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- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case studies. But he wasn't given the... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
infringing on them—and Marshall was considered a favorable place to sue, since the town had a habit of ruling in the plaintiffs’ favor. While researching patent suits, Cohen was struck by just how much... View Details
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
Social networks matter for more than just efficient Internet communication. They're also crucial for the strong performance of stock recommendations by analysts, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of... View Details
- 31 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Organizational Designs and Innovation Streams
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- March 2022
- Teaching Note
Asian Corporate Governance Association: Stemming a 'Race to the Bottom' by Stock Exchanges? (TN)
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
management in sustainable investment funds has grown more than 40 percent. At the same time, the number of patents issued for green technologies has increased significantly. According to Cohen and his colleagues, 5,251 green patents were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Their Way.” There appears to be a disconnect between the above material and where the Class of 2007 has chosen to work. Once again, two-thirds of the MBA graduates are working in consulting and in the financial services arena. I sense little, if any, movement View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that no one else does” That's exactly what Cohen has been doing for the last three years in the MBA field course Stock Pitching, which he co-teaches with Christopher J. Malloy, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management.... View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
stocks by 2.69 percent annually. But in cases where the portfolio manager actually attended school with the senior officer of a firm, working toward the same major, the connected stocks outperformed non-connected stocks View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
“Office Hours” series. During “Office Hours,” HBS experts field questions from Instagram users, responding through short videos. Cohen studies finance and innovation, producing research and courses about topics including fintech, asset... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and... View Details
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
A member of the Executive Education staff spoke recently with HBS Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O'Reilly, developers of the program Leading Change and Organizational Renewal. In that discussion they describe their thinking about... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
"feeling tone" he engendered around himself. He truly—passionately—believed you could learn from anybody. Because ordinary people knew that, they taught him all they could. Humility was a trait which no one ever accused Charles... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 30 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash
fun. He wants to help others,” Roche recalls. The paper’s co-authors include Annamaria Conti, an associate professor at IE Business School; Vansh Gupta, an analyst at Charles River Associates who participated as an undergraduate student... View Details
- May 2022
- Case
Byte
By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly Baden and Julia Kelley
In January 2021, Byte co-founders Scott Cohen and Blake Johnson reflected on how far their Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer (DTC) orthodontics company had come since launching its clear aligners just a little over two years earlier. Cohen and Johnson were both... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- News
How U.S. laws protecting America’s best ideas are killing innovation
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
listen empathetically, welcome input, and rally the workforce around a common goal, according to a recent study by a team of researchers including Harvard Business School Professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller, who analyzed... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald