Initial Coin Offering - Publications - Faculty & Research

2010
Working Paper

When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs

By: Emilie Rose Feldman, Stuart Gilson and Belen Villalonga

We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793 analyst reports written around 62 spinoffs—a setting in which analysts' ability to inform investors is potentially very high. We find that analysts pay little attention to subsidiaries about to be... View Details

Keywords: Earnings Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Initial Public Offering; Price; Reports; Research

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September 2009
Teaching Note

Odyssey Healthcare (TN)

By: Robert F. Higgins

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Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Initial Public Offering; Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Service Operations; Revenue; Business Exit or Shutdown; Health Industry

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Purchase

Enrico helped to transform PepsiCo through a number of major initiatives including the spin-off of its fast food restaurant chains (Tricon), the acquisition of Tropicana, and the initial public View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Sep 2015
News

Ink

the coin of the realm in business strategy, too, says Benjamin Gomes-Casseres (DBA 1985). In his new book, Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations, the author defines the business remix as “the mixing of resources, assets,... View Details

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Matt Oppenheimer

example, from veterans who've led soldiers into combat in Iraq." Matt believes the school's size delivers important advantages. "My initial inclination was that HBS was too big. But the section experience gives you a strong... View Details

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Value Based Healthcare Prize - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Honors & Awards Honors & Awards Porter Prize Japan... View Details

01 Mar 2010
Op-Ed

A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

Toyota's tragic automobile recalls offer a historic opportunity for Ford's CEO Alan Mulally and General Motors' new CEO Ed Whitacre. After years of decline, they can reestablish the preeminence of American-made autos if they are wise at... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

experiment, children chose how to assign a good or bad prize to themselves and another participant by either unilaterally deciding who would get each prize or by using a fair procedure-flipping a coin in private. Older children were much... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

leaders on the cutting edge of research. The driving force behind this gathering since its inception has been Ray Goldberg, the veritable father of agribusiness. Along with his then HBS colleague John H. Davis, Goldberg coined the word in... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Jun 2023
News

Spray Canon

to construct.” Taylor Callery Taylor Callery Riley offers the various cryptocurrency-enthusiast communities as an example. “These coins are like social movements: People are getting behind them because they... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

it difficult to secure further venture capital investment. In the meantime, blockchain protocols were growing in popularity in technology circles and many blockchain projects were securing investment via Initial View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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A Network for Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The Social Enterprise Initiative is a focal point for the creativity and energy of our worldwide community. This network includes students and alumni with backgrounds in all sectors who seek to engage in socially-driven pursuits at... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

Summer offers the benefit of long, warm days—and for students, the very real opportunity to consider a potential sector or role for post-HBS plans, sometimes with the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program. (Last year, 256 students... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2016
News

Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

Fund for Leadership and Innovation has an immediate impact on the School’s ability to pursue new initiatives, and is the cornerstone of HBS’s economic model. Field-Based Learning FIELD 2 global immersions offer first-year MBA students a... View Details

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

This brings us full cycle to some of our original questions about consumer generated marketing. Is it really something "new under the sun"? Is it, for marketers, a disruptive technology in its own right, something offering... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the food chain from Bill... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

22 Sep 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

CEO of Competitiveness.com, he brings experience in nearly 200 economic development initiatives in Europe and Latin America to his World Bank job. Comparing his previous development consulting experience in emerging economies to his work... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way

offering for senior-level public education officials), and the increasing involvement of the Social Enterprise Initiative in education issues are all contributing to — and becoming familiar parts of — the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

less helpful if you don't know whether your options will get better or worse. It pays to look for strategic insight from contexts where uncertainty, risk, and change are the only constants. Military science, in particular, offers powerful... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

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