By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for 210009. View Details
Keywords: Equity; Government and Politics; Stocks; Price; Capital; Banks and Banking; Performance Evaluation; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital Markets; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The impact on stock price has been much less significant, and this could be attributed to stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-020.pdf Stock Price Fragility... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

their innovation performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467 Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

shareholders have lost an "enormous" amount of wealth? Designing regulatory systems is very tricky and could result in the "unintended consequences" of slippery CEO pay efforts, he observed. "I think society pays a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Short Takes

can be an inflationary influence if a committee feels pressured to raise its own top executive's pay in order to keep up with the competition. In addition, the sample companies favored the inclusion of stock options in CEO pay packages as... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

associated with a 0.5% increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during the current View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit superior long-term stock price performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace