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- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Editor's Note: Millions of Brits are going to the polls today to take part in an historic vote on the European Union that will have a huge impact on the economic, political, and social future of the United Kingdom and its relationships... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Project Runway
test of fashion creativity and skill under time constraints and other pressures. “The cameras are on you from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed,” Estrella told the San Francisco Chronicle (July 9, 2006). “My approach was to be very positive and say very... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
the role of trading in bankruptcy. We find that trading during the case leads to higher concentration of ownership, particularly among debt claims that are eligible to vote on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
and took a plunge into the unknown. A relatively small number of largely older, uneducated voters decided that the younger generations of Britons who voted to remain should instead face the growing global competition on their own rather... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive pay and severance packages at several firms implicated in the credit crisis of 2008, the executive compensation provisions in the Emergency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
and not tooting his own horn, I’ll give a vote for Michael Horn’s podcast, Future U. It’s great for anyone interested in higher ed and workforce development. —Scott Benson (MBA 2008) I’ve been listening to many of the podcasts by Mark... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
disbursements are relatively more staggered. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w14074 Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a goal-oriented model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
After I heard what had happened, I ran up to my room and tore down the signs. As it happens, I had voted for Kennedy. It was a tragic, terrible thing. I thought I would stay in the retail drug business for the rest of my life. My advice... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
of capital. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Friends in High Places Authors:Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians, and between politicians and firms, have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fever Pitch
their favorite investment, while some 1,600 students and alumni voted on awards for impact and innovation among finalists from 14 global regions. Best Investment Selected by HBS Alumni Angels StreetShares (Mid-Atlantic US Region) Mickey... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
17, 2001), which described Immelt as being so popular and well-liked at GE that, if it were put to a company-wide ballot, he would have been voted "Mr. Congeniality at the very least." Immelt revealed that he intends to increase the use... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
is not in the best interest of their investors. For example, Vanguard has participated in proxy votes at shareholder meetings. While it has mostly voted in accordance with recommendations by management, in... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. However, in subsequent years up to 2007, analysts progressively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
71 percent interest in impact-minded companies. And then Gen Z of course, is reported to take that percentage even higher. So these are the folks that are checking the kite marks on products. Kite marks are those little icons that will say, you know, fair View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
stores, or for cash withdrawals. Others finalists included George Hessler (MBA 1985), who pitched Magma Trading, a new kind of stock market for large block trades that he’s dubbed “the Costco of trading.” Aiden Feng (MBA 2016) introduced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken carved out new ways to restructure large amounts of publicly traded debt. Gilson's research suggests that the total costs associated with Milken's method of reorganizing troubled companies were as little... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
of investment management. “I think that vote captured a powerful tension inside the students,” she remarks. “They have plenty of mathematical and financial models to support the point of view that restricting the size of an ‘investable... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details