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- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
the nation's 54,000 foundations, whose combined assets total approximately $370 billion. If these foundations are willing to embrace this concept as an important priority and "to dedicate substantial resources to developing new View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- January 2011 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Matrix Capital Management (A)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Cash Flow; Stock Shares; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 211-017, January 2011. (Revised January 2015.)
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- Web
Investment analyst reports: banks included in library research | Baker Library
LSEG Workspace; Bloomberg CapitalCube North America LSEG Workspace Credit Suisse* Global LSEG Workspace Deutsche Bank* Global LSEG Workspace DNB Markets Norway LSEG Workspace Edelweiss Asia Pacific Bloomberg Evercore ISI North America... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
don’t have to go through an intermediary to access these choices. Some people would contend that the consumer has more control.” Similarly, consumers can have a greater say over how their financial assets are managed—from opting for a... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
company to transfer assets and liabilities to certain so-called special purpose entities (SPEs). According to the Powers report, which was published by a special committee of Enron's board after the company entered bankruptcy protection... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 18 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap
moderated by HBS Professor Kristin Mugford. Mr. Toy spoke in detail about his vast turnaround experiences and when asked about current trends stated, “Currently the market is doing pretty well, so there’s not as much restructuring needed.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue faltering financial institutions. Law-makers instructed the panel to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by... View Details
- Web
Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Marketing track. Introduction to Creating Brand Value ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! New Creating Brand Value $1,850 Next 6-week session starts April... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
firms—and how to work with other market participants. How they answered the question: Alpha Architect quickly realized that the robo-advisor service was not going to be the primary focus of the company, which considers itself to be a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This entity could be chartered by the United Nations and established as... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
the payout rate—typically around 5 percent of the endowment’s prior year-end market value —that can be withdrawn and used to support activities in accordance with the donor’s intentions and the terms of each gift. A large majority of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
This was part of Nike’s strategy to blend digital technology with its physical products, fostering a fitness and wellness ecosystem. Nike soon realized, however, that its market position in the FuelBand was not defensible. The wearable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number of customers of any If you're... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
But they are riskier than the stock market, so cryptocurrency markets are dominated by speculators or traders. Another constituent is the long-term investors, who take a long-horizon macro view on these View Details
- Career Coach
Whit Collier
invitation to reflect together. Whit has a deep and broad background, starting with his years within Equity Analyst and Portfolio Manager roles. He invested successfully within many market environments, and can share insights from merging... View Details
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Facing Job Loss? More Skills Meant Faster Recovery in Uganda | Working Knowledge
group seemed an ideal cohort to revisit. Notably, Uganda had two strict lockdowns, one in April and May of 2020 and a second in June and July of 2021, giving researchers uniform specifics to study for everyone in the group. In surveys, the researchers collected labor... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
P&G recently reported the strongest earnings in its long history, and its stock price has doubled since 2000. Key ingredients in the company's resurgence include innovation, micromarketing, and an emphasis on nurturing talent. Notes Lafley, "Our View Details
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Bloomberg Research Portal | Baker Library
Help Center Bloomberg Research Portal What information is available in the Bloomberg Research Portal? The Bloomberg Research Portal (BRC) is a gateway for accessing aggregated research from over 1,500 providers, including brokers, market... View Details