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  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on structured products were a historic... View Details
Keywords: by Staff

    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

    Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
    • 11 Sep 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: September 11

    they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly fresh look at how and when individual leaders really can make a difference. View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Jul 2024
    • In Practice

    The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

    created risk mitigation strategies to deal with China. They must now do the same for the United States. William C. Kirby is the T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
    • 07 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Biotech

    heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
    • 08 Sep 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

    training, and a master touch with the iPod world, and ceaseless curiosity . Put them in the same room, watch what happens . Get out of the way." Whatever else is needed, C. J. Cullinane suggests that "Jobs will have to be... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer
    • 30 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

    On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 07 Jan 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    Is the World Really Flat?

    effects" (Alex Evans). "It really doesn't matter whether the world is flat or not. Most value is added by the exploiters, not the creators, and that works in both (flat and non-flat) environments" (Gerald Nanninga). These... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 09 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

    economic future? How have forecasting methods changed over time? What makes one forecaster more popular than another? I chose to research these questions by focusing on the first generation of economic forecasters—those who founded their... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 May 2020
    • In Practice

    Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

    service centers, which are primarily owned by physicians. Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration. Amy C. Edmonson: New ways to balance prevention and sick care... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 16 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

    Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard and Tufts University... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Aug 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: August 17

    expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
    • Case

    Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure

    By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson
    In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details
    Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America
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    • 02 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 2, 2016

    forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use to draw causal inferences... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 13

    http://ssrn.com/abstract=1238158 Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game Authors:Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen Abstract Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 30 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 30

    U.S. Multinational Firm Activity Authors:C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Dec 2021
    • News

    What's the Word?

    She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • Web

    Publications - Faculty & Research

    Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce? By: William Kerr To remain competitive in the internet-of-things era, should the CEO of SolidTech Innovations, a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire... View Details
    • Web

    Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

    Administration Luis M. Viceira George E. Bates Professor William C. Vrattos Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Jonathan L. Wallen Assistant Professor of Business Administration Royce G. Yudkoff MBA... View Details
    • 29 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 29

    Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace