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- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
allocation. Investors who care about the volatility of their portfolio should factor in their decisions the time horizon of the corporation. That generates a need for more data that help investors separate companies that are... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
investors. Did you learn anything unexpected about who they are, the impact they have? Shawn Cole and Rob Zochowski: Impact investors seek to create impact, and many investors viewed seeding new funds as an extension of their impact, in addition to the View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
need stars and should not overpay, either in money or in time. In other words, effective hiring and selection in sales is about building the right portfolio of talent. This has actionable implications. Focus on how the salesperson makes a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
writes, "Secretive and far from pristine, the industry [hedge funds] has long been notorious for providing scant information (if any at all) and for suspect fundraising practices."282 Research indicates that long-term investors should reduce their View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
the product? In Europe, consumers in 13 different countries have 13 different preferences for the texture and taste of tomato soup. In addition, a company may decide to offer a product completely outside its "known" product line: In Japan, Coca-Cola's View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
executives should invest in talent. In allocating resources, should they focus on building talent or acquiring superstar talent? Elberse says strong evidence suggests that it is hard to find long-term success without having a strategy... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
(Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value of such tradeoffs—the transaction utility (Thaler, 1985; 1999)-depends on whether the allocation occurs within a particular social... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
less risky than value at long horizons for equity-only investors. Long-horizon aggressive investors who have access to bills and bonds increase their allocation to both value stocks and growth stocks at long horizons, but they do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
simplicity of accepting an equal split with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder equity. We test the predictions of the theory on a proprietary dataset comprised of 1,476 founders in 511 entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
perspectives on how to allocate water, the institutional mechanisms for doing so, and the potential responses of agricultural producers to the changing marketplace. Is now the time to double down on farming in the Central Valley, shift to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
financial reports have strong implications for firms' future returns: a portfolio that shorts "changers" and buys "non-changers" earns up to 188 basis points per month (over 22% per year) in abnormal returns in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
CSC fits into IBM's broader corporate citizenship portfolio and IBM's globalization strategy. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409106 Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A) Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
that RCMs are more precise at allocating firm heterogeneous effects to model slopes and intercepts than standard regression models. We also discuss RCMs’ possible limitations due to sample size requirements, nonconvergence problems, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
care Over these challenging times, the need for organizations that form part of the social support net is key. Yet, it is at these times that social impact organizations are the most vulnerable. The first crunch being faced by organizations across sectors is... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
"treated" with electronic monitoring is 13% (40% lower). We convince ourselves that the estimates are causal using peculiarities of the Argentine setting. For example, we have almost as much information as the judges have when deciding on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
so that vast amounts of data can be captured and analyzed in order to improve the allocation and use of natural resources. Working with Microsoft and Cisco, Living PlanIT is doing this through its Urban Operating SystemTM—a unified,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Describes how Royal DSM NV, an $8 billion dollar global corporation, leveraged information technology to enable a major corporate portfolio transformation between 2000 and 2006. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne