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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6747 Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
meant that the manufacturing floor was increasingly allocating more space to microprocessors. As that more profitable market grew, Intel became a microprocessor company, not a memory company. These operating level decisions changed the de... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
prohibiting others from doing so, presumably in return for favors. Some favored international funds managers with investments spread across time zones who have a continuing stream of fresh investment information participate in after-hours "arbitrage" trading... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
delayed price discovery). This isolates a setting wherein observed strategic trading behavior more likely reflects insiders' private information regarding goodwill, as opposed to other (non-goodwill related) economic performance. Overall,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
First off, apply – go for it! It’s one of the best decisions I ever made. If you do decide to apply and go to business school, I would also consider doing something totally different career wise, such as an externship, for 3-4 months, if... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
invasive surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy for cancer, for example) with drugs that can palliate and perhaps cure genetically-linked diseases. But like most new technologies, these are hugely expensive to develop, and initially, to manufacture. Remember the View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
breakeven point. In this note, we introduce the concept of breakeven analysis and show how it is used to guide marketing decision making. This analysis helps students assess the feasibility of proposed fixed and variable marketing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
the food that supermarkets and manufacturers and farmers can’t sell, recover it, and give it to people who could use a donation or reduced price meal. We are also trying to reverse decades of misguided thinking about what constitutes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
gotta go. "His point was that we were talking, talking, talking. Let's make a decision and go," says Beeninga. "But Gerry was also someone who really listened, instead of just waiting for his turn to talk. He would say, 'What does Barry... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
benefit from acting more like museum curators. "Many museums have enormous collections, so the possibilities are nearly endless," he says. "And most museum patrons don't know anywhere nearly enough to make these decisions on their own,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding stock grants without... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
become major players in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Collectively, these investment decisions could have a major long-run impact on South Africa's economic growth and political stability. South African policymakers needed to decide what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
Download full syllabus 5-6 hrs Module 1 Design Understand the service-profit chain and the differences between augmentation and curation in service design. Evaluate sustainable pricing strategies and discover how operational transparency... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-034.pdf Making the Gambler's Fallacy Disappear: The Role of Experience Authors:Gregory M. Barron and Stephen Leider Abstract Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
decision score. This allows us to observe the local effect of samples in which we drop the best recipients and the worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of funding that alleviates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
importance. The paper explores how this heuristic can produce erroneous inferences and influence broader beliefs about decision-makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54771 forthcoming RAND Journal of Economics The View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18
influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define collectively as toolmaking. Using prior literature... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- July 2019 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Backstage at Boston Ballet
By: David G. Fubini, Ryan Raffaelli, Begum Agca Okutgen and Julia Kelley
This case asks students to consider how to prioritize goals when placed in a new leadership role. In August 2014, Meredith “Max” Hodges became the youngest Executive Director (ED) in the Boston Ballet’s 51-year history. In her first year, she was able to claim several... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Managing Change; Strategy Execution; Priorities; Arts; Buildings and Facilities; Decision Making; Theater Entertainment; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Marketing; Price; Fine Arts Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Education Industry; United States; North America; Massachusetts; Boston; New England; Northeastern United States
Fubini, David G., Ryan Raffaelli, Begum Agca Okutgen, and Julia Kelley. "Backstage at Boston Ballet." Harvard Business School Case 420-005, July 2019. (Revised November 2022.)