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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
Laureate Eugene Fama that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles. Greenwood and his colleagues used stock return data gathered from a variety of US industries and a gamut of international stock market sectors. They analyzed 40... View Details
- July 2010 (Revised April 2016)
- Teaching Note
Major League Baseball Advanced Media: America's Pastime Goes Digital
By: Anita Elberse
Teaching Note for 510092. View Details
Keywords: Sports; Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Revenue; Price; Sports Industry; Web Services Industry
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
this mission, Wellthy should also change the basis of competition with its pricing model. Fortunately for Wellthy, C-suite decision makers are of the right demographic to personally appreciate the problem... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the stock View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
research by Harvard Business School Professors Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson begs to differ. Financial crises, even ones as calamitous as the 2007-2008 banking meltdown, are surprisingly predictable to those who know the warning signs. “Three years of rapid... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
“Predictions are risky, especially about the future,” according to a popular expression. Still, business is inescapably about the future—that’s what managers’ decisions are about. In the current crisis, we have daily grand predictions... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
are never too old to be surprised." Welch is a famously hard-nosed executive, and if anyone could have been expected to do his homework, it would have been him. But was Welch correct in viewing the decision as a true surprise, an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
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principles to guide it. This is the challenge. Managers must rise to it, for they are the force at the center of the storm." Managerial Decision Analysis Series four new titles by David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. (Course... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by doubling its share View Details
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Southwest Airlines: In a Different World (TN)
By: James L. Heskett and W. Earl Sasser
Teaching Note for 910419. View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
joint vision and problem-solving process, information sharing, and generally moving away from the “lowest common denominator” pricing issues that had defined their interactions previously. From 1987, when Muccio initiated the changes, to... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
phrase that has been defined as a "state of rational apprehension that does not result in appropriate action." In her brilliant study of the disastrous decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, sociologist Diane Vaughan... View Details
- January 2008
- Teaching Note
Credit Risk: Valuing Risky Debt & CDOs (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Teaching Note for [208111] and [208113]. View Details
- February 1995
- Teaching Note
Corporate Financial Management: Options Exercises (TN)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Teaching Note for (9-293-095). View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
participation—or closed. This paper reviews factors that motivate decisions to open or close mature platforms. At the platform provider and sponsor levels, these decisions entail 1) interoperating with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
OuterLink Corporation (A)
By: Josh Lerner and Brenda Chia
Zero Stage Capital is addressing a troubled investment in OuterLink Corp., which has a capital deficit of $30 million and was written off by all but one of its investors as a victim of the technology bubble. The venture organization must decide whether to shutter the... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Decisions; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Price Bubble; Investment; Financial Services Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Brenda Chia. "OuterLink Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-059, September 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
look more like a full-blown auction. Another defining feature is that there are multiple interests—in the fence example, price is important but so are quality and timeliness. A third feature of a negotiauction, and maybe the most... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-065.pdf Catering through Nominal Share View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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extricate the United States from the war in Vietnam, Howard realized his ability to influence decisions within such a large organization was limited. He wanted instead to “build small organizations into larger ones,” so after finishing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed reservations about this approach,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett