Reservation Price - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715416-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-043 Oberoi Hotels: Train Whistle in the Tiger Reserve Celebrated as one of the world's premiere luxury hotel brands, Oberoi Hotels attracts and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

stagnant. By 2007, declining home prices and rising rates on adjustable rate mortgages triggered a wave of foreclosures, causing devastation to millions of Americans. Firms like Lehman Brothers pursued an aggressive strategy of borrowing... View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

this new environment.” At the outset of the crisis, most restaurants had only two to three weeks of operating reserves and those reserves were quickly exhausted. With no end date in sight of mandatory... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Externalities? By: Sergey Chernenko & Adi Sunderam DEC 2018 How do cash policies affect stock returns? A mutual fund that uses its cash reserves to accommodate outflows will lower the volatility of its underlying holdings by buffering... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

question. What follows are six ways to make your threats more credible in negotiation. 1. Increase your costs of not following through on your threat Imagine that you're thinking about bidding to acquire another company that would be of great value to your firm. Your... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Robin Greenwood | About

the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of the Business Economics PhD program, and head of the Finance Unit (2018-2021). He was a previous member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

use of off-balance sheetactivities that avoided reserve and capital requirements, high investment bank leverage,and in ated housing price beliefs. By contrast the bottom 5 factors were strategic default by... View Details

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

want to make sure to pronounce everyone’s name correctly, and encourage students to let you know if you are mispronouncing their name. Reach out directly to students whose names you find difficult to pronounce and ask for guidance. View Details

10 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 10

http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2013.837889?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Price of Wall Street's Power By: Mukunda, Gautam Abstract—Over and over again, executives make... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

involved or started a number of entrepreneurial ventures. While working three days a week at AOL, he bootstrapped Compare.com , which enabled customers to compare prices on everything from PCs to mortgages. Later, He worked for Open... View Details

20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

frameworks are complicated. The processes that companies install to develop their strategy are highly complex, hundreds of slides, dozens of analyses, many competing frameworks and considerations. I meet many managers who see strategic thinking as View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

connection between the present and the future. Current decisions are affected by what people expect the future to bring. For example, business managers set the prices of their products—at least in part—based on expectations. More broadly,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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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: What We Know and What We Don’t... View Details

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

Pure Food and Drug Act; breakup of beef trust Excise Tax imposed on corporations Tariff Act forces corporations to open their books for government inspection Influence: High 10 1910 s 19 Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal View Details

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

Twenty-year-old entrepreneurs became mega-millionaires, but not for long. It turned out that the “new economy” of that time was a house of cards. It’s a good time to ask the question again. Policies of the Federal Reserve in concert with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has hit many companies hard—some to the point of considering bankruptcy—Antill’s research findings may help business leaders make important decisions to avoid the high price of liquidation and choose a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

history. Its stock, suffering the typical ups and downs of entertainment companies during the pandemic, had recovered and was at about the same price as when Chapek took over from “legendary” CEO Bob Iger two years earlier. He was aware,... View Details