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- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
three- and five-year stock performance of these offerings. RLBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole, with economically and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors form beliefs about future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
with the largest market caps in their industries, underperform in a majority of cases the average stock in their respective sectors over the next one-, three-, five-, and 10-year periods. In fact, "top... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers to shed light on characteristic-related mispricing. During years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms, for example, we show that large firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
more likely to use equity in the transaction, and buy companies in a related industry. The market tends to react more negatively to the announcement of the acquisition of a venture capital-backed company, but the long-run View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
into an underserved market by allowing clients to invest as little as $5,000. Wealthfront doesn’t even charge a fee for assets of less than $10,000—and even after that charges a 0.25 percent fee, as opposed to fees of 2 to 3 percent by... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn to reap the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
more advantageous." This trend is so well established that a simulated long-short stock portfolio created by the researchers to take advantage of this fact earned abnormally high returns of up to 101 basis points per month. (In part, the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
bottom lines, ultimately depressing stock prices. To circumvent this problem, some firms issue "tracking stock," hoping that capital markets will perceive them much like traditional start-up... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks By: Campbell, John Y., Carolin E. Pflueger, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract—The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
even generate sufficient high quality capital-budget projects to use the available resources—and therefore go on merger-and-acquisition expeditions. The stock market is telling managers what the scarce... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
University of Illinois, Netscape became embroiled in a messy intellectual-property dispute. Despite these challenges, on its first day of trading, Netscape soared to a market capitalization of $2.1 billion. Why did Andreessen and Clark... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
of them. Investors do not regard the stock as a "growth" stock. And what about employees? They are thought by many to be left out of the distribution of the spoils almost entirely. Overlooked is the fact that the company has... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to think about more than simply selling a product. We're never going to go back to the slow and... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
contribution is positively associated with proxies for quality of accruals and governance. Next, we investigate the implications of accruals' predictive value for accrual-based market anomalies. We find that portfolios formed on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
creation, production, delivery and use of the Web, as well as toward a service delivery infrastructure. Panelist Katie Burke (HBS MBA '95) noted Web-based e-mail as a good example of how and why software is turning into a service. Web-based e-mail has become extremely... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did Hong Kong deny Alibaba's requests to list dual-class shares or to allow its partners to nominate a majority of the board of directors and, in the process, turn away a superstar in Alibaba?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne